Month April 2003

We are not with you and we don’t believe you  “The message from Moscow Tony Blair’s first public attempt to heal the diplomatic wounds of the Iraq war suffered a humiliating rebuff yesterday when Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, refused to…

Winning their hearts and minds, eh? “U.S. kills 15 Iraqis during an anti-American rallyUnited States soldiers shot and killed 15 people at an anti-American rally late Monday, hospital officials said today. Iraqis said the soldiers opened fire, unprovoked, while the…

Dems to filibuster Owens “Be still my beating heart, the Dems are going to filibuster another Bush judicial nominee — the odious Priscilla Owen!” Yet another sign of incipient vertebrae growing on Democrats. Excellent. They may yet be developing a workable…

Saddam Hussein will make statement in three days “Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will make a statement to the people of Iraq in three days, Agence France-Presse cited the London-based Arabic language al-Quds newspaper as saying”. Heck, I’m hoping for…

 Outsider Ramsey Clark makes a difference The L.A. Times printed my letter, and others, today responding to their Saturday article about Ramsey Clark, which trivialized him as an ineffective outsider. Re “He’s the Ultimate Outsider,” April 26: Ramsey Clark has hardly “forfeited a…