Month: June 2008

Updated at 11:46 p.m. EDT, June 4, 2008At least 70 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 124 more were injured in the latest violence. The deadliest bombing in months bombing occurred in the capital, while two mass graves were found. Also, gunmen killed three American soldiers during an attack in Hawija today. In Baghdad, … Continue reading “Wednesday: 3 US Soldiers, 70 Iraqis Killed; 124 Iraqis Wounded”

If you want to know what the future holds in store, just take a look at what John McCain said recently to the AIPAC conference: “Rather than sitting down unconditionally with the Iranian president or supreme leader in the hope that we can talk sense into them, we must create the real-world pressures that will … Continue reading “Will Obama Stand Up to the War Party?”

SEATTLE – In a clear change of strategy to energize public antiwar sentiment, Iraq veterans led a determined demonstration of hundreds through the streets of downtown Seattle last Saturday, following regional Winter Soldier hearings at the Seattle Town Hall. A larger Winter Soldier event occurred at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland from … Continue reading “Winter Soldiers Hit the Streets”

American soldiers have long scrawled messages to the enemy on the bombs they were about to deliver. In the The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes reminds us, for instance, that “Little Boy,” the bomb that would inaugurate a new age over Hiroshima, “was inscribed with autographs and messages, some of them obscene. ‘Greetings … Continue reading “‘Atrocity-Producing Situations’”

Matilda is waltzing home from Iraq, and the Australians are lucky but chastened. Lucky for having lost not one soldier in combat of the 2,000 sent to join the "coalition of the willing" attack on Iraq in March 2003. Chastened because Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is now pulling no punches in decrying the subservience … Continue reading “Australia Bolts Iraq Over Bush’s Lies”

Updated at 7:50 p.m. EDT, June 3, 2008At least 18 Iraqis were killed and 34 more were wounded in the latest violence. One U.S. soldier died from non-combat-related causes this morning. Also, Iran resumed shelling suspected Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) rebel locations northeast of Arbil. In Baghdad, three dumped bodies were discovered. … Continue reading “Tuesday: 1 US Soldier, 18 Iraqis Killed; 34 Iraqis Wounded”

In a major address on Middle East policy Monday, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, pledged to maintain the Bush administration’s hard line against Iran and expressed strong skepticism about the ability of the current Palestinian leadership to reach a peace accord with Israel. McCain, who was speaking at the opening session … Continue reading “McCain Vows to Stay the Course in Middle East”

Like alcoholics queuing up for drinks at closing time, the U.S. government is pressing charges against prisoners at Guantánamo at a frantic rate, anxious to be seen as validating the chronic lawlessness of the last seven years before November’s presidential election. At the end of last week, four more prisoners were put forward for trial … Continue reading “Last Call at Gitmo”

SEATTLE – Dozens of veterans from the U.S. occupation of Iraq converged in this West Coast city over the weekend to share stories of atrocities being committed daily in Iraq, in a continuation of the Winter Soldier hearings held in Silver Spring, Md., in March. At the Seattle Town Hall, some 800 people gathered to … Continue reading “Iraq Vets: ‘Enough Is Enough. It’s Time to Get Out’”

For many months, the propaganda line that explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) that could penetrate U.S. armored vehicles were coming straight from Iran has been embraced publicly by the entire George W. Bush administration. But when that argument was proposed internally by military officials in January 2007, it was attacked by key administration officials as unsupported … Continue reading “How Cheney Outfoxed His Foes on Iran and EFPs”