Category: Foreign Policy
Aid for Tsunami Victims | Good Election News | U.S. to “Disappear” Suspected Terrorists
by WS Editors | Jan 15, 2005 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsOff the Air—It took President Bush three days from the time of the tsunami disaster to meet with reporters at his Texas ranch. He told them that the United States would send $15 million in foreign aid to help the victims of the earthquake and tidal wave in southern Asia, a historic cataclysm that has […]
A Corporate Free-for-All Becomes a Fee for All
by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2004 | Foreign Policy, UncategorizedA COVER-UP—In Iraq, the worst contracts could turn out to be “task-order” agreements. Christopher Yukins, an associate professor of government contract law at George Washington University, told Government Executive magazine in June that task-order contracts are also “non-competitive.” The most infamous of these contracts allowed the Army to hide its procurement of private-sector interrogators at the Abu […]
American Dereliction of Duty in Iraq Gives World Terrorists Recruiting Posters
by WS Editors | Jun 1, 2004 | Foreign PolicyAn editorial-page cartoon by Nick Anderson in the Louisville Courier Journal showed a bearded, smiling Saddam Hussein peering through the bars of a prison cell. He was giving a thumbs-up and a “nice work, guys!” comment to two American soldiers as they wired a hooded Iraqi prisoner for electric shocks. Another cartoon, in the Hackensack, New Jersey,Record, […]
Warriors Behind the Scenes Coached the Stars On Stage
by Margie Burns | May 1, 2004 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsEditor’s note: Pesident Bush called the days leading up to the Easter weekend “a tough week” in Iraq. It was also a tough week for him at home, and the following weeks have gotten tougher. An April poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that support among Democrats for […]
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