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Tag Archives: Bush Administration

Would a better prepared U.S. have used torture?

The so-called Senate CIA Torture Report is supposed to be released today.  Five years ago, I wrote an article for Nieman Watchdog on the Bush Administration’s decision to resort to “enhanced interrogation techniques,” or torture in plain speak.  Torture, I wrote back then, was the refuge of the impatient and incompetent, an approach that abrogated…

December 9, 2014 in US Foreign Relations, US Military, US Politics.

The Iraq War: Why We Really Did It

Michael Murry I watched Rachel Maddow’s new documentary (“Why We Did It”) on why the U.S. went to war in Iraq in 2003.  Her answer was “oil,” which is true enough as far as it goes.  But it doesn’t go nearly far enough. First of all, a matter of style: I found her breathless “now it…

March 8, 2014 in US Foreign Relations, US Politics, war.

Old Thoughts on the Iraq War and Its Aftermath

W.J. Astore Note to readers: I wrote these words in November 2008, just after Obama was elected President for the first time.  I’ve decided not to edit them.  Perhaps they capture the thoughts (however flawed) of one American who was trying to understand the mess we had made of Iraq. Straight Talk on Iraq: Of…

October 18, 2013 in US Foreign Relations, US Military, war.

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