MaxSpeak has the text of a Jeffery Sachs article. If true, it looks as if the Bush Administration worked hand in hand with the opposition — including former Duvalier thugs. President George Bush’s foreign policy team came into office intent on toppling Mr Aristide, long reviled by powerful US conservatives such as former senator Jesse [...]
Archive for March 1st, 2004
Haiti: Worse than I Thought
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Mother Jones on Intelligence Failures
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Via Jim Henley, comes two Mother Jones articles that highlight ten years of deceptions on the intelligence of Iraq. The first highlights how the Clinton Administration misused the testimony of one defector to bolster the case for keeping sanctions in place. The article has its problems — it seems to take as a given the [...]
Bush Trading Nuclear Intel for bin Laden?
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He is if these reports are true The United States has struck a deal with Pakistan to allow U.S. troops to hunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden this spring in an area of Pakistan where he is believed to be operating, the New Yorker magazine reported on Sunday. Thousands of U.S. troops will [...]
Haiti: a Defeat in the War on Terrorism
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I have the feeling that the events in Haiti over the weekend are a defeat in the war on terrorism. If you accept the contention that the war on terrorism is as much about root causes as it is about killing terrorists (something the Bush Administration, to its credit, does accept )the this was a [...]
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