Wednesday, August 06, 2003

LETTING UP ON OSAMA Special Forces Previously In Afghanistan Are Moved To Iraq "George W. Bush hadn't mentioned Osama bin Laden's name in months, but he said recently that the U.S. was "slowly but surely" dismantling bin Laden's terrorist operation. As the hunt for Saddam Hussein intensifies, some U.S. officials are suggesting that the focus on the former leader of Iraq has come at the cost of eliminating the eccentric Saudi millionaire behind the 9/11 attacks." Time 2:07:39 PM    Permission To Speak Freely []

DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ? IT'S A FAIRY TALE "By now it should be obvious that no significant population group in Iraq wants the democracy that the Bush administration is striving so hard to establish. The best-educated Sunnis and Christians of the Baghdad elite may admire democracy in theory but fiercely oppose it in practice because they do not want to be ruled by the Shiite majority, and still less by the emerging Kurdish-Shiite alliance." Edward Luttwak -- LA Times Op-Ed 2:05:49 PM    Permission To Speak Freely []