Month April 2003

Baghdad According to NPR, most government buildings in Baghdad have been looted and burned. So even when some semblance of order is restored, Iraq will have no functioning governmental structures, because you can’t have a government when there are no…

Hollywood rally Yes, the crowds at the worldwide peace rallies this wekend were smaller than the past few times. Events got ahead of us. Some think the war is over. It’s not. Also, occupation is not liberation – not that…

Molly Ivins on who the Bushies plan to run Iraq “So, we’ve got a crook <convicted embezzleer Ahmed Chalabi>, a Zionist <ret. Gen. Jay Garner> and an old spy <former CIA head James Woolsey> who thinks this is the beginning…

Pigs at the trough The Pentagon contract given without competition to a Halliburton subsidiary to fight oil well fires in Iraq is worth as much as $7 billion over two years, according to a letter from the Army Corps of…