The iPINIONS Journal

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Ahmad Chalabi, former Iraqi exile (and dictator-in-waiting), is the man senior officials in the Bush administration have accused, on the record, of deliberately fooling the Pentagon, CIA and other international intelligence agencies with bogus information about stockpiles of WMDs that led to the invasion of Iraq. In fact, once the Americans realised that there were… Read more.

Angela Merkel, yesterday, looking more like a person just convicted of fraud than as the person just affirmed as Germany’s first female Chancellor. But, given the fractious nature of the election campaign and the uneasy coalition she has forged to govern the county, perhaps Merkel is already fearing the ides of March… In this recent… Read more.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali – the al Qaeda suspect who confessed to being ordered by Osama bin Laden to assassinate President Bush – was convicted yesterday by a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia. Perhaps this conviction will prove to Bush and his trials-be-damned Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, that U.S. courts are fully capable of… Read more.

My idea of a good TV drama series is 24 (on FOX) starring Kiefer Sutherland. And, for a good TV comedy series, Curb Your Enthusiasm (on HBO) starring Larry David gets my vote. Therefore, this commentary on Desperate Housewives (on ABC) is admittedly suffused with bias, if not condescension. But the fact that I could… Read more.

President Bush riding his troubles away with the Chinese Olympic cycling team on mountain bike trails in Beijing, China Last week, on the eve of President Bush’s 8-day diplomatic tour of Asia, I wrote this article in which I predicted that the highlight of his trip – a Beijing summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao… Read more.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black…. News and Politics Read more.

Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward has often referred to the “imperial presidency” to describe the accretion of power in the executive at the expense of the (constitutionally co-equal) judiciary and legislative braches of the U.S. government. But given the startling revelations this week about his role in the CIA leak investigation, one might now refer… Read more.

Yesterday, the imperial name of Lord Conrad Black of Hollinger International Inc. was added to the rogues gallery of corporate crooks – which includes Ken Lay of Enron, Bernard Ebbers of WorldCom, Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco and the Rigas family of Aldelphia Communications – that will be recorded in the annals of history as royalty… Read more.