Month: May 2007

The Democrats should not have caved in to the president. They should have continued to send him bills with a timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. So he vetoes them. Eventually the president himself would cut off funds for the troops. As an alternative, Congress could inform the president that unless he accepts … Continue reading “Time for Congress To Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is”

The Washington, DC, think-tank, The American Enterprise Institute, camouflages its purpose with its name. There is nothing American about AEI, and the organization’s enterprise is fomenting war in the Middle East against Israel’s enemies. Its real name should be The Likud Center for Middle East War. AEI has the largest collection of warmongers in America. … Continue reading “How Can Bush Free Iraq When He Brings Tyranny to America?”

Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran’s president has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, “Israel must be wiped off the map.” Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made. On Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 at the Ministry of Interior conference hall in Tehran, newly elected Iranian President … Continue reading “‘Wiped off the Map’ – The Rumor of the Century”

Updated at 11:40 p.m. EDT, May 25, 2007The U.S. military reported that six more U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq yesterday. This brings the monthly tally up to at least 93 dead. At least 37 Iraqis were killed and 38 wounded in other events throughout Iraq. Fridays are usually less violent due to weekly prayers … Continue reading “Friday: 6 GIs, 37 Iraqis Killed; 38 Iraqis Wounded”

Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 518 pp., $28.00. Much has been and will continue to be written about the Bush administration’s disastrous adventure in Iraq. Irresponsible, ignorant, arrogant, incompetent – President George W. Bush and his aides bear the blame for … Continue reading “Winning the War, Losing the Peace”

Even as Congress moved to approve President George W. Bush’s request for continued funding of the Iraq war through the end of this fiscal 2007, a major new poll released Thursday found that public disillusionment with the war has reached record highs. The New York Times/CBS News poll, the latest in a series of recent … Continue reading “US Public, Republicans Disown Iraq War”

You would think that a political tendency such as the neoconservatives, one that has presided over a disastrous war which is increasingly unpopular, and which has unleashed a wave of resentment and even hatred against them, would just crawl back under the rock from whence they sprang and lay low for the duration. Not the … Continue reading “The Cabal Strikes Back”

The antiwar Democrats are crying betrayal – and justifiably so. For a Democratic Congress is now voting to fully fund the war in Iraq, as demanded by President Bush, and without any timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal. Bush got his $100 billion, then magnanimously agreed to let Democrats keep the $20 billion in pork … Continue reading “Why Congress Caved to Bush”

This week’s cave-in on Capitol Hill – supplying a huge new jolt of funds for the horrific war effort in Iraq – is surprising only to those who haven’t grasped our current circumstances. Public opinion polls aren’t the same as political leverage. The Vietnam War went on for years after polling showed that most Americans … Continue reading “Deadly Illusions, Rest in Peace”

In a recent inside-the-fold roundup of the previous day’s mayhem in Iraq, David S. Cloud, writing for my hometown paper, devoted 729 words to an account of American casualties from IEDs (“Six American soldiers and their interpreter were killed by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad…”), Iraqi Army, police, insurgent, and civilian casualties, and various … Continue reading “The Air War in Iraq Uncovered”