26 March 2003 | Uncategorized | Joshua Samuel Brown
In China, the War in Iraq is getting unprecedented media coverage. But are the Chinese watching the same war? While CNN and other western-based media outlets put their own particular spin on the war in this, the fourth day of the American invasion of Iraq, they generally agree on that victory for America is at [...]
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26 March 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
Oh, this war: one day it’s a “cakewalk,” the next it’s a quagmire. Where oh where is the truth? As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld correctly noted yesterday [March 25], the media is claiming that we’re getting “bogged down,” yet here we are barely through Day Five and already U.S. forces are on the outskirts of [...]
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25 March 2003 | Uncategorized | Christopher Deliso
According to Richard Perle, there exists a "cozy relationship" between French president Jacques Chirac and Saddam Hussein. In fact, they’re even friends. Of course, such silly accusations represent nothing new. In the Neocons’ ongoing campaign against all things French, apparently not even the lowly French fry is safe. Yet the riposte was rather surreal. After [...]
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25 March 2003 | Uncategorized | Alan Bock
It looks as if it’s going to be a real war, not a video game, a TV "reality" show or a cakewalk. The apparent setbacks to the American battle plans over the weekend might well turn out to be less strategically significant than some would make them out to be. But they have demonstrated, as [...]
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24 March 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
Up until Saturday our “embedded” media was projecting images of Iraqis dancing in the desert, delirious with joy at the arrival of their “liberators,” but by Sunday morning the edges were already beginning to fray around the official story of a near-seamless “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” The U.S. media kept showing feel-good agit-prop as long as [...]
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24 March 2003 | Uncategorized | matt
[Editor’s note: Matt Barganier was too shocked and awed by events in Iraq to write this week’s column. In deference to the War Party’s superior gravitas, he decided to let some of his favorite militarists use the Collateral Damage space as a forum this morning. Unfortunately, CNBC’s Kudlow and Cramer were busy, so he had [...]
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23 March 2003 | Uncategorized | bsnider
As Antiwar.com’s Student Coordinator, I have spent the last nine months helping students across the country find speakers and direct them to local activist events. When I receive emails that ask “What can I do?” I tend not to reply: “Run out in the streets and protest.” Rather, I first recommend a less vocal approach: [...]
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22 March 2003 | Uncategorized | Thomas R. Eddlem
The first thing you need to know is that we are not at war. Had we been truly at war, Congress – the only body empowered under the U.S. Constitution to bring us into a war – would have declared it. But they have not. Congress long ago stopped following the Constitution they formally pledge [...]
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22 March 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
This day [March 19] has been too too depressing. Not only is the nation plunged into a horrific and unnecessary war – a war that will kill many thousands of innocents, bankrupt the country, and create a bloody chaos in the Middle East – but, to top it off, David Frum, the ex-White House speechwriter [...]
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21 March 2003 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
The much-anticipated "shock and awe" strategy breathlessly awaited by our image-hungry media has somehow morphed into a war of bluff and bluster. Instead of launching an all-out military assault, the U.S. military strategy is, at least initially, a political assault by the U.S. on the Iraqi leadership. The first sign of military action was a [...]
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