It Takes No Courage To

The Great Enemy Of Any Totalitarian Regime Is Normalization And Trade.

It Had Run As A Column - I Had Worked At The Paper Since 1976, But The Column Had Been Running For 13 Years, And I Think It Was A Strong Column, Criticizing The War When The Paper Was Supporting It.

It Takes No Courage To Make War, Particularly If You're Not Going To Go And Your Children Are Not Going To Go.

The Publisher, Jeff Johnson, Who Has Offered Not A Word Of Explanation To Me, Has Privately Told People That He Hated Every Word That I Wrote. I Assume That Mostly Refers To My Exposing The Lies Used By President Bush To Justify The Invasion Of Iraq. Fortunately Sixty Percent Of Americans Now Get The Point, But Only After Tens Of Thousand Of Americans And Iraqis Have Been Killed And Maimed As The Carnage Spirals Out Of Control. My Only Regret Is That My Pen Was Not Sharper And My Words Tougher.

The Paper Nominated Me 12 Or 13 Times For The Pulitzer Prize.