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Hornberger’s Blog, May 2004

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Monday, May 31, 2004 Today — Memorial Day — is a good time to begin reflecting on the future direction of our country, especially given the failure of the most recent foreign war waged by the federal government. I say failure because there is no possibility that the occupation of Iraq will succeed in bringing freedom, democracy, or even the long-term appointment of a U.S. puppet regime in that country. The Iraqi people will never trust U.S. officials, not only because it was U.S. officials who imposed and maintained the embargo for more than a decade that callously killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children but also because the sex abuse, rape, torture, and murder scandal has destroyed any hope of winning the trust of the Iraqi people, especially the religious ones. The troops might well be kept in Iraq for the indefinite future but they will be killing ...

Leave Iraq Alone

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Despite the fact that he is amassing an impressive display of military armament in the areas near Iraq, President Bush says that he still hasn’t made up his mind on whether to order an invasion of Iraq. That would imply that despite the array of intelligence and information that the president has in his possession, none of it so far has been sufficiently convincing for him to make up his mind. Of course, there’s always another possibility: that the president isn’t telling the truth and that he secretly made the decision to invade Iraq long ago. But wouldn’t that mean that he has been deliberately deceiving the American people and the rest of world, even while reminding everyone that Saddam Hussein is a liar? Since the United States, unfortunately, has now ...

RESTORING THE REPUBLIC 2008

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“Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties” was a 3-day conference beginning on a Friday, June 6, 2008, and ending on Sunday, June 8, 2008. There were 21 speakers with each speaker given 45 minutes to 1 hour for his speech, including Q&A. There were no concurrent sessions — all speeches were given to the entire audience. Scroll down or click on a lecture title below to watch a specific lecture. Friday, June 6, 2008 Jacob G. Hornberger - "From Empire and Intervention to Freedom and Republic" - 9:00 a.m. Robert Higgs - "How Major U.S. Neo-imperialist Wars End" - 10:00 a.m. Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. - "War and the Future of the Dollar" - 11:00 a.m. James Bovard - "Bush's War on Civil ...