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Juan Cole

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Yemen And Bahrain Both Pleaded

Yemen And Bahrain Both Pleaded

Juan Cole

Yemen and Bahrain both pleaded yesterday with Washington to employ non-military means to deal with the Iraq crisis. Since both governments are cooperating closely with the US military, it is hard to see such statements as more than fig leaves for public consumption. That is not to say the sentiments are insincere, only that these […]

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History News Network 1 20 03 Culture

History News Network 1 20 03 Culture

Juan Cole

History News Network 1-20-03: Culture Watch Why Are Arch Conservatives Ganging Up on the Middle East Studies Association? By Juan Cole I had never even heard of Stanley Kurtz before he began attacking the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). He is woefully misinformed about my professional association. As far as I can tell, he speaks […]

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Us Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

Us Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

Juan Cole

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld today sketched out his vision of a post-Saddam Iraq. He said it would be a country that was not attempting to acquire weapons of mass destruction. And, he said it would have a government that tended toward what we would think of as a democracy, but that neither a […]

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Rumsfeld on the Future of Iraq

Rumsfeld on the Future of Iraq

Juan Cole

From Juan Cole’s private archives. From ???@??? Tue Jan 21 02:57:47 2003 To: infoco@yahoogroups.com From: Juan Cole Delivered-To: mailing list infoco@yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 02:56:21 -0500 Subject: [infoco] Rumsfeld on the future of Iraq Reply-To: infoco-owner@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld today sketched out his vision […]

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Both Colin Powell And Condi Rice Have

Both Colin Powell And Condi Rice Have

Juan Cole

* Both Colin Powell and Condi Rice have by now openly come out in favor of the University of Michigan admissions system, which awards points for various factors, including poverty, location (the Upper Peninsula students get points) and also race. They are thus in direct opposition to the position of President Bush. But, I think […]

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New Bin Laden Letter Muhammad Al Shafii

New Bin Laden Letter Muhammad Al Shafii

Juan Cole

New Bin Laden Letter? Muhammad al-Shafi`i reports in Asharq al-Awsat today that the newspaper has acquired a copy of a letter purported to be from Usama Bin Laden and signed by him via an Islamic institute in Pakistan. The letter is a call by Bin Laden for an end to factionalism among (hardline) Muslims, especially […]

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French President Jacques Chirac Issued

French President Jacques Chirac Issued

Juan Cole

French President Jacques Chirac issued a blunt and forceful warning today to the Bush administration that for it to launch a unilateral attack on Iraq without a second, explicit UN Security Council resolution would constitute a breach of international law. Too right! It is absolutely unacceptable that the Bush administration should act in such a […]

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Chirac Warns Bush not to Launch a Unilateral Attack on Iraq

Chirac Warns Bush not to Launch a Unilateral Attack on Iraq

Juan Cole

[published from Cole’s private email archives, 6/30/12] Sat Jan 18 02:34:32 2003 To: infoco@yahoogroups.com From: Juan Cole Subject: Chirac warns on Iraq French President Jacques Chirac issued a blunt and forceful warning today to the Bush administration that for it to launch a unilateral attack on Iraq without a second, explicit UN Security Council resolution […]

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President Bush Yesterday Came Out

President Bush Yesterday Came Out

Juan Cole

* President Bush yesterday came out against the University of Michigan’s admissions process, calling it a quota system because it takes race into account. What a crock. Obviously quotas are bad, but the U-M system doesn’t employ them, and Bush knows it. He has just concluded that playing the race card two years before the […]

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