Month: January 2007

Updated at 3:35 a.m. EST, Feb. 1, 2007 At least 273 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead today; this includes 210 suspected militants killed by the Iraqi Army over the last two days. Another 72 Iraqis were injured in violent attacks throughout the country. Also five U.S. servicemembers were reported killed in separate incidents. … Continue reading “Wednesday: 273 Iraqis, 5 GIs Killed; 72 Iraqis Injured”

When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared last week at the Herzliya conference that Israel could not risk another "existential threat" such as the Holocaust, he was repeating what has become the dominant theme in Israel’s campaign against Iran – that it cannot tolerate an Iran with the technology that could be used to make … Continue reading “Israeli Internal Assessments of Iran Belie Threat Rhetoric”

Sen. Chuck Hagel’s interview with GQ, no less, is interesting on a number of levels – as a barometer of his status as “the new McCain,” as the statement of an antiwar Republican of the Old Right school, as an expression of sheer outrage at the deception that dragged us into war – but one … Continue reading “Chuck Hagel and the
Return of the Old Right”

President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq is the greatest crime of the 21st century. Armed with a powerful moral case against Bush, whose lies are responsible for a war that has caused thousands of U.S. casualties and killed vast numbers of Iraqi civilians, Democratic leaders are damning Bush’s war because it did not succeed! … Continue reading “The Crime of the Century”

When Congress finally decides on just the right language for its “non-binding resolution” deploring Bush’s leadership in this war, it might consider a resolution to keep us out of the next one. For America is on a collision course with an Iran of 70 million, and the folks who stampeded us into Iraq are firing … Continue reading “Hysteria at Herzliya”

According to President Bush, the additional 21,500 U.S. troops to be deployed in Iraq will provide "the force levels we need" to secure Baghdad. The president would have us believe previous lack of success is because "there were not enough Iraqi and American troops to secure neighborhoods that had been cleared of terrorists and insurgents" … Continue reading “Whither the Surge?”

Antiwar.com is pleased to announce the winners of its first-ever Student Essay Contest, held summer 2006. Today we present Hilary Worden of the United States, third place winner in the senior division. Alexia Gilmore Executive director, Antiwar.com “[T]he very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.” – Murray … Continue reading “Modern War and
Civilian Casualties”

Updated at 11:58 p.m. EST, Jan. 30, 2007 During the final day of the holy festival of Ashura, 128 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 270 wounded in violent attacks, many directed at pilgrims. Also, two American servicemembers were reported killed in separate incidents. U.S. military authorities reported that a Marine was killed in … Continue reading “Tuesday: 128 Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed; 270 Iraqis Wounded”

Two incidents involving U.S. forces in predominantly Shia southern Iraq over the past week appear to demonstrate the growing complexities and dangers of the country’s civil conflict. Sunday’s day-long battle near Najaf, in which two U.S. pilots were killed when their military helicopter was shot down, was first reported as an attack by Sunni insurgents … Continue reading “Who Is the Enemy?”

Dinesh D’Souza, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University, has raised a ruckus in his new book The Enemy at Home. In the book, he contends that the 9/11 attackers were motivated by neither U.S. foreign policy abroad nor by a hatred of U.S. freedom, as President Bush has repeatedly argued. Instead, … Continue reading “Demagoguery Posing as Scholarship”