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Engelhardt: The Way We Were
Znet Article, July, 11 2004
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Here we are just past our Independence Day, past that moment in memory when the United States was, by active example, a "beacon of freedom" to the world, past the moment in memory when, as Barbara Ehrenreich reminded us in the New York Times on Ju...
Engelhardt: The CIA did it!
Znet Article, July, 11 2004
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The CIA did it!
Engelhardt: The Cut-and-Run Transition
Znet Article, June, 29 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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When the "transition" moment occurred in B...
Engelhardt: The pseudo-opposition
Znet Article, June, 27 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Finally, the week of "transition" has come. The rolling of drums (or is that the boom of mortars?), the handing over of what our President insists is "complete, full sovereignty...
Engelhardt: Connecting the Dots
Znet Article, June, 23 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Connecting the Dots
Engelhardt: The battered French fry and other lies of our times
Znet Article, June, 22 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Who could catalogue the lies of our times? In fact, the category "lies" hardly covers the matter. Take a simple example, just now on front pages everywhere: the President invites the press in for a post-cabinet-meeting moment. It's the day after t...
Engelhardt: Iraqi Sovereignty Established
Znet Article, June, 17 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Iraqi Sovereignty Established
Engelhardt: Water-boarding in the White House
Znet Article, June, 16 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Water-boarding in the White House
Engelhardt: George Orwell... meet Franz Kafka
Znet Article, June, 14 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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George Orwell... meet Franz Kafka
Engelhardt: World War II, George, and me:
Znet Article, June, 07 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Last weekend, while dedicating the National World War II Memorial on the Washington Mall in front of thousands of veterans of that war, including his own father (who had bailed out of a torpedo bomber south of Japan in 1944), the President choked ...
Engelhardt: The Day After Tomorrow
Znet Article, June, 04 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Over Memorial Day weekend, with my family elsewhere, I drove to a multiplex to catch Roland Emmerich's global warming disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow. This was the film for which Bush adm...
Engelhardt: Memorial Day Trophies
Znet Article, May, 31 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Memorial Day Trophies
Engelhardt: State of denial:
Znet Article, May, 26 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Quote of the day: "At a meeting I attended with European diplomats to discuss reconstruction, a Rumsfeld protégé asserted that 'Ahmed Chalabi is like the prophet Muhammad. At first, people...
Engelhardt: The Last Man Standing
Znet Article, May, 24 2004
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The last man standing &nb...
Engelhardt: Failure of the Will?
Znet Article, May, 19 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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This was to be a machine for victory and it would be launched like a juggernaut. Powerfully financed, armed with the latest technology, well trained and disciplined. Yes, its proponents claimed, there might be some bumps in the road ahead, but the...
Engelhardt: Chaos in Washington
Znet Article, May, 17 2004
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Chaos in Washington
Engelhardt: On thinking about war crimes
Znet Article, May, 11 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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On thinking about war crimes
Engelhardt: Postcards from the Edge:
Znet Article, May, 09 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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"The next day [January 14, 2004], Gen. John Abiza...
Engelhardt: The Great Unraveling
Znet Article, May, 05 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Quote of the week: "A year ago, I did give the speech from the carrier, saying that we had achieved an important objective, that we'd accomplished a mission, which was the removal of Saddam Hussein. And as a result, there are no longer torture cha...
Engelhardt: Custer Battles Iraqis in Alamo
Znet Article, April, 25 2004
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Custer Battles Iraqis in Alamo
Engelhardt: The War Society
Znet Article, April, 23 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Ours may be a couch-potato rather than a warrior society, but it's certainly a war society, which remains a simple but hard-to-grasp fact for Americans. We have been subjected to a kind of militarization that is so widespread as to be -- strangely...
Engelhardt: Dreaming of George
Znet Article, April, 17 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Optimism then, optimism now: Air Force Lt. Gen. Lance Smith, Centcom's second in command in January: "We've watched the number of significant events (against coalition forces) ...
Engelhardt: The American Legacy In Iraq
Znet Article, April, 15 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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The American Legacy In Iraq
Engelhardt: Collapse?
Znet Article, April, 13 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Quotes of the day: "Saddam should not have been a hard act to follow. After 30 years of disastrous wars, Iraqis wanted a quiet life. All the Americans really needed to do was to get the relatively efficient Iraqi administration up and running ...
Engelhardt: Collapse?
Znet Article, April, 12 2004
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Quotes of the day: "Saddam should not have been a hard act to follow. After 30 years of disastrous wars, Iraqis wanted a quiet life. All the Americans really needed to do was to get the relatively efficient Iraqi administration up and running ...
Engelhardt: Our War President in crisis -- duck!
Znet Article, April, 09 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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While the situation in Iraq was devolving and his national security advisor was preparing to testify under oath -- or do I mean to stonewall, firewall, split hairs, filibuster? -- before the 9/11 Commission, our War President, according to Scott L...
Engelhardt: The tunnel at the end of the light
Znet Article, April, 08 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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The tunnel at the end of the light
Engelhardt: Into the Shadows
Znet Article, April, 05 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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The clue for seventeen across, a seven-letter empty space in the Friday March 26 New York Times crossword puzzle was "detainee's entitlement." It took me a while to break the code -- the Friday crossword's always a nightmare -- and discover that t...
Engelhardt: The Old Switcheroo
Znet Article, April, 02 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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If anything can be called "amusing" any more, the most amusing political headline of the week certainly appeared on the front page of the Wednesday New York Daily News: "Bush Serves Up Rice." It also captured the focus of media coverage ever since...
Engelhardt: Twenty-first Century Gunboat Diplomacy
Znet Article, March, 30 2004
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Imperial quote of the week (or: you don't keep the New Rome waiting in the New Spain): "A senior administration official traveling with [Secretary of State Colin] Powell described the meeting [after the funeral service for the Madrid bombing victi...
