In February, after hearing the testimony at the Chilcot Inquiry, I reported on the Coalition for International Criminal Court, something I’d never ever heard of [Iraq and the UN Security Council: the ICC?]. Here’s a piece of what I wrote then: … there’s a second World Court [International Criminal Court] brought to my attention in […]
from UNHCR 1441 4. Decides that false statements or omissions in the declarations submitted by Iraq pursuant to this resolution and failure by Iraq at any time to comply with, and cooperate fully in the implementation of, this resolution shall constitute a further material breach of Iraq’s obligations and will be reported to the Council […]
[see the road to Iraq…] The US Process: I’m embarrassed by the paucity of thought that went into the invasion of Iraq. I remember thinking when they began to discuss it publicly in Sepember 2002 thinking, "What are they talking about?" I got into an email debate with old highschool classmates about it and got […]
Half my life ago, I was a research oriented Internist whose career had been sidetracked by a draft notice, and I found myself working in an overseas Air Force hospital seeing patients. It was a lot different from the City Hospital where I trained seeing desperately ill patients. The Air Force has a pretty healthy […]
The community I live in loosely organized around our small lake gathers on the 4th of July for a picnic and some fireworks. A guy who is a new arrival come up and started to talk. He had on a bright red tee-shirt with an American Flag – fairly standard garb for such an event. […]
I guess on July 4th, we usually look back at our country’s origins, but I prefer to look at our more recent unresolved history. The First Gulf War may have chased Iraq’s Saddam Hussein from Kuwait and decimated his army, but it didn’t cool his heels. He was as difficult afterward as before, resisting the […]
Last winter, I was personally captivated by the Chilcot Inquiry – the British Hearings delving into the origins of the Iraq War. The different legal roads to our illegal war in Iraq was of particular interest to me [the crime of aggression…]. We know from the Downing Street Memo [July 23, 2002] that the US […]
Lady GaGa Drag Queen Sexy Lady Feminine Woman There comes an age where pop-culture isn’t part of life anymore. It’s more an object of occasional curiosity. I’ve had that curiosity when Lady GaGa flashes across my television screen. The interesting or curious part to me is that I find her unappealing, unattractive. My reaction to […]
Conservatives use Pelosi as face of liberalism in campaign ads Washington Post By Karen Tumulty July 1, 2010 Beware! Nancy Pelosi is a colossal tax-dollar-engorged monster who ravages small towns and must be brought down by Republican ray guns. Or at least that is what a cartoon version of the House speaker looked like in […]