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This is the archive of editorials by Luis de Agustin published in American Fellowship between August 2002 and May 2006, the year the publication ceased operation. Articles by other authors such as General William E. Odom and Professor Andrew Bacevich, are not included.

Editorial Commentary - August '02 - April '06

Preface through 2006: American Fellowship advocates U.S. global primacy without world domination; offers critical commentary on the U.S. Iraq war, its reasons and costs, and makes forecasts and offers proposals for Iraq rebuilding and saving Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Build The New Covenant

Something has gone terribly wrong with our nation's leader. No honest person believes Iraq is a serious threat to our country, yet our President stirs the cauldron of war with the ease of brewing barbeque chili. Maybe G.W. Bush is the ultimate weapon because he doesn't give a hoot what the world thinks; but he misjudges evildoers or anyone opposing him as just punks.

The True Heart Of America

I must be a really brave guy. The leader of the Free World tells me I'm in mortal peril of imminent attack by Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, yet I respond, keep your powder dry. Maybe it's because President Bush has presented no credible evidence or compelling argument for freeing Iraq, as he calls it, or naked aggression, as I put it.

Fall From Grace

The fix is in at The White House to invade Iraq. The flea circus regime that can't bomb their way out of a pita pocket, we're told must be destroyed for their own good - and so the rest of us may sleep tight. Those of us who think it only polite for the Bush administration to provide America a credible reason for this foray by a quarter million US troops are thrown a slippery diet of fishy motives hawking the invasion.

King Without Robes

President Bush mistakes a mustache for a beard, Saddam Hussein for Osama bin Laden. On this farcical switcharoo, the President launches a thousand ships to perform a reckless and wholly unnecessary depilatory on Iraq, while in Afghanistan we lose the battle against terrorism.

Raining Camels - America Deceived

Recently a Washington humorist unconvinced we need to invade Iraq insisted Washington provide convincing proof, even if fabricated. An atom bomb strapped to a camel, for example. I don't even need the bomb, just the camel pointed in our direction. FDR counseled America we had nothing to fear but fear itself. G.W.B. tells America be afraid. Be very afraid.

The Shepherd And The Fox

In spite of the Bush administration's exquisite preparation to bludgeon Saddam Hussein, the master survivalist has outfoxed them at every turn and could spring the mother of all sideswipes. What does President Bush do if the President of Iraq demands to speak to the UN General Assembly? Deny him? Arrest him at JFK on charges as questionable as the motives for invading Iraq? Charging SH with war crimes might do; but first GWB needs a war.

Leading Into Temptation

This is the comment on the news story I told myself I would ignore: unworthy of comment, too cheap, too easy. I'm referring of course to the French Fry Congressman. Even if your only TV fare was "I love Lucy" and you thought Saddam Hussein was a breed of Siberian husky, you heard about the little known U.S. congressman who ordered the word "French" removed from all House Of Representatives cafeteria menus and French fries hereafter called "Freedom Fries." Obscure politician made instant celebrity by his stand for liberty, the French Fry Congressman, Ohio Representative, Bob Ney, chairman for House operations, said he wanted to send a message. Indeed he did.

Blind Faith

With the G.O.P. aggrandizing George W. Bush as the "warrior president" complete, and the Commander In Chief declaring the Battle of Iraq over, it should be again decent for erstwhile dissenters with Bush White House foreign policy to reenter American opinion waters.

No Preemption - No Problem

Last "Iraqi Freedom" Fig Leaf Falls

U.S. Troops Held Hostage to Bush Dream                                                                      

As President Bush watches his stated motives for invading and occupying Iraq fall and shatter on the ground like dying fruit from a diseased tree, all that manages to cling from the bogus war bough is "the freedom thing." Yet it strains theatric imagination to picture Deputy Secretary of Defense and Iraq II gray eminence Paul Wolfowitz saying to George W., "Mr. President, we have just got to go in and liberate the freedom starved people of Iraq. On the other hand . . . "You're right, Wolf, we got to free those people and make 'em democrats just like us." "Please, Mr. President, you're making me cry."

Fixing Operation Iraqi Freedom

Give Nod to Senior Clerics

All U.S. Troops Home by April 2004                                               

With one outstretched leg in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq the U.S. occupation in the Mideast looks like a plump roasting hen to the gathering Islamic "jihadis" or holy warriors. Before the U.S. war on Iraq began, the CIA warned that after the invasion and before any government could counter it, terrorist resistance would be the strategy used to embarrass the ruling power and turn it inept and unable to maintain authority.

Iraqi Clerics Remain Best U.S. Hope

End of  U.S. Domination - Start of Iraqi Dominion

U.S. Exit Strategy that Honors American Troops and Iraqi People

Time is not on the side of the U.S. in Iraq while the U.S. occupation refuses moderate,  senior Iraqi religious leaders greater power in drafting a national constitution. If Islam remains forced to the margin of U.S. reconstruction, it's a matter of months before moderate religious leaders cave to pressure from a disaffected populace, and along with the need to oppose extremist jihad, issue "fatwa" or religious edict opposing the U.S. led occupation.

Iraq is Final Bush Middle East Invasion

Real Battlefield Now Presidential Campaign

Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Others Safe From U.S. Attack

The good news is it's over when it's over. The better news is it's over. The much ballyhooed, eventual U.S. attack on Iran, Syria, Lebanon, or other Middle East states by order of President Bush is old fish.

Liberty For Iraqis - Chains For Americans

General Tommy Franks Fears Constitution's Suspension

Prepared Broadside Or Thoughtless Remarks?

A wise and genteel Daddy Warbucks should invade and benevolently occupy the United States and thereby defend its constitutional guarantees of liberty and democracy - just as The Freedom Bringer busily promotes them in Iraq. It might relieve four-star General Tommy Franks' fear of a U.S. Government suspending the Constitution.

Iraqi Cleric Goes Or Bush Iraq Dream Dies

U.S. Alternatives: Holy War, Civil War, Or Neutralize Ali Al Sistani   

The Bush administration continues making more changes in its plan to rule Iraq than a teen bride choosing a wedding gown. Any possibility however, that the United States will easily break off its marriage to Iraqi real estate or that the White House cares about the power of Iraq's most important citizen, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Husseini al Sistani, was dashed during President Bush's State Of The Union address.

Sistani Swims With Fishes Or Bush Iraq Dream Dies

"SECRETLY RECORDED BUSH - CHENEY TRANSCRIPT"

Iraqi cleric Ali al Sistani's rejection of the sovereignty plan for Iraq cooked up by the White House is the greatest impediment keeping them from doing what they wish with Iraq.

Heard At The White House

George W. & Barbara Bush on Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bombing

What The Oval Office Waffle Iron Repairman Heard

This report, having been sanitized for national security breaches, and recorded by a waffle iron repairman in the Oval Office, testifies to the iron willed resolve of President George W. Bush. Former First Lady, Barbara Bush enters to confer with her son, 43rd President of The United States.

Behold A Pale Horse - Send More Marines

Three U.S. House Members Support Troops

Other 432 Wait For Electoral Photo Op

As if insisting that the body politic of the nation is rotten, on November 18, 2005 the United States House authenticated the idea that "supporting the troops" in Iraq meant killing and mutilating more of them. All but three of the 435 members voted against a nonbinding resolution to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within six months. When the "nays" are someday asked, "What did you do during the war, Daddy?" they may answer, "I cut and ran."

There Will Be No War

George W. Bush No Madman He

Nuking Order Would Be First U.S. Casualty

President Bush continues reserving the option of nuking Iran's underground installations in order to heal the Iranians of their ambition to develop nuclear energy. His obsession with destroying bunkered facilities makes sense. They're the only place on earth US weaponry can't reach. But unless the US military possesses a secret nuclear bunker buster in defiance of recognized laws of physics, known munitions and their delivery modes cannot reach and destroy deep earth installations such as Iran's Natanz.

Operation Iraqi Freedom/New Dawn Revisited

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