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Engelhardt: 'Gone Fishing,' How the President Got a Life
Znet Article, December, 09 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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The "usually disengaged" President, as columnist Maureen Dowd labeled him, had just returned from a prolonged, brush-cutting Crawford vacation to much criticism and a nation in trouble. (One Republican congressman complained that "it was hard for ...
Engelhardt: What, Me Torture?
Znet Article, December, 06 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Typically, when faced with a problem, the first thing Bush administration officials do is reach for their dictionaries to pretzel and torture words into whatever ...
Engelhardt: How (Not) to Withdraw from Iraq
Znet Article, December, 02 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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On the September 27th Charlie Rose Show, interviewing New Yorker editor David Remnick, Rose brought up the question of what the United States should do in Iraq. Should we "get out" -- or, as Remnick so delicately put it, should we "bolt"? Here was...
Engelhardt: American Ziggurats, Imperial Ruins, and Other Wonders of the Modern Age
Znet Article, November, 23 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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American Ziggurats, Imperial Ruins, and Other Wonders of the Modern Age
Engelhardt: From Woodward to Woodward
Znet Article, November, 22 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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From Woodward to Woodward
Engelhardt: Losing the Fear Factor
Znet Article, November, 21 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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It's finally Wizard of Oz time in America. You know -- that moment when the curtains are pulled back, the fearsome-looking wizard wreathed in all that billowing smoke turns out to be some pitiful little guy, and everybody looks around sheepishly, ...
Engelhardt: Woodward-gate
Znet Article, November, 17 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Two presiding deities -- and lively ghosts they are -- continue to hover over the present administration: Vietnam and Watergate. Though the competition between them is fierce, this week Watergate suddenly surged to the fore as the Washington Post'...
Engelhardt: The White House Ethics Lesson
Znet Article, November, 09 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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[Note: We are in such an age of extremity that perfectly sane people can mistake satire for reality. I've run into this before in my modest attempts at humor (with angry or confused letters to follow), and yet the absurd bubble-extremity of the Bu...
Engelhardt: Bush's Wall of Shame
Znet Article, November, 06 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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The motto of this administration might easily be: "failing upward." Of course, that's not hard when those leading the country into catastrophe are also making the appointments and bestowing the honors. Somewhere in this world of ours there should ...
Engelhardt: The Press in Iraq
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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The Press in Iraq
Engelhardt: Implosion?
Znet Article, October, 26 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Implosion?
Engelhardt: Facing a Nameless War
Znet Article, October, 21 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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In September 2001, the President announced that we were at war with terrorism. It was to be a conflict far longer than World War II, a titanic generational struggle more in line with the Cold War in its prospective length. It was a war that natura...
Engelhardt: The Democratic Party's Urge to Lose
Znet Article, October, 13 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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The Democratic Party's Urge to Lose
Engelhardt: Spellcheck, the Poem
Znet Article, October, 09 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Spellcheck, the Poem
Engelhardt: Last One to Leave, Please Turn On the Lights
Znet Article, October, 03 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Recently, our top commander in Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., was brought back to the United States, officially to consult with George Bush on what the President still calls "our strategy for victory." Along with retiring Joint Chiefs Chairman Ge...
Engelhardt: 'No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die'
Znet Article, September, 25 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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'No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die'
Engelhardt: Part of the Problem
Znet Article, September, 22 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Not long after Baghdad fell to American troops, it was already apparent that the United States was part of the problem, not part of the solution, in Iraq; and that, as long as the American military occupied the country,...
Engelhardt: Blood for No Oil
Znet Article, September, 20 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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The strangest aspect of media coverage of our invasion and occupation of Iraq involved that country's oil. Everyone, including the Bush administration, was well aware that Iraq sat on a sea of it. It was obvious that Middle Eastern oil was a glob...
Engelhardt: The Can-do Bush Administration Does...
Znet Article, September, 19 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Don't say they can't. They can -- and they did. Despite every calumny, it turns out that the Bush administration can put together an effective, well-coordinated rescue team and get crucial supplies to militarily occupied, devastated New Orleans on...
Engelhardt: Corporations of the Whirlwind
Znet Article, September, 14 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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"At times it is hard to ignore the comparisons between Baghdad (where I was less than a month ago and have spent more of the last two years) and New Orleans: The anarchy, the looting, some of it purely for survival, some of it purely opportunistic...
Engelhardt: At the Front of Nowhere at All
Znet Article, September, 04 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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The headline was: "Direct hit in New Orleans could mean a modern Atlantis," and the first paragraph of the story read: "More than 1.2...
Engelhardt: Catapulting the Propaganda
Znet Article, August, 28 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Catapulting the Propaganda
Engelhardt: Prisoners and the Torturers Who Torture Them
Znet Article, August, 25 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Extraordinary renditions, torture, abuse, humiliation, detention without charge or end, an obsession with protecting American officials (and military men) from fu...
Engelhardt: Vietnam on Crack
Znet Article, August, 24 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Vietnam on Crack
Engelhardt: George's Lucky 'Top 13' Summer-of-Cindy Reading List
Znet Article, August, 22 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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It's been a month of momentous White House announcements. First, there was Laura's gender-bending, glass-soufflé-dish breaking decision to choose Cristeta Comerfo...
Engelhardt: Cindy, Don, and George
Znet Article, August, 14 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Cindy, Don, and George
Engelhardt: Chaos under Heaven
Znet Article, August, 08 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Chaos under Heaven
Engelhardt: Some Belated Acknowledgments
Znet Article, August, 05 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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The Chevron ad began: "It took us 125 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil. We'll use the next trillion in 30. Energy will be one of the defining issues of this century. One thing is clear: the ...
Engelhardt: Making Sense of the Plame Affair
Znet Article, July, 31 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Making Sense of the Plame Affair
Engelhardt: Stop, Thief!
Znet Article, July, 30 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Stop, Thief!
