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Hornberger’s Blog, September 2006

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Friday, September 29, 2006 Do you recall when the neocons were justifying their war of aggression on Iraq and their subsequent military occupation of the country by saying, “The Iraqi people like our occupation because we’re bringing them peace and freedom”? Well, the Associated Press is reporting that 61 percent of the Iraqi people support attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, including a majority of both Sunnis and Shiites. Eighty percent of them want the U.S. out of their country within a year. Eighty percent of Iraqis believe that the U.S. occupation of their country is provoking more violence than it prevents. Question: If an Iraqi supports the killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, doesn’t that make him a terrorist? And isn’t the mission of U.S. forces in Iraq to kill terrorists? Doesn’t that mean that U.S. forces will have to kill 60 percent of the population in Iraq to finally “win” the war on terrorism — or at least the ...

A Century of Interventionism and Regime Change

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Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer (New York: Times Books, 2006); 400 pages; $27.50. Since September 11, the U.S. government has overthrown the governments of Afghanistan and Iraq. Most Americans appear to think of these actions as defensible in principle and, at any rate, see them as reactions to the terrorist aggression of 9/11. The overwhelming history of U.S. conduct in other countries rarely occurs to the average American. Aside from some obvious instances, such as the Vietnam War and the nearly universally approved U.S. intervention into World War II, the history of U.S. foreign policy does not get the attention and consideration it deserves. So when the World Trade Center and Pentagon were hit by hijacked commercial airplanes nearly five years ago, the ...

Hornberger’s Blog, May 2006

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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 In a speech to a friendly audience at West Point, President Bush announced that the “war on terrorism” would ultimately rival the Cold War in its length and difficulty. The corollary, which Bush didn’t mention, is that this will be perpetually increasing budgets for the military-industrial complex, a point that the graduates of West Point would undoubtedly be interested in. Think about it: As effective as the Cold War was in producing ever-increasing budgets for the Pentagon and the “defense” contractors, there was always the possibility — albeit remote — that the Cold War would end. But then the Soviet Union did fall and — uh, oh — what then? Well, obviously, we need a brand new justification for those ever-increasing Pentagon-CIA-State Department budgets, right? The beauty of the “war on terrorism,” from the standpoint of the big-government crowd, is that it will never come to an end because there are always going to be terrorists somewhere to bring ...

Hornberger’s Blog, December 2005

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Saturday, December 31, 2005 Our government is mired in such wrongful conduct as torture, denial of due process, denial of jury trials, spying on Americans, warrantless recording of citizens’ telephone calls, military interference with the criminal justice system, military denigration of the Constitution, brutal sanctions on overseas people, wars of aggression, military occupations, secret Soviet-era torture centers overseas, kidnapping of ...