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Letters
Salon Staff
Readers weigh in on the use of the "A-word" and neocon frothing over the Spanish election.
Welcome to the quagmire
Juan Cole
The Bush administration invaded Iraq a year ago expecting a shower of rose petals. Today, the country is on the verge of chaos, and there may be no way to stop it.
A Spanish inquisition
Robert Scheer
Will right-wing radio screamers now call for a boycott of Spanish olives?
Lost in transition
Craig Unger
While the votes were counted in Florida, Bush Sr. went hunting in Spain with Prince Bandar -- and the incoming administration ignored warnings about al-Qaida.
The great escape
Craig Unger
Immediately after 9/11, dozens of Saudi royals and members of the bin Laden family fled the U.S. in a secret airlift authorized by the Bush White House. One passenger was an alleged al-Qaida go-between, who may have known about the terror attacks in advance. Our first excerpt from "House of Bush, House of Saud."
Exploiting tragedy
Robert Scheer
The White House is making political hay out of 9/11 -- even while it's stonewalling a full investigation of the national tragedy.
The new Pentagon papers
Karen Kwiatkowski
A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country to war.
The new Pentagon papers
Karen Kwiatkowski
A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country to war.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Defending Bush's 9/11 ads, former White House speechwriter David Frum says terrorists will rejoice if Kerry wins the election.
When context is inconvenient
Geraldine Sealey
“We stood by while this happened”
Suzy Hansen
Author Steve Coll discusses "Ghost Wars," his new book about how the U.S. abandoned Afghanistan, tried to work with the Taliban, and failed to stop Osama bin Laden -- even though terrified CIA agents knew he was about to strike.
Blogging toward freedom
Luke Thomas
The more Iranian hard-liners crack down, the more blogs dedicated to changing the system spring up.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Even Bill O'Reilly is slamming Bush over missing Iraqi WMD, while Peter Brookes dubs Pakistan the global "nuclear Wal-Mart." Plus: More right-wing venom for Bush's anti-conservative ways.
War, the excuse for everything
Robert Scheer
As the transcript of Tim Russert's interview with
Bush shows, it's not clear that even the war president knows what war we're
fighting.
Silberman watch
Geraldine Sealey
The partisan “mastermind” in charge of Bush’s intel probe
Michelle Goldberg
Whenever there's a vast right-wing conspiracy, Judge Laurence Silberman keeps turning up.
The reporter they left behind
Mariane Pearl
Two years after my husband, Danny Pearl, was kidnapped and murdered, his employers at the Wall Street Journal seem all too willing to forget.
“Everywhere people are less puritanical — except in the U.S.”
Charles Taylor
Legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci on America's sexual backwardness -- and why Jake Gyllenhaal wouldn't take off his clothes.
“An End to Evil” by David Frum and Richard Perle
Gary Kamiya
Undaunted by the Iraq debacle, uber-hawks David Frum and Richard Perle air their fevered wet dream of a national-security superstate that slaps down uppity Muslims, bombs North Korea, slices and dices civil liberties and scatters the Palestinians like birdseed.
Enter the ayatollahs
Jen Banbury
Will Iraq turn into an Iranian-style theocracy or a more tolerant Muslim state? As zero hour for America's grand experiment approaches, Shiite leaders hold the key.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Dissecting the Dems: John Kerry's "floppo karaoke" may be no match for John Edwards, the "happy populist." Plus: Bush's new "compassionate counter-proliferation," and martyring Mel Gibson.
The conservatives are outraged — about Bush
Michelle Goldberg
At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, foot soldiers of the right rail against the big-government, free-spending ways of the White House.
The Bush dynasty’s dark magic
Joan Walsh
One-time Republican hero Kevin Phillips dares to speak up against the Walker-Bush oligarchy that rules the American state through oil, intelligence, big money and the power of the Christian right.
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