From DaNang to Tal Afar, Bring ‘Em Home

A review of David Cortright's Soldiers in Revolt (Haymarket 2005) Of all the antiwar buttons I could wear, the only one I choose to pin on my coat or backpack is one that reads "I Support the Iraq Veterans Against the War." Not only does this express my opposition to...

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Pleading Incompetence

No one – including the Iranians at their (nonexistent) equivalent of our Los Alamos Laboratory – can make a nuclear weapon until they have managed to acquire multi-kilogram quantities of almost pure uranium-235, uranium-233, or plutonium-239. For that...

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Empowering the UN, Destroying US Sovereignty

Last month at its "World Summit" in New York, the United Nations took another big step toward destroying national sovereignty – a step that could threaten the United States in the future. The UN passed a resolution at this summit that, among other...

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A Second Take on Scooter-gate

Editorial note: The original version of this column, which ran on October 3, contained a number of errors involving dates, which I have now corrected. I have also added a significant amount of new material, so much that it is, for all intents and purposes, quite a...

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You Can’t Fight ‘Ists’ and ‘Isms’

Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, KIA 04/04/04. She is co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace. Sheehan was recently interviewed by Joshua Frank, author of Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush, published by Common Courage...

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Last One to Leave, Please Turn on the Lights

Recently, our top commander in Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., was brought back to the United States, officially to consult with George Bush on what the president still calls "our strategy for victory." Along with retiring Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers,...

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The Greatest Strategic Disaster in US History

Capitol Hill Blue, the Washington, D.C., publication that cultivates relationships with White House staffers, reports one White House aide saying, "It's like working in an insane asylum. People walk around like they're in a trance. We're the dance band on the Titanic,...

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Backtalk, October 2, 2005

England Sentenced to 3 Years for Prison Abuse It is another national disgrace that Pfc. England has been convicted in her court marshal and none of the senior commanders, including the commander in chief, have been indicted. I am a decorated/disabled Marine Corps...

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