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So-Called Journalism

Scott Bradford — Tue, 26 May 2015 06:22:26 +0000

Here on my tenth-anniversary cruise vacation to Alaska, I have spent relatively little time following the news. On port days where I have wireless Internet access, I am catching up on some of the major headlines, but other than that it’s just occasional ‘catch-up’ sessions with the news channels available on our stateroom television. There […]

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Iraq’s Failure Isn’t Our Failure

Scott Bradford — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:42:17 +0000

Back in September 2011, as the U.S. military involvement in Iraq was beginning to wind down, I wrote an epic review of the Iraq war and the persistent popular misconceptions about it. Coming in at about 6,000 words, The War in Iraq: Ten Myths remains the most complete overview of what I believe about the […]

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The War in Iraq: Ten Myths

Scott Bradford — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:25:28 +0000

We need to take an honest, dispassionate, rational look back at the War in Iraq. During George W. Bush’s (R) presidency, no other issue incited the kind of vitriolic rage that Iraq did. It has since become “common knowledge” that our involvement there was, as the Eagles put it in the title track of their […]

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We Can’t Stay Forever

Scott Bradford — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:57:18 +0000

I supported—and, even in hindsight, continue to support—the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In both cases I believed that we were appropriately justified in military action. Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan were evil, genocidal leaders and removing them from power was a moral, righteous act. The mistakes that were made by […]

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Plain Ol’ Discourtesy

Scott Bradford — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:42:00 +0000

I wrote five years ago now about the ‘wrong way to protest‘, positing that while people are free to protest against the war in Iraq (or anything else, for that matter) they should be aware that there are limitations to that right, and that—even when protesting in a legal way—being rude or discourteous is unlikely […]

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Scott McClellan Tells All

Scott Bradford — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:02:11 +0000

The big news in political circles this morning is the new book by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan which paints a not-so-pretty portrait of President Bush, especially related to the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina. This is notable, in my opinion, in that it is the first book (that I’m aware of) accusing […]

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Post-War Occupations: A History Lesson

Scott Bradford — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:11:20 +0000

I have long compared the Iraq War to World War II, at least in some respects, going all the way back before it started. Interestingly, the post-war occupation we are mired in now has even more parallels than the war itself. Big kudos to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, David Stafford at the Washington Post, […]

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One Choice in Iraq

Scott Bradford — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:11:31 +0000

While our Congress stands on the verge of passing a resolution setting an artificial time-line for withdrawal from Iraq, an opinion piece by one of the few ‘liberal’ Congressmen still making sense appeared in the Washington Post this morning. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who caucuses with the Democratic Party, speaks of the real—though preliminary—progress in […]

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Saddam Hussain Executed by Hanging

Scott Bradford — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:17:07 +0000

Saddam Hussein, former dictator of Iraq, was executed by hanging at about 10:00 p.m. EST this evening (6:00 a.m. 12/30, Iraq time), reports senior U.S. officials and Hussein’s lawyers. The U.S. military in Iraq is on alert for possible reprisals by Baathist insurgents and other terrorist forces operating in the middle-eastern nation. Hussein was sentenced […]

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Revisionist History: Antiwar Myths About Iraq, Debunked

Scott Bradford — Tue, 23 May 2006 17:56:05 +0000

Peter Wehner catalogues and debunks many of the myths spouted by the antiwar left. Whether you agree or disagree with the war in Iraq, I encourage you to give it a serious read. There are fair arguments to be made against the war, but many of those made in popular discourse are baseless. Maybe reading […]

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