Daily Archives: July 21, 2003

The Iraq Pitch and the Patriot Act

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William Rasberry doesn’t want us to be blinded by uraniumgate:

The flap over how the falsehood about uranium purchases from Niger made it into the president’s State of the Union message should not obscure what for me is the most troubling fact: Key members of the Bush administration, convinced in their hearts that America needed to destroy Saddam Hussein, thought it reasonable to exaggerate the threat and deliberately stretch the facts in order to sell the American people on that necessity.

Read his column to see why he thinks this is a pattern of behaviour.
Via Talkleft.

The Land of the Free

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Ken MacLeod did not want to risk his freedom:

Recently, on being asked if I intended to visit the United States some time soon, I indulged in the admittedly cheap crack that ‘I’m staying in the free world until America rejoins it.’ Trivial and theoretical though the risk may be, I just didn’t fancy being in a country where you can in theory be disappeared, interrogated and executed without any trial other than by a military tribunal. It wasn’t something I said lightly, because I really enjoyed all my past visits to America.

But now says:

On the bright side, however, I have no reason for not going to America.

Go read why he changed his mind.