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This was to be a machine for victory and it would be launched like a juggernaut. Powerfully financed, armed with the latest…
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the website TomDispatch.com. He is also a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. A fellow of the Type Media Center, his sixth and latest book is A Nation Unmade by War.
“I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.” President George W. Bush, September 11, 2001…
Here was part of a May 4 conversation between Larry King and Colin Powell on Larry King Live about the photos from…
“The next day [January 14, 2004], Gen. John Abizaid, commander of all U.S. forces in the region, was on the phone to…
Quote of the week: “A year ago, I did give the speech from the carrier, saying that we had achieved an important…
Quotes of the Week: “One senior American officer said that in any urban fight, American troops could turn Falluja into ‘a…
Ours may be a couch-potato rather than a warrior society, but it’s certainly a war society, which remains a simple but hard-to-grasp…
Optimism then, optimism now: Air Force Lt. Gen. Lance Smith, Centcom’s second in command in January: “We’ve watched the number of significant…
Quotes of the week leading up to the presidential news conference: “‘I want heads to roll,’ US President George W. Bush…
Quotes of the day: “Saddam should not have been a hard act to follow. After 30 years of disastrous wars, Iraqis wanted…