Nuclear retaliation after an al Qaeda WMD attack
By HAL BROWN If the United States is attacked by al Qaeda and suffers very heavy casualties, a nuclear strike may be our only option for retaliation. As a nationless enemy…
Do-over Joe Lieberman
By HAL BROWN Like George W. Bush, Senator Joe Lieberman has a history of insisting on do-overs. These do-overs preceded his wanting one last military surge in Iraq. Sore loser…
Britney Spears and Dick Cheney: mulitple personalities?
By HAL BROWN Could the flamboyant Britney Spears and the dour Dick Cheney both suffer from multiple personality disorder? The term is most often used colloquially to describe someone who has…
Anna Nicole and George W.
By HAL BROWN This week we learned that Anna Nicole Smith and George W. Bush had a common aspiration: to be remembered as an iconic American. Anna Nicole wanted to be…
The Demopathic Party
By HAL BROWN After listening to them attack the anti-surge resolution, I've concluded that the Republicans think the Democrats are psychopaths. After all, they are such sore losers they want to send…
The doctors are dying
By HAL BROWN The hostilities in Iraq are being caused by the disease of religious and ethnic hate and the United States has decided to be the doctor. But the doctors…
Bush’s hero complex
By HAL BROWN In 1968 George W. Bush was coasting into adulthood with a new Yale B.A. and plans for a Harvard MBA. All the perks of two Ivy League degrees…
Fool Me Once
By HAL BROWN Is intelligence being hyped again, this time to implicate Iran as an active enemy of America in Iraq? And if so, are American journalists buying it hook, line…
Scooter: Damn that multitasking
By HAL BROWN Number two's number two claims he was too distracted and too busy to remember. This seems to be "Scooter" Libby's defense. It reminds me of his bosses explanation (read "defense")…
Bush is no Gandhi
By HAL BROWN The lead editorial in the New York Times ( A Bleak Assessment on Iraq ) today ends as follows:
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