by Scott Horton Antiwar.com May 24, 2005 [Spoiler warning: This article gives away important details about the new movie.] 'For a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the Dark Times. Before the Empire.' — Ben Kenobi 'This is how liberty dies: with thundering applause.' — Senator Padme Amidala Many of us grew up on Star Wars, and some of us, as 10-year-olds on rainy Saturday afternoons, even spent time trying to piece...

By Scott Horton Antiwar.com May 12, 2005 'America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.' — George W. Bush October 7, 2002 Whew! Lucky for us, the smoking gun came in the form of 'Top Secret' notes, the authenticity of which is not disputed, of a briefing British Prime Minister Tony Blair received on July 23, 2002, from Richard Dearlove, then...

by Scott Horton Antiwar.com April 24, 2005 '[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power...