Capitol Chronicle

As the year turns, the auguries of war predict the worst

"...envisions scenarios ranging from a quick collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime to a regional conflagration in which Israel responds..."

Dec. 27, 2002 News Column by Michael King

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More than the insanity or weaponry of Saddam Hussein, we should fear the deepening of a rift between the Muslim world and the West. The haste with which we are building toward war in Iraq is sending the wrong message to both.

"...More than the insanity or weaponry of Saddam Hussein, we should fear the deepening of a rift between..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM

You don't think that this whole thing with Iraq could have anything to do with the fact that Iraq sits on 10% of the world's oil reserves? Naw. It's gotta be them weapons of mass destruction.

"...by administration officials, is to lure defectors from Mr. Hussein's weapons programs with promises that in return for their..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Do You Feel Safe? A Chronicle Questionnaire

Test your patriotism with our attempt at Total Information Awareness.

"...terror": war on Osama bin Laden, war on Saddam Hussein (and a handful of other people alleged to live..."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature

Austin @ Large: Running Scared

Time waits for no one -- especially not the Downtown Austin Alliance or the Austin Music Network -- at the City Hall sausage factory.

"...is much like that given by Bush to Saddam Hussein. There will not be consensus. Two-way streets are doomed,..."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Letters at 3AM

America has engaged in a long-term strategy, through three presidential administrations, to take over the Iraqi people whom we've made helpless from a ruthless form of bio-warfare.

"...and adults. We all know that the regime, Saddam Hussein, is not paying the price for economic sanctions. It..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Get Your Brain on with Cartoonist David Rees

A profile of cartoonist David Rees, coming to Austin to promote his book Get Your War On

"...Afghanistan and the Taliban to overthrowing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Rees hopes a serious discussion of what war entails..."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Naked City

News briefs from Austin and elsewhere.

"...the U.S. would "lead a coalition to disarm" Saddam Hussein...."

Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Our readers talk back.

"...as a civilized society -- George Bush or Saddam Hussein? Saddam may be a pain in the ass, and..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

The Hightower Report

Bush preserves democracy by coddling tyrants; Phil Gramm cashes in at the bank.

"...huff and puff so belligerently about the despicable Saddam Hussein, asserting that their noble goal in attacking him is..."

Oct. 25, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

"It's Extremely Easy to Frighten People"

Insightful foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky explains the upcoming war, previewing his Austin appearances.

"...Chomsky: It's certainly not for the stated reasons. Saddam Hussein is no more dangerous now than he was four..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta has been having trouble watching television lately. It's what isn't on television that's keeping her up at nights --the conspicuous absences, the loud silences.

Oct. 18, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Clergy: Bush Shalt Not Kill

"...him to seek nonviolent ways of dealing with Saddam Hussein...."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Feature by Lee Nichols

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The impending misadventure in Iraq is almost too heartbreaking to write about.

Oct. 11, 2002 Column by Louis Black

KAOS at KOOP

Austin's "community-owned" radio station is once again fractured into factions.

"...FM to the U.S. government's ongoing conflict with Saddam Hussein, there are some similarities. Both have simmered for years..."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Smells Like Victory

For a change, this November's state elections might actually be interesting.

"...every party, have suggested that the timing of the anti-Hussein crusade is no coincidence. Karl Rove has been counseling..."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Column by Michael King

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"...give others the benefit of the doubt. But Saddam Hussein deserves no benefit. His behavior is flatly unacceptable. He..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

The Hightower Lowdown

George W. Bush makes war on evildoers -- except the ones he likes; and W and his cohorts love war -- unless they're the ones who have to fight.

"...popular appeal until he decided to go after Saddam Hussein in 1990, causing his poll numbers to soar. He..."

Sept. 27, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Our readers talk back.

"...give others the benefit of the doubt. But Saddam Hussein deserves no benefit. His behavior is flatly unacceptable. He..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Column

War Drums

"..."This time there will be no negotiation with Saddam Hussein," an ultimatum that has been somewhat stymied by Iraq's..."

Sept. 20, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

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Our readers talk back.

"...the survey favor using U.S. troops to overthrow Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq."..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column

Letters at 3AM

The White House is intent on totalitarian measures and war; it employs incoherence because it cannot speak plainly of its machinations.

"...to speculate on or to suggest that he [Saddam Hussein] did. My point is that it's the nature of..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Short news items from Austin, the region, and the world

"...toward war with Iraq temporarily stumbled ... because Saddam Hussein gave him what he asked for. Iraq announced it..."

Sept. 20, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...U.S. in 1999, an Iraqi defector announced that Saddam Hussein had been playing around with the virus. Experts at..."

Sept. 20, 2002 News Feature

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"...States is not responsible for the "starving" in Iraqi, Hussein is. Control of a person's ration card is a..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Column

Naked City

Last week Austin Congressman Lloyd Doggett took the House floor to strongly oppose the Bush administration's drumbeat for unilateral military action against Iraq.

"...by the countries of the region. Of course, Saddam Hussein is a menace, as was Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, as..."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

File Waco Tribune-Herald publisher Rowland Nethaway's Sept. 9 Statesman column under the category, "Dead on Arrival.

"...he should have ignored international objections to overthrowing Saddam Hussein and marched directly on Baghdad. Nethaway believes it was..."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Who decided that the WTO rules the U.S.?; who decided that the U.S. rules Iraq?

"..."Yeah, we're gonna storm into Iraq and off Saddam Hussein," they dress up their assault plans in the more..."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Present and Future

H.W. Brands' scholarly specialty is U.S. foreign relations. So Tim Walker asked him to address some of the disintegrating ones.

"...to go ahead with an attempt to topple Saddam Hussein...."

Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker

Capitol Chronicle

Cheney's call to war is as illegitimate as ever.

"...justified in attacking Iraq, declared Cheney, not because "Saddam Hussein" (a symbolic demon concocted by U.S. propaganda to stand..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Column by Michael King

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