Month: February 2007

U.S. casualties, which are at a post-invasion high: According to an Associated Press analysis, more American troops were “killed in combat in Iraq over the past four months – at least 334 through Jan. 31 – than in any comparable stretch since the war began”; and February, with 34 American deaths in its first nine … Continue reading “Surging Into
Catastrophe in Iraq”

There has been a qualitative leap in military technology that makes all inherited conventional wisdom, and war as an instrument of political policy, utterly irrelevant, not just to the United States but also to any other state that embarks upon it. Nations should have realized this a century ago, but they did not. But there … Continue reading “Three’s a Crowd: Israel, Iran, and the Bush Administration”

Updated at 1:15 a.m. EST, Feb. 12, 2007 At least 114 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 130 were wounded in various incidents. These deaths comes a day after Gen. David Petraeus took formal command of U.S. troops in Iraq and during increased U.S. military activity in several cities. Also, an American soldier … Continue reading “Sunday: 114 Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed; 130 Iraqis Wounded”

Updated at 11:01 a.m. EST, Feb. 11, 2007 At least 87 Iraqis were killed and 41 wounded in various incidents. Also, U.S. authorities reported that three GIs were killed and four wounded yesterday during an explosion in the Diyala province. Also, U.S forces killed an American contractor on Monday. Three American soldiers were killed and … Continue reading “Saturday: 3 GIs, 87 Iraqis Killed; 4 GIs, 41 Iraqis Wounded”

NEW DELHI – As tension builds up in the Persian Gulf amidst the ongoing deployment of two United States aircraft carrier groups, India remains marginal to efforts for a diplomatic solution to the crisis over Iran’s nuclear activities, despite New Delhi’s long-standing friendly relations with Tehran. That is the principal message that emerged from Indian … Continue reading “India-Iran Ties Jeopardized by US Threats”

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are unwittingly playing Dr. Jack Kevorkian in helping the state of Israel commit suicide. For this is the inevitable consequence of the planned air and missile attack on Iran. The pockmarked, littered landscape in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan and the endless applicant queues at al-Qaeda and … Continue reading “Helping Israel Die”

As the fables about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction and clandestine ties with al-Qaeda began to unravel following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, the flagship of U.S. news reporting, The New York Times, took itself to task for its failure to challenge its news sources. “Information that was controversial then, and seems questionable … Continue reading “The Najaf Massacre: Annotated”

Gentle reader, you are probably unaware of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski’s damning indictment of the Bush Regime in his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 1, 2007, as the United States no longer has a media – only a government propaganda ministry. Brzezinski damned the Bush Regime’s war in Iraq … Continue reading “Criminals Control the Executive Branch”

Updated at 11:55 p.m. EST, Feb. 9, 2007 During a series of raids, Coalition troops killed a number of alleged militia members. Also, sectarian violence continued throughout the country despite a security crackdown. Overall, 35 Iraqis were killed and 54 more were injured. Three American servicemembers and a British soldier were also killed in separate … Continue reading “Friday: 3 GIs, 1 Briton, 35 Iraqis Killed; 54 Iraqis Wounded”

The court-martial of the first commissioned U.S. military officer to refuse to serve in Iraq ended abruptly Wednesday when the military judge overseeing the proceedings declared a mistrial over a technicality. At issue, according to the judge, Lt. Col. John Head, was an agreement first Lt. Ehren Watada signed admitting that he failed to deploy … Continue reading “Reprieve for Officer Who Denounced ‘Immoral War’”