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...
Israeli Internal Assessments of Iran Belie Threat Rhetoric
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 –...
Chuck Hagel and the
Return of the Old Right
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...
The Crime of the Century
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,...
Hysteria at Herzliya
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...
Whither the Surge?
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...
Modern War and
Civilian Casualties
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...
Tuesday: 128 Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed; 270 Iraqis Wounded
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...
Who Is the Enemy?
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...
Demagoguery Posing as Scholarship
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....