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Bringing the Troops Home, Beginning with a Lieutenant Colonel

A Dishonorable Discharge for Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich would be a start. This officer epitomizes the insane combination of religious right and power mad, when they infiltrate and lie dormant within the American armed services. The classic comparisons to General Jack Ripper from Dr. Strangelove and his ‘precious bodily fluids’ are almost too easy.

The Fate of the World as a Mere Intellectual Exercise

William Kristol and Louis Rene Beres are professional intellectuals. Think-tank guys. Pundits. Gamblers with other people's money (or lives or futures or survival). Fearless and outspoken, as long as it's from behind a desk and their own skins are not at risk.

Finally, a Contractor Worse Than Halliburton

Just when it seemed no contractor in Iraq could possibly eclipse (or even equal) the venality and hutzpah of Halliburton, Glenn Kessler over at the Washington Post unearthed First Kuwaiti General Trade and Contracting Co.

A Pussyfooting, Wheedling, Sniveling Approach to Confronting National Shame

Roscoe Born, prior to writing a morally unsupportable editorial in the Sunday Baltimore Sun, was Washington editor of Barron's magazine and a reporter in The Wall Street Journal'swill someone please take George Bush into a quiet, unthreatening environment and talk a little Cheney-sense into him?   

First, Send Everybody Home

Three hundred-thirteen dead U.S. troops in the last three months and no Iraqi territory gained, none held, none pacified. Target-practice for the insurgents against the surge of American troops, set in motion by Presidential Medal of Freedom winner M. Paul Bremer when he sent everyone home four years ago. In one irresponsible and mistaken move, Bremer destroyed a functioning Iraqi society and opted for chaos.