Month: March 2007

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 security crackdown. Three American military deaths were also reported.The U.S. … Continue reading “Monday: 126 Iraqis, 3 GIs Killed; 196 Iraqis, 1 GI Wounded”

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 in an IDF helicopter and how this made him … Continue reading “A Horse of a Different Color”

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 troops into the region, but they … Continue reading “Time to Put Politics (and Dem Politicians) Aside”

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 exert any significant control over or brakes on White House … Continue reading “Will Iraq Become the Democrats’ War?”

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 Iraqi civilians killed in … Continue reading “How Much Is the War on Iraq Costing You?”

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 Asia. Horton: Welcome to the show, sir. White: My pleasure. … Continue reading “What Sort of Greeting Should We Expect in Iran?”

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. When I was in college back in … Continue reading “Backtalk, March 5, 2007”

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 by an explosive device in Ramadi on Thursday, while … Continue reading “Sunday: 59 Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed; 23 Iraqis Wounded”

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 Arab Jabour killed seven suspected al-Qaeda members. Two gunmen were … Continue reading “Saturday: 61 Iraqis, 3 GIs Killed; 40 Iraqis Injured”

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 history at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) here and … Continue reading “Rice Picks Neocon Champion of Iraq War as Counselor”