The Anti-Manichaeist

Richard Clarke spins out a large number of issues that have been seriously sidelined by the BushAdmin as so much attention has been given to Iraq.

Check this out at Steve Knight’s blog!
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Carl Bildt,the Swedish Foreign Minister, said that Saddam Hussein shd not have been hung in Baghdad on a Sunday Morning.
He opposed it as part of Sweden and Europe’s general opposition to the death penalty, but in addition it means that the ongoing legal action against the Saddam cannot be concluded.  “The judicial process against Saddam Hussein […]

Levko at Foreign Notes shares the perspective of an insider on whether there is a chance of effective cooperation between Yushchenko and Yanukovych(The President and PM of Ukraine who were rival candidates for the presidency before and during the Orange Revolution in 2004.).
“Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovich have only one [realistic] perspective - I started to […]

I just saw the news on CNN. 
I feel nothing but sadness.
I see nothing here that brings hope that the serious death and destruction in Iraq will come to an end, enabling Iraqis to look forward to a better future.
Only when we become better followers of Jesus will there be a way out of this morass. 
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Our desire for independence based on cheaper oil is giving more power to oil/gas autarchs around the world.  We’ve had to accomodate Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and now he’s shutting down the opposition press in his country.  How much you wanna bet we want his oil enough that we don’t say much of a word […]

When I posted about “Why We Fight”, I got a comment from Ken Larson who blogs at Rose Covered Glasses.  He fought in Vietnam and came back with PTSD, which he dealt with by becoming a workaholic within the Military-Industrial complex in ways that were harmful for his family life.  He has now retired and […]

According to Dalia Ziada of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and Jesse Sage of the (Hands across the Mideast Support Alliance)HAMSA project of the American Islamic Congress:In Egypt a 22 year old student, Amer, has been jailed for blogging about his country’s politics. 
If these standards of censorship were applied in the United States or […]

TPM reports how Woodward apparently found out two some years ago that Gerald Ford was very very critical of the BushAdmin for Gulf War II, but had to agree not to reveal the info until Ford died.
It seems quite sad that Ford felt his criticism had to wait until after he died to be made […]

I’m just watching Anderson Cooper’s CNN special on Christianity in the US. 
Here is a rush transcript.
The “Evangelicals” who are looking forward to the rapture and “Gospel of Wealthers” come out looking pretty bad, in my opinion.
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