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"...Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal, S&L boondoggle, support for Saddam Hussein. The USA's history is peppered with these scandals, but..."

July 25, 2003 Column

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The Rodriguez and Avellán film team rocks; the guv and Lege do not; waiting on Will Wynn & Company; and in Let Us Now Praise Famous Chroniclers.

"...last issue's "Page Two" had me saying, "that Saddam Hussein didn't use WMDs seems to suggest he doesn't have..."

July 25, 2003 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Lowdown

George talks the macho talk, soldiers walk the deadly walk; and Congress says "Health care for me, but not for thee."

"...sudden war fever over Iraq, declaring he'd "get" Saddam Hussein and cause the Iraqis to "love" us. Well, it..."

July 25, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Killer D Update: The FAA and Exterminatin' DeLay

The FAA issues a shame-faced report about its hunt for the Killer D's.

"...in the search for Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein rather than opposition truants." In fact the Times is..."

July 25, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

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Republicans' special-session maneuvering shows contempt for Texans and mischaracterizes Texas' political history; the same party asks for the same kind of blind allegiance on foreign policy.

"...as ingenuous my assertion that the fact that Saddam Hussein didn't use WMDs seems to suggest he didn't have..."

July 18, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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"...moral stretch to opine that the only way stopping Hussein's regime made sense is if he was moments away..."

July 18, 2003 Column

Naked City

Headlines

"...misled the country when he described a nonexistent Saddam Hussein WMD uranium-procurement program in his State of the Union..."

July 18, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

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"...Middle East or even within the United States. Saddam Hussein was a monster and had to go. The United..."

July 11, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...bookends: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction" (Sen. Joe Lieberman,..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Hightower Report

The Bushites lie about WMDs and media conglomeration.

"...Mass Destruction that George W. so absolutely insisted Saddam Hussein had targeted at the U.S., posing the imminent threat..."

May 30, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

TCB

Takin' it to the streets with the Dixie Chicks, Real Heroes, Ash, and Onion Creek Crawdaddies

"...maybe Lloyd Maine's daughter isn't quite the seditious Saddam Hussein sympathizer the Fox News Channel has made her out..."

May 30, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

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"...be another idiot speaking up. The inane, inappropriate Saddam Hussein-era Iraq/Nazi Germany comparison carries almost as much meaning as..."

May 23, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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"...than some states. More than those imprisoned by Saddam Hussein or any other dictator presently blighting the planet...."

May 9, 2003 Column

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"...than some states. More than those imprisoned by Saddam Hussein or any other dictator presently blighting the planet...."

May 2, 2003 Column

Big in Yemen

Bob and Tucker Livingston conquer the Middle East through songs not arms.

"...briefly featured a vignette about George Bush and Saddam Hussein yodeling for world peace ("It's impossible to yodel and..."

May 2, 2003 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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"...was because Mr. Bush had a vendetta against Mr. Hussein, but that didn't fly so it became an egg..."

April 25, 2003 Column

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...Iraqi airwaves with a rap parody that links Saddam Hussein's woes to smoking marijuana. Rapped to the tune of..."

April 25, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Letters at 3AM

Winning the war in Iraq is not a measure of our country's morality.

"...his team have privately described the confrontation with Saddam Hussein as something of a demonstration conflict ... 'Iraq is..."

April 18, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

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If we want to make sure this country remembers its commitment to Iraq and does not get into other military misadventures, a new kind of political activism must evolve.

"...and wish we hadn't invaded (though the end of Hussein's dictatorship has to be regarded as a positive, except..."

April 11, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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"...According to this version we are to equate Saddam Hussein with an unarmed farmer who defies the greedy cattle..."

April 11, 2003 Column

The Reason Why

"...on the trauma of 9/11, have falsely linked Saddam Hussein's Iraq to that tragedy and then falsely built him..."

April 11, 2003 News Feature by George McGovern

'Showdown in Texas' Takes on Bush in His Old Back Yard

The American Friends Service Committee's May 3 rally aims to be a global multi-issue challenge to the Bush agenda.

"...In recent months, the U.S. government's war against Saddam Hussein and Iraq has attracted tens of thousands of Americans..."

April 11, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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"...inferred that Bush was worse or as bad as Hussein, and of course, war for oil. The very next..."

April 4, 2003 Column

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The war in Iraq has diverted our attention from other important matters, including a truly destructive proposed federal budget, mirrored by Texas' very own fiscal abyss.

"...you could stop this war tomorrow, would you? Leaving Hussein and/or his government in power with the oil resources..."

April 4, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM

Thoughts on the war's explosions of bombs, dreams, and preconceptions.

"...Muslims who complained about their bad treatment under Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated government -- are now saying they are against..."

April 4, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

TV Eye

How to resolve conflict? Japanese import Iron Chef has the right idea.

"...I've been thinking about Bush and Hussein trading blows in some hole somewhere. But then I..."

April 4, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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As horrifying as the war in Iraq is, the wages of peace could be worse, and for longer.

"...justification. It is not necessary to produce evidence tying Hussein to terrorism, to weapons of mass destruction, or as..."

March 28, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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"...not wary of what many have been through under Hussein's tyranny. Yes, mistakes we have made, and they are..."

March 28, 2003 Column

The Home Front

Various dispatches from the anti-war movement around Austin.

"...option." She would prefer dealing with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein via a war crimes tribunal, which would spare the..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature

TV Eye

War, basketball, and the Oscars: Reality programming faces new challenges.

"...the rhetoric of seeking justice for the evils Saddam Hussein has unleashed upon his own people? Is justice only..."

March 28, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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