Pandora’s Box Opened in Iraq

Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. -- William Mather Lewis - President ,George Washington University 1923 -1927

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As Goes Hamas
by Rami G. Khouri, TomPaine.com
How the White House treats the new Palestinian government will be a litmus test for U.S. relations with the Arab world.



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A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -- James Madison, letter to W.T. Barry 4 August 1822


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Homeland Security Hype
by James A. Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
The domestic threat from exotic weapons or diseases is much smaller than you're being led to believe.


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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of day. -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Pierre S. du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 1816


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Democracy's Regression

Federal employees in all branches of government are being confronted with the reality of an administration that demands assent.


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Fortunately, many people would prefer to live a simple life in a good society than a life of riches and power in a horrible society. -- Randy Schutt, Inciting Democracy


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Number Of Iraqi civilians Slaughtered In America's War 100,000 +

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2277

The War in Iraq Costs $242,533,316,996 See the cost in your community


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Pandora’s Box Opened in Iraq:
Looking Backward, Forward, And Beyond
By Daniel Jordan and Neil Wollman
The fable of Pandora’s Box applies well to Iraq. War supporters wish us to judge the invasion and war on the removal of the brutal Saddam Hussein. A broad up-to-date analysis yields a disturbingly more negative assessment, with implications reaching far into the future.

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"No, war is not Hell. War is worse than Hell. There are no innocent bystanders
in Hell, but war is full of them."
- CPT Benj. Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, 4077th M*A*S*H

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Video Iraq :
The Reckoning The consequences of our misadventure in Iraq:
Channel 4 - UK Peter Oborne, political editor of the Spectator, reports on the West's exit strategy for Iraq. He believes the invasion of Iraq is proving to be the greatest foreign policy failure since Munich. Oborne argues that the plan to transform Iraq into a unified liberal democracy, a beacon of hope in the Middle East, is pure fantasy.