CHRONOLOGICAL ADDITIONS TO THE SITE

The following were added since the site was installed. Unfortunately, MUCH of the subject matter has more to do with ARROGANCE AND STUPIDITY than with wisdom and courage, although the authors often show wisdom and / or courage.

• Clark Says 'Rush to War' Based on Twisted Facts -- 10/17/03
• Letters from soldiers -- 11/15/03
• Blueprint for a mess -- 12/02/03
• Letters from soldiers (#2) -- 3/21/04
• Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia said, "My vote was wrong", on 3/26/04
• The beginning of the end? -- 4/7/04
• A no-can-do nation? -- 4/11/04
• Cynthia McKinney -- 4/11/04 Running for office again
• The COST OF THE WAR -- A running total -- http://costofwar.com/ (it is over $189 billion as of 8/24/05)
• US Military Deaths in Iraq -- A periodically updated total -- http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html (1872 DEATHS as of 8/24/05) Note that (as of 8/24/05) for every 100 million dollars we are spending, one American fighting man is dying. Is this cause and effect?
• CAN YOU HANDLE PHOTOS OF DRAPED COFFINS? OUR GOVERNMENT THINKS NOT. 4/23/04
• What went wrong? / by Paul Krugman / NY Times 4/23/04
• Bushworld / by Maureen Dowd / NY Times / 4/25/04
• Falluja, "a possible harbinger for all of Iraq." -- 4/28/04
• The Taguba report on the "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuse of detainees" 5/04/04
• A total disaster? 5/6/04
• President Bush speaks. Is it an apology? -- 5/7/04
• A President beyond the Law / by Anthony Lewis for The New York Times -- 5/8/04
• Crisis of Confidence (... this has been a horrible year ... we can roll over hostile armies ... but not over problems ...) 5/8/04
• Am I reading this right -- is the fox now guarding the hens? -- 5/8/04
• al-Sadr reacts, offers rewards and the right to keep slaves -- 5/8/04
• Lesson from history (1839 -- 1841) when 15,000 Britains were killed in Kabul -- 5/8/04
• Red Cross report on abuses.  A theoretically non-political view of the situation. -- 5/10/04
• The Truth Will Emerge -- and when it does, this house of cards, built of deceit, will fall. Senator Byrd on 5/21/03 -- 5/10/04
• Rumsfeld blamed by military newspaper 5/10/04
• A confession of ignorance and naivete from a previously apolitical American 5/11/04
• Losing means winning 5/11/04
• Just Trust Us / By PAUL KRUGMAN / NY Times / Published: May 11, 2004
• Saddam's bombs -- we will find them 5/12/04
• Abu Ghraib photos analyzed 5/12/04
• Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, the Fox, is now guarding the hens (5/13/04)
• The retreat from our core values / By Cynthia Tucker / May 24, 2004
• Are many of our troops being enslaved by Presidential order?  / By Andrew Exum for the NY Times -- 6/2/04
• What would the Pope do? -- Eight excerpts from an article by JOHN L. ALLEN Jr. -- 6/3/04
• What would the lawyers do? Advice to the President 6/8/04
• GOOD NEWS AT LAST -- U.S. Envoy Predicts Passage of Amended Iraq Resolution / By Warren Hoge -- 6/8/04
• Security Council, in a 15-0 Vote, Backs Measure on Iraq Turnover / By Warren Hoge for the NY Times -- 6/9/04
• Stories of the real war By SHARON WAXMAN -- 6/9/04
• Bush's advisors, the roots of this war, are, at last, being seriously challenged. -- by Patrick Buchanan -- 6/9/04
• Ashcroft stonewalls / Says Bush Didn't Order Any Breach of Torture Laws -- By NEIL A. LEWIS -- 6/9/04
• Time to cut our losses -- Molly Ivins -- 5/18/04
• Bush, European Leaders Remain Divided / By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer -- 6/12/04
• Errors Are Seen in Early Attacks on Iraqi Leaders -- by DOUGLAS JEHL and ERIC SCHMITT -- 6/13/04
• The war President is still at it -- two years later. -- 6/27/05
• More damning stuff. We bombed Iraq -- before the congressional vote was taken. (6/27/05)
• We went there to remove Sadaam. We removed him. Let's leave (MC) (8/14/05)