Multilateralist Cowards by Sheldon Richman December 27, 2002 The biggest bunch of cowards in the U.S. Congress are the multilateralists. These are the ones who say that the Bush administration should not escalate the 10-year-old war against Iraq without the support of the United Nations. What makes them cowards is not their skittishness about having the United States go it alone against Saddam Hussein. It’s their seeking refuge in multilateralism so they don’t have to oppose the war forthrightly, as they should. They were afraid of going into the fall election with an “antiwar” brand on their hides. How pathetic. This can be the only explanation for their behavior because their position is otherwise incoherent. If, as they say, they believe Saddam is a threat to the American people and if most nations oppose the U.S. escalation, then why not support unilateral action? It makes ...
My Pre-Invasion Predictions by Jacob G. Hornberger January 13, 2003 More than a year prior to the September 11 attacks, we here at The Future of Freedom Foundation predicted that the U.S. government's interventionist foreign policy would ultimately produce terrorism on American soil: “Terrorism — or War,” by Jacob G. Hornberger “Breeding Terrorism,” by Sheldon Richman Here are my five predictions prior to the upcoming U.S. invasion of Iraq: First, the U.S. government’s invasion of Iraq will produce more terrorist attacks against Americans, including some attacks here in the United States. (Yes, I know, this is a safe prediction, especially given that the CIA has said the same thing.) Second, the U.S. government will claim that the post-Saddam terrorist attacks have nothing to do with the U.S. government’s invasion of Iraq and the resulting deaths of thousands of Iraqi people but instead are due to ...
Why War with Iraq? Follow the Money by Richard M. Ebeling March 5, 2003 Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf recently argued that America’s coming war with Iraq would provide a “public good” for the world. The world economy runs on oil. Any disruption in oil supplies or unstable swings in oil prices threaten the economic well-being of every oil user around the globe. Regimes such as the one currently in Iraq represent the potential source of such disruption and instability. If America wins a short war and brings the Iraqi oil fields fully back into operation, it will serve as a forceful counterweight to the political and economic troublemakers in OPEC. Thus, the argument goes, America is doing good for the world by doing well for itself and pursuing regime change in Iraq. There is an old adage in political and economic analysis. If you want to understand why ...
Breaking Iraqi Windows Won’t Help the Economy by Sheldon Richman March 19, 2003 The record-shattering bombardment of Iraq hasn’t begun yet, but that doesn’t mean it’s too soon to think about which American companies will get contracts to rebuild the soon-to-be devastated Arab country. According to the Washington Post, the Bush administration is “preparing what would constitute the most ambitious U.S. ...
An American Empire! If You Want It instead of Freedom, Part 2 by Richard M. Ebeling May 1, 2003 Part 1 | Part 2 Also making a case for an imperial role for the United States is Deepak Lal, professor of international development studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lal has long been a leading opponent of central planning and regulation in developing countries and a strong advocate of free markets and competition. On October 30, ...
If Iraq Really Adopts Freedom, Should We Move There? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 11, 2003 Model Amendments to the Iraqi Constitution of 2003 Whereas, the U.S. government has waged war on our land in which it has sacrificed the lives of dozens of its soldiers and those of thousands of the Iraqi people; and Whereas, the purpose of the war was to free the Iraqi people from ...
Bush’s WMD Flimflams by James Bovard September 1, 2003 The Bush administration’s rush to war against Iraq was justified largely by the danger that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction supposedly posed to the United States and to U.S. allies. In his January 28, 2003, state of the Union address, Bush denounced Saddam as “the dictator who is assembling the world’s ...
Should the U.S. Military in Iraq Adopt Israeli Methods? by James Bovard November 1, 2003 The Associated Press reported on September 18 that an Israeli military official declared that the U.S. military “is showing interest in Israeli software instructing soldiers on how to behave in the West Bank and Gaza.” The United States is looking at the Israeli policies as examples of how American soldiers can better handle a hostile population in Iraq. That may ...
Bush’s New Morally Bankrupt PR Campaign on Terrorism and Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger March 29, 2010 The Bush administration is at it once again — engaging in a new public-relations campaign to scare the American people half to death with the possibility of terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction and to garner support for its invasion and continued occupation of Iraq, which has not only cost the lives of thousands of Iraqis and ...
Iraq: One Year Later by Sheldon Richman March 19, 2004 Islamist terrorism, the eradication of which President Bush listed among his reasons for invading Iraq, has now made its way to Spain. Good show, Mr. Bush. When he says the world is safer one year after the war, one must wonder which world he means. The Spanish are being slandered ...
Saddam as the Twentieth Hijacker by James Bovard September 1, 2004 The 9/11 commission reported in June that there was no “collaborative relationship” between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, and thus that Bush’s Enemy No. 1 had no role in the 9/11 attacks. Far from finding any partnership between the two, the report noted that bin Laden “at one time sponsored anti-Saddam Islamists ...
The Federal Government Has Damaged Our Country by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2005 As the situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate, an increasing number of Americans are now questioning the wisdom of President Bush’s decision to invade. While the primary reason for people’s increased level of dissatisfaction is the number of U.S. troops killed and wounded, there are many other important reasons that Americans should be questioning not only the U.S. invasion ...
