^#smrgDERGİ The Progressive Magazine - June 2005, Vol: 69, Number: 6

4 Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild 6 Letters 8 Comment Energy Company Policy 11 No Comment Columns 12 Howard Zinn excoriates nationalism. 14 Nat Hentoff peels back a mask of moderation. 16 Ruth Conniff decries back-alley vasectomies. 18 On the Line Cover Debate 22 Abandonment of Iraq Is Wrong Erik K Gustafion Immediate withdrawal would cause huge problems. 26 U.S. out of Iraq Now Norman Solomon The American occupation is the problem. Feature 30 Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice Lloyd Axworthy The former Canadian foreign minister lambastes the Bush Administration. Culture 33 Will Durst coins slogans for the State Department. 35 Unembedded in Afghanistan Elizabeth DiNovella In Tizliban Country, a filmmaker shows what the Pentagon wants hidden. 38 Poem Wendell Berry Interview 39 Robert Fisk David Barsamian "Almost every day I go to the mortuary in Baghdad and find twenty or thirty people," says the Middle East correspondent for The Independent of London. "The Iraqis are paying a terrible, terrible price." 45 Books Anne-Marie Cusac pursues an argument with Saul Bellow 50 Molly Ivins describes Tom DeLay's trademark.