‘David Pyne’ Archives
Bush Moves The Supreme Court To The Left
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (Looking Back to October 2005, when Bush was appointing judges that brought the Supreme Court to the Left: October 5, 2005) On Monday morning, President Bush announced his nomination of his longtime friend, White House Counsel Harriet Miers as his nominee for the vacancy created by the departure of [...]
Thinking The Unthinkable: Could Bush Actually Be Impeached?
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on the idea of Impeaching Bush for his decision to invade Iraq: July 5, 2005) On June 16th at the so-called ‘Downing Street memo hearings’, 122 House Democrats and members of the newly formed "Out of Iraq" caucus signed a petition to compel the President to declare an exit strategy [...]
U.S. Public Opinion Turning Against The War in Iraq
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on loosing support for the War in Iraq: June 30, 2005) Last week, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) introduced long overdue bi-partisan legislation that requires the President to declare a plan that begins withdrawing our troops by October 1, 2006. It has been encouraging to see that some [...]
GOP Conservatives Calls for U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on The War in Iraq, and how support was being lost: June 27, 2005) An increasing percentage of the American people and U.S. congressional and military leaders are coming to the conclusion that the United States is losing the counterinsurgency war in Iraq. Car bombings and attacks by [...]
Bush Will Host New Radical Shiite Prime Minister of Iraq
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on the Islamic Revolution in Iraq: June 24, 2005) In the latest setback to US policy in Iraq on May 3rd, following two and one half months of bickering which served to prolong the tenure of the outgoing pro-US government in Baghdad, the divergent groups represented in the newly-elected [...]
Reversing The Islamic Revolution in Iraq
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on the Islamic Revolution in Iraq: February 18, 2005) In the history of successful revolutionary movements, there is often one date that is used to signify their triumph—a turning point in which the correlation of forces shifted irreversibly in their favor. For the Communists, it is the [...]
Conservatives Celebrate Defeat of Moderate Utah Senator at GOP Convention
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back in Utah on the defeat of a Utah Senator: May 11, 2004) Something very historic happened at the Utah State Republican Convention which was held at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City last Saturday (May 8th). Utah's three-term incumbent Senator Robert Bennett was eliminated in the second [...]
The Real John F. Kerry
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on John F. Kerry: February 25, 2004) Ever since Governor Howard Dean's surprising loss and even more shocking rant and primal screech later that night, Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA) has emerged as the man to beat following two consecutive victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. Assuming Kerry [...]
Democratic Presidential Primary Race takes A Wild Turn
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on the Democratic Primary with John F. Kerry: February 11, 2004) With Senator John F. Kerry's big surprise win over Howard Dean in the Iowa caucuses on the night of January 19th, the Democratic presidential primary race has been thrown for a loop. The departure of former House Minority [...]
Bush Administration Gives Up Search for Mythical Iraqi WMD
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on how Nuclear Weapons where never actually made in Iraq: January 15, 2004) The headline of the January 7th edition of The Washington Post, a paper which has had arguably the best and most reliable coverage of the Iraq conflict, said it all-"Iraq's Arsenal Was Only on Paper Since Gulf [...]
Ramadan Attacks Demonstrate Increasing Success of Iraqi Resistance
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on the increasing resistance of The U.S. Military in Iraq, by the Iraqi Resistance: November 19, 2003) With the increasingly deadly spate of attacks by Iraqi resistance forces culminating in the November 2nd downing of a US Chinook helicopter killing 16 GIs in the second deadliest day of [...]
Iraq—The Next Vietnam?
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on how Iraq could be the Second Vietnam: September 3, 2003) Earlier this month, I attended the Biennial Convention of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies in southern California as a member of the Board of Directors of that laudable organization. I brought to the convention a [...]
Bush’s Race to Re-Election Hits a Speed Bump
“Post War” US Death Toll in Iraq Exceeds Combat Deaths During the War By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on the increasing amount of U.S. Casualties in the War on Terror in Iraq, and how Bush had hit a speed bump: August 29, 2003) With the announcement earlier this week of the latest US soldier killed in Iraq, the [...]
US Losing the War on Terror in Iraq
New Interim President of Iraq Hails From Shiite Terrorist Group By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on how the invasion of Iraq, helped increase the amount of terrorist strikes: August 28, 2003) With the terrorist bombing of the UN’s headquarters in Baghdad reportedly carried out by Al Qaeda last week which resulted in [...]
Bush Administration’s Post-War Plan for the Middle East is a Recipe for Disaster
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on How Bush's Plan to Invade Iraq, Would be a Recipe for Disaster: March 28, 2003) Earlier this month, the Bush administration unveiled plans to station a force of 200,000 troops in Iraq for an indefinite period of time. Only the day before, Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki [...]
Bush Presidency at Serious Risk if US Invades Iraq
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on How Bush was risking support for Wanting to Invade Iraq: March 18, 2003) On March 6th, President Bush gave another prime-time address containing increasing references reminiscent of Orwellian doublespeak in which he vowed to wage war upon Iraq "in the name of peace" if Saddam "refused [...]
The Sino-Russian Alliance is the Real Axis of Evil
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on the Russian Alliance: January 13, 2003) Second of Two Parts The Sino-Russian Alliance Will be Strengthened This week marks the 3rd anniversary of President Putin's ascension to power in the Russian Federation and the beginning of what I refer to as Cold War II which began with [...]
Predictions for 2003 – A Year of War
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on a Prediction of 2003: January 9, 2003) First of Two Parts The year 2003 will be a year of increasing global conflict and heightened danger for the United States as it risks overextending itself by committing to fight multiple conflicts simultaneously including a large-scale ground [...]
U.S. Policy of Accommodating Communist Leaders in Brazil and Elsewhere Self-Defeating
Bush Doctrine of Pre-emptive strikes Does not Apply to Marxist and Communist Regimes and Threats By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on Bush's Hypocrisy on fighting against dictators: December 20, 2002) More than two months ago, this author called for the Bush administration to prepare a new strategy to counter the [...]
The New Second Front in the War Against Terrorism
Incoming President of Brazil Supports Terrorism and Will Implement Anti-American Policies By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on the meeting of Bush and Lula da Silva of Brazil: December 19, 2002) At the meeting between President Bush and President Elect Lula da Silva of Brazil at the White House Tuesday, the US called [...]
The GOP’s Solution to Resolving the Trent Lott Controversy
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on the Controversy that is Trent Lott: December 17, 2002) have finally come up with the perfect solution to resolving the Lott debacle. It is that Senator Trent Lott Resigns as Majority Leader under behind-the-scenes pressure from the White House and endorses his current deputy, Don [...]
Who Lost Latin America?
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on how we lost Brazil to Communism: December 12th, 2002) Today, President Bush will meet with the newly-elected Communist-backed President-Elect of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula), at the White House. Both sides say they want close cooperation. Among the issues to be discussed [...]
Bush Administration Builds Overly Expensive Weapon Systems While Disarming US Military of Key Capabilities
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on The Bush Administration’s Policy on removing our missile and bombing technologies from the Military: December 6th, 2002) The Bush administration came into office with grandiose plans. During his 2000 presidential campaign, then President announced his intention to "skip a generation [...]
Bush Administration’s North Korea Policy at Odds with Its Belligerent Policy on Iraq
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on The Bush Administration's Policy on North Korea and Iraq: December 5th, 2002) On Oct. 16, the Bush administration disclosed that in July of this year, North Korea had been conclusively found to be in violation of the 1994 Agreed Framework in which it agreed to halt its development and [...]
Brutal Attacks Against Principled Opponents of Iraq War Un-American
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on What the Bush Administration Did to Get Public Support for an Invasion: November 28, 2002) As a former US military veteran, this author has been a big supporter of Pres. Bush's war against Islamist terrorists. Fighting the demented fanatics who viciously attacked us and murdered more [...]
Bush Administration Exaggerates Iraqi Threat to Build Support for Invasion
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on What the Bush Administration Did to Get Public Support for an Invasion: November 25th, 2002) Aggravated by administration hype about the growing threat from Iraq, many Americans have expressed near hysterical fears that Saddam is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons to use [...]
It’s Bush vs. the CIA on Iraq
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on The Risky US Plan to Invade Iraq , That Could Result in Thousands of Casualties: November 21st, 2002) Pres. Bush and his supporters in Congress have striven to convince the American people of the pressing need to invade Iraq because Saddam "might" be training terrorists to attack the [...]
Bush Administration Enforcing the Will of the United Nations on Iraq
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on The Bush Administration Urging the Will of The United nations on Iraq: October 7th, 2002) he seemingly never-ending war against Iraq over the past four years has certainly had a checkered history. It all began when Bill Clinton "wagged the dog," bombing Iraq in December 1998 in a bid [...]
Re-implement the Monroe Doctrine to Counter the Imminent Takeover of Brazil by the Far Left
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on The Presidential Elections in Brazil: October 8th, 2002) Note: This This is the final installment of a special two-part series on next week's presidential elections in Brazil. The standard-bearer of a Communist electoral coalition, Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, who has aligned [...]
Red Storm Rising Over Latin America
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on The Presidential Elections in Brazil: October 7th, 2002) Note: This is Part 1 of a special two-part series on the presidential elections in Brazil. With the Washington Times reporting earlier this week that the candidate of the Brazilian Workers' Party, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, [...]
Discerning the Difference between Just and Unjust Wars
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on How to Tell The Difference of Two Types of Wars: September 27th, 2002) In the debate which continues to be waged over whether the US should invade Iraq, there appears to be almost a complete lack of knowledge, regard or interest in the concept of just and unjust wars as applied by US [...]
Conservative Champion Bob Smith’s Primary Defeat Represents a Stunning Setback to the Conservative Cause
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on why Bob Smith's Defeat setback Conservatives: September 12th, 2002) This past Tuesday, we witnessed the defeat of two great conservatives in New Hampshire, legendary conservative giant, Senator Bob Smith, and former Senator Gordon Humphrey who was running for Governor. Conservative [...]
In the New Hampshire Senate Primary, Bob Smith is the Clear Choice for Conservatives
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on the New Hampshire Senate Primary, and the best choice to vote for: September 10th, 2002) The New Hampshire Senate Primary race this Tuesday is a classic contest between a staunch traditional Reaganite conservative and a fairly passionless and uncharismatic moderate. On one side, there [...]
What the Loss of Brazil to “the Reds” Would Mean for the United States
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on What Will Happen if Communism Came into Power in Brazil: August 30th, 2002) Were a Communist coalition under front-running presidential candidate Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva allied with Cuban President Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to take power in Brazil following [...]
Marxist May Win the Presidency in Brazil This Fall
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on what was going to happen in Brazil: August 30th, 2002) Brazil seems poised to elect the standard-bearer of a Communist-aligned coalition movement as its president this October. Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, the perennial candidate of Brazil's Communist-aligned Popular Front who continues [...]
War with Iraq Would Pose Major Risks for Bush Administration and America
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on The Bad Idea of Invading Iraq: August 28th, 2002) Note: This is the final installment of a special three-part series on the US plan to invade Iraq. As the Bush Administration forges ahead with planning for another US invasion of Iraq, it does so having failed to carefully consider [...]
Would another US invasion of Iraq be justified?
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on The Bad Idea of Invading Iraq: August 19th, 2002) Note: This is Part 2 of a special three-part series on the US plan to invade Iraq. President Bush is spending an increasing amount of time addressing his goal of overthrowing Saddam Hussein reportedly by way of a US invasion of Iraq [...]
Bush Administration Plan to Invade Iraq Dubious at Best
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on The Bad Ideas of Invading Iraq Without a Large Force: August 16th, 2002) Recent news reports indicate that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in an unprecedented move, has locked out the Joint Chiefs of Staff from further planning for the planned US invasion of Iraq. This action was [...]
Dispelling the Myth of the Demise of Communism
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on Why Communism is Still Going: June 14th, 2002) Despite the oft-expressed misconception that Communism died with a whimper in the bloodless revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1989-1991, today Communism is making somewhat of a comeback in much of the world to the point [...]
De-Facto Russian Membership Signals the End of NATO
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Look Back on Why NATO is Doomed: June 3rd, 2002) Earlier this week at the heavily guarded NATO summit in Rome, the NATO Council of 20 voted unanimously to make Russia its newest partner country. This landmark agreement grants de-facto NATO membership to Russia via its participation in a newly [...]
How to Improve US Security Against the Danger of Further Terrorist Strikes
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (A Reminder on why we decided to defend ourselves after the terrorist attacks: July 25, 2002) The suicide bombings of September 11, 2001 changed America forever. We will never forget the harrowing spectacle of the Twin Towers crashing and crumbling to the ground costing the lives of over 3000 [...]
The Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play it Again Sam! (another reminder of Bush Liberalism: July 10, 2002) Its primary season again and all across the country, there is a war being fought between the candidates of the Liberal Republican Establishment and the principled champions of the conservative grassroots members of the Republican Party [...]
Can the U.S. Really Trust Russian President Putin to be a Reliable Strategic Partner?
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (another reminder about Bush Liberalism: July 08, 2002) During the past several weeks, the world has seen the relationship between Russia and the West and particularly the US, radically transformed with a rapid succession of agreements including one to reduce the number of deployed strategic [...]
Bush’s Record Calls Into Question His Conservative Label
By David T. Pyne, Esq Play It Again Sam! (a reminder about Bush Liberalism: June 05, 2002) President George W. Bush, having won an extremely close and hard fought election in November 2000, has been attacked by liberal Democrats for being "too conservative" almost from the time he was elected. However, Bush's overall record since [...]
Bush’s Offer to Jointly Develop Missile Defense System with Russia Unwise
By David T. Pyne, Esq First Published On May 28 of 2002 In the wake of the recent signing of a sweeping new nuclear arms disarmament treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russian President Putin has reportedly accepted President Bush's invitation to join the US in the cooperative [...]
The Moscow Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty: Arms Control at its Worst
By David T. Pyne (Originally published in May of 2002) The soon to be signed Treaty of Moscow, which mandates that US and Russian deployed strategic nuclear warheads do not exceed 2200 warheads, is deeply flawed and will do little or nothing to reduce the threat posed by the Russian nuclear arsenal to the United States. One of [...]
New Nuclear Disarmament Treaty Heralds the Beginning of the End for the US as a Superpower
By David T. Pyne Part III, Bush-Putin Nuclear Reduction Treaty Series (first published in 2002) Earlier this week, President Bush announced his intention to sign a sweeping new nuclear disarmament treaty with the Russian Federation, stating his belief that "this treaty…would make the world more peaceful and put behind us the [...]
Do Russian Nukes Still Threaten the U.S.?
By David T. Pyne, Esq Part II of Bush-Putin Nuclear Reduction Treaty Series (First Published in 2002) As the recently released 2001 US Nuclear Posture Review has as one of its principle tenets for the Bush Administration's vast politically motivated reductions of the US strategic nuclear arsenal that Russia and its huge nuclear [...]
Bush’s Plan to Disarm U.S. of its Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Opposed by Pentagon
By David T. Pyne, Esq US and Russian arms control negotiators have reportedly reached an agreement on the terms for a new treaty between the US and Russia to reduce the size of the US arsenal to about 1700-2200 nuclear warheads each. President Bush has announced that he plans to sign it at the Bush-Putin summit in Moscow on May [...]
Conservatives Celebrate Defeat of Moderate Bob Bennett – David Pyne
by David T. Pyne Something very historic happened at the Utah State Republican Convention which was held at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City last Saturday (May 8th). Utah's three-term incumbent Senator Robert Bennett was eliminated in the second round of voting by the conservative state delegates. It was the first time in nearly a century that [...]
