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Among the most laughable excuses for invading Iraq was the one that said that the U.S. government invaded the country to help free the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein’s tyranny. That was the big excuse that was trotted out after the WMD excuse proved to be unfounded.
For one thing, there was never any concern for the well-being of the Iraqi people prior to the invasion. Recall, for example, the 11 years of brutal sanctions that preceded the invasion. Year after year, the Iraqi people were suffering economic devastation from the sanctions. Even worse, Iraqi children were dying by the thousands every year. In fact, the mindset of U.S. officials was captured perfectly by U.S. Ambassador the United Nations Madeleine Albright, who declared that the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the sanctions was “worth it.” That was in 1996, and there wasn’t a peep of protest from her boss, President Clinton, or any other U.S. official. That’s undoubtedly because ...
The common perception is that North Korea’s communist regime brutally tortured 22-year-old American citizen Otto Warmbier, leaving him in a coma from which he never recovered. Warmbier died soon after being returned to the United States in a vegetative state. Ever since, President Trump and other U.S. officials, along with Warmbier’s parents, have claimed that Warmbier’s coma was the direct result of brutal torture at the hands of North Korean officials.
Yet, the question has to be asked: Did the U.S. government play a role in Otto Warmbier’s death?
North Korean officials claimed that Warmbier contracted a case of botulism, which, they said, was compounded by a sleeping pill that Warmbier ingested, which then, they claimed, threw him into a coma.
American doctors generally expressed skepticism about North Korea’s claim. They said that botulism, while dangerous, doesn’t ordinarily cause a person to go into a vegetative state. Moreover, physicians who treated Warmbier on his return found no evidence of botulism, but that ...
It was exciting, eventful, and enjoyable! I’m referring, of course, to our second College Civil Liberties Tour, which took place out west last week. At each of the five events, the audiences, which ranged in size from around 140-200, were enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and passionate. They consisted predominantly of college students but there were also plenty of non-students at the events, including a member of Congress and a man named Bert Sacks, who fought a heroic and successful fight against the federal government’s levy of a $10,000 fine on him for taking medicines to Iraq in violation of the brutal sanctions that the U.S. government enforced against Iraq during the 1990s.
The Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), the co-sponsor of the tour, did a fantastic job of selecting the venues, organizing each event, and promoting it. Our panels consisted of Glenn Greenwald, the noted liberal who now writes for the Guardian, Bruce Fein, the noted conservative who worked in the ...
