Report on the Search For Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, From the Republican Military Command (Karl Rove, Lt. General, Commanding) Report on the Search For Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, From the Republican Military Command (Karl Rove, Lt. General, Commanding)
We can't yet find the nukes and gas,
Though we have looked in every section.
But we may find them in Iran--
And just before the next election.
Jun 5, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
How Their Big Lie Came to Be How Their Big Lie Came to Be
Leave it to a Marine to be blunt. When Lieut. Gen.
Jun 3, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Pentagon Aims Guns at Lynch Reports Pentagon Aims Guns at Lynch Reports
It is one thing when the talk-show bullies who shamelessly smeared the last President, even as he attacked the training camps of Al Qaeda, now term it anti-American or even treas...
May 30, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Nonagenarians Against Cynicism Nonagenarians Against Cynicism
Nothing deepens your cynicism quicker than the power of money in American politics.
May 29, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
White Lies White Lies
The radio went on in the middle of the night and there in my ear was the voice of a young man.
May 29, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt
We’re Safe From Saddam We’re Safe From Saddam
A Joyous Song of Deliverance for Spring
May 29, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Forgetting to Laugh Forgetting to Laugh
Of all the columns I've written, never have I gotten more mail than for the following sentence: "It will not matter that the Dixie Chicks play to full, cheering houses, while t...
May 22, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers! Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers!
Thank God for fakers! Matchless as deflaters of human and institutional pretension, they furnish us rich measures of malicious glee at the red-faced victims.
May 22, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Thoughts of Those Who Served in George W. Bush’s Air National Guard Unit Thoughts of Those Who Served in George W. Bush’s Air National Guard Unit
When he lands on the deck in his flight suit
To impress all the sailors he's greeting,
It looks grand, but there's one thing we're thinking:
May 22, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Saving Private Lynch: Take 2 Saving Private Lynch: Take 2
In the 1998 film Wag the Dog, political operatives employ special editing techniques to create phony footage that will engender public sympathy for a manufactured war.
May 21, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer