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Terrorist threat or political hype?
Paul J. Caffera
Top Bush administration officials called the bust of arms dealer Hemant Lakhani last week a major blow against terrorism. Security experts are skeptical.
A huge and terrible mess
Salon Staff
In a speech to MoveOn.org, former Vice President Al Gore admonishes Bush and says "something basic has gone wrong in our country."
The war according to David Hackworth
Jonathan Franklin
The retired colonel calls Donald Rumsfeld an "asshole" whose bad planning mired U.S. troops in an ugly guerrilla conflict in Iraq. His sources? Defiant soldiers sending dispatches from the front.
Terror in the Saudi kingdom
Mark Follman
CIA veteran Bob Baer talks about the censored 9/11 report, why al-Qaida is still cozy in the house of Saud -- and why Osama is winning.
Are we safer now?
Eric Boehlert
The war on Saddam has made the U.S. less secure, say foreign-policy experts.
Woods on fire
Amy Reiter
Actor James Woods says he hates to talk about politics -- yet can't seem to help himself. In a let-it-rip interview, he defends Bush, calls Clinton a "liar," and sounds off on everything from his sex life to the war with Iraq.
“A blink of an eye, and a million killed”
Suzy Hansen
Author Aidan Hartley talks about his new book, "The Zanzibar Chest," the horrors of Somalia and Rwanda, and when you know war has become genocide.
The classified truth
Robert Scheer
Even the censored version of the 9/11 report makes it clear the U.S. focused on the wrong nation.
Don’t sweat the small stuff
Joyce McGreevy
A $5 trillion deficit? Bring it on, says our man at the OMB.
The Liberia waiting game
Laura McClure
Can the Bush administration bring itself to commit U.S. troops in Africa on purely humanitarian grounds?
“Buffalo Soldiers”
Stephanie Zacharek
Miramax delayed Gregor Jordan's film about bored U.S. soldiers in mid-'80s Germany because of Sept. 11. Its honest portrait of the military won't seem any more flattering now.
“Charlie Wilson’s War”
Charles Taylor
In George Crile's thrilling tale of good intentions gone wrong, one boozing congressman convinces the U.S. to support the Afghan mujahedin -- many of whom 20 years later want to see us dead.
Disgracing America, failing Iraq
Salon Staff
Sen. Edward Kennedy: Bush's lies have undermined America's prestige and credibility around the world.
The world press on the U.S. intelligence scandal
Compiled by Laura McClure
Saudi Arabia: If Blair goes down, he'll take Bush with him; Kenya: How do the parents of dead GIs feel about White House lies?
The Democrats’ brewing civil war
Michelle Goldberg
Deans, Greens and liberals say the party needs to scream the anti-Bush truth at the American people. New-Democratic centrists say Americans just aren't that left-leaning. The schism is wide, and it's going to get wider.
Is Iran next?
Mark Follman
Tehran is a year or two away from acquiring nuclear weapons. Is the Bush administration willing to go to war -- again -- to stop it?
A nation of scared sheep
Louise Witt
Why don't Americans care that Bush may have lied to them about Iraq? The answer lies deep in our reptilian brains.
The African press on Bush’s visit
Compiled by Laura McClure
From Kenya: "Bush's singular achievement has been to make America resented in Africa."
The world press: Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
Compiled by Laura McClure
Maclean's: When the Taliban fell, women were supposed to get a better deal. It hasn't happened.
Why the U.S. must invade Canada — now
Steve Burgess
It didn't support the war, it's soft on pot and gays, its economy is rolling and U.S. troops are bored. Anyway, reasons to invade countries are no longer needed!
The world press on Iraq
Compiled by Laura McClure
Guardian: Relief groups have been told they must be an "arm of the U.S. government" in Iraq.
“To have freedom or to die”
Mark Follman
An Iranian dissident leader says a week of protests has set the stage for regime change. He welcomes President Bush's support, but warns against U.S. military action.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "Bush's 9/11 Coverup?" by Eric Boehlert, and "Shocking Silence," by Andrew Sullivan.
The hyping of Saddam’s WMD
Jake Tapper
Last August, Bush said Saddam merely "desired" weapons of mass
destruction. A month later, as he began selling the Iraq war, his tone suddenly changed.
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