Updated at 1:15 a.m. EST, Mar. 6, 2007At least 126 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead and another 196 Iraqis were injured, including 30 people who had been held captive and tortured in southern Iraq. Also, bombings and shootings continued in Baghdad despite the...
It had to happen sooner or later, and Barack Obama's startling rise to near the top of the Democratic presidential pack made it sooner – I'm talking about his speech to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). It starts out with a riff about his ride...
We should have known it was coming. Even though the Democratic Party rode the antiwar wave in to Congress last November, they've done little since to end the bloody war in Iraq. Just last week House Democrats met to discuss how best to halt Bush's request to send more...
Nothing reminds us more of how much the American constitutional system has been transformed, of just how extreme the "imperial presidency" has become, than Congress' generally woeful record in the second half of the last century and in the first years of this one to...
How much is the U.S. war on Iraq costing you? That depends on who you are. For Iraqis, Americans, or Brits who were killed, it cost them everything. I say it in that order because that is the order in numbers killed. So far, a conservative estimate of the number of...
Interviewed Feb. 14, 2007. Click here to listen. Our guest is Wayne White. He is an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute and former deputy director of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Analysis for the Near East and South...
Murder, Inc. Dear Justin, I am an adjunct political philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame. I gave a lecture on Abu Ghraib a few years back in which I basically expressed the ideas that you articulated in this column. So, thanks for putting it in print....
Updated at 2:15 a.m EST, Mar. 5, 2007U.S. troops re-entered Sadr City by the hundreds. No casualties were reported there, but 59 Iraqis were killed in separate events elsewhere, and another 23 were injured. Also, the family of a Navy corpsman said that he was killed...
Updated at 1:35 a.m. EST, March 4, 2007At least 61 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 40 were wounded during today’s attacks. Three American soldiers also lost their lives when a roadside bomb blasted their vehicle. In coalition incidents, a U.S. air strike in...
In a move that has surprised many foreign policy analysts here, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has appointed a prominent neoconservative hawk and leading champion of the Iraq war to the post of State Department Counselor. Eliot A. Cohen, who teaches military...
