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Marching us to war under false pretenses (but for their own reasons)
October 22, 2004Opinion The recent report by the Iraq weapons inspector prompted some commentators to fall into the “blame it on the CIA” trap that the Bush administration laid. For instance, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said that the...
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Bush: gaining on James Buchanan for last place
October 22, 2004Opinion The Republican National Convention presented George W. Bush’s presidency as a triumphant success. Most professional historians take a radically different view. A significant number of historians, in fact, rank the Bush presidency as the most...
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Nothing but lies
October 22, 2004Opinion Paul Krugman is a regular columnist for The New York Times. I have no way of knowing, but I imagine that he is paid well for what he does. And he should be. For Krugman...
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Letters
October 22, 2004What’s wrong with being a lesbian? Enough. The Bush-Cheney campaign has succeeded — yet again — in using a gay matter to distract voters from the real issues facing our nation. Simply put, there is nothing...
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Editorials
October 22, 2004Soldiers say no to ‘suicide’ Knowing they faced possible court martial, it was an act of great courage for 18 Army Reservists in Iraq to refuse to obey an order that they viewed as “suicidal.” The...
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