24 August 2005
Bush’s option to escalate the war in Iraq
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Norman Solomon
The Bush administration may ratchet up the Iraq war.

That might seem unlikely, even farfetched. After all, the president is facing an upsurge of domestic opposition to the war. Under such circumstances, why would he...
22 August 2005
Sheehan breakthroughs, unbridgeable divides, and taboos unbroken
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David Swanson
The Washington Post today wondered out loud whether Cindy Sheehan might be a "catalyst for a muscular antiwar movement."  In translation, this is an assertion that Cindy Sheehan has already become an accepted reason for the corporate media...
22 August 2005
The Iraq War and MoveOn
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Norman Solomon
The day after Wednesday night’s nationwide vigils, the big headline at the top of the MoveOn.org home page said: “Support Cindy Sheehan.” But MoveOn does not support Cindy Sheehan’s call for swift withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq....
18 August 2005
Can Cindy Sheehan end the war?
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Alexander Cockburn
You can tell in five minutes channel surfing how Cindy Sheehan frightens the pro-war crowd. One bereaved mom from Vacaville, Calif., camped outside Bush's home in Crawford, reproaching the vacationing president for sending her son to a...
17 August 2005
Blaming the antiwar messengers
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Norman Solomon
The surge of antiwar voices in U.S. media this month has coincided with new lows in public approval for what pollsters call President Bush’s “handling” of the Iraq war. After more than two years of a military occupation that was supposed...
16 August 2005
Someone Tell Frank Rich the War Is Not Over
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Norman Solomon
On Aug. 14, the New York Times published a piece by Frank Rich under the headline “Someone Tell the President the War Is Over.” The article was a flurry of well-placed jabs about the Bush administration’s lies and miscalculations for the...

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