Month: June 2007

Updated at 11:11 p.m. EDT, June 30, 2007At least 149 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 62 Iraqis were wounded during the latest attacks. Most were killed during U.S. raids in Baghdad, a suicide bombing in Muqdadiyah or found in a mass grave near Fallujah. Also, an American soldier was killed and three more … Continue reading “Saturday: 1 GI, 149 Iraqis Killed; 62 Iraqis Wounded”

By the time this sees cyberprint more is likely to be known. Beyond the certainty that it was much too early on Friday to draw many of the conclusions some talking heads on television were speculating about, it’s prudent to wait for more facts before taking hard-and-fast lessons. At the least, however, the apparent thwarted … Continue reading “London: The Iraq Connection”

Admiral Horatio Nelson is reliably reported to have put his telescope to his blind eye in order not to "see" the order Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, the overall commander of the British fleet at the naval battle of Copenhagen, had sent Nelson – via hoisted signal flags – to break off his attack. Hence the … Continue reading “Tenet’s Blind Eye”

Updated at 11:01 p.m. EDT, June 29, 2007Five American troops were killed and seven wounded during a roadside bomb and small arms attack on their patrol. These deaths make this the deadliest quarter for GIs since the war began. At least 52 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 45 more were wounded during the … Continue reading “Friday: 5 GIs, 52 Iraqis Killed; 45 Iraqis Wounded”

The uncovering of the CIA’s "family jewels" – a catalog of the Agency’s crimes committed at home and abroad in the 1970s – underscores my principal objection to the trite post-9/11 conventional wisdom, "Everything’s changed." Because, of course, nothing has changed, not really, at least not where the unmitigated evil of the U.S. government is … Continue reading “The ‘Family Jewels’”

What was anticipated in September, the retreat of the old bulls of the Republican Party from the Bush war policy, happened in June. The beginning of the end of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war is at hand. “I rise today,” said Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana on Monday, “to offer observations on the continuing … Continue reading “The Retreat of the Old Bulls”

In a week dominated by the CIA – the Agency of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s – it might be easy enough to forget the Agency of the new century, the one known for creating its own offshore Bermuda triangle of injustice, including a global system of secret (or borrowed) prisons, as well as for … Continue reading “What Tenet Knew”

Editor’s note: Antiwar.com Assistant Editor Scott Horton wrote the following essay for the Oxford Forum, whose editors asked him to contribute a piece on the Anglo-American role in international conflict. Unfortunately, the Forum‘s editors rewrote the essay without Horton’s permission, distorting its thesis beyond all recognition. It appears here in its full, original version. Most … Continue reading “Saving England Wasn’t Worth It”

The best that can be said about the upcoming presidential election is that in January 2009 President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney will be out of office. It is tempting to believe that their successors couldn’t be worse. Yet only the “second tier” 2008 aspirants offer a clear break with the Bush … Continue reading “Presidential Hawks,
Left and Right”

Updated at 12:25 a.m. EDT, June 29, 2007At least 89 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 100 were wounded during the latest attacks. Most of today’s victims were civilians caught in bomb or mortar attacks in Baghdad. Also, two American and three British soldiers were killed in separate incidents. An American soldier was … Continue reading “Thursday: 3 Britons, 2 GIs, 89 Iraqis Killed; 100 Iraqis Wounded”