Those cowards in the U.S. Senate wouldn't be put on the record as having voted in favor of the $87 billion appropriation for waging war on Iraq – they preferred a voice vote. When it came time to speak out, very few were actually in the Senate chambers, and the...
There was hardly anything left of the helicopter shot down by Iraqi insurgents on Sunday, in which 15 were killed and 21 seriously wounded: the thing seems to have disintegrated even quicker than the administration's case for starting this war in the first place....
On the surface, the Vietnam war and the attack on Iraq by U.S. forces don't have much in common. In the 1960s, when the Vietnam conflict was at its height, the United States was in a global face-off with a rival of comparable size and power, the Soviet Union. Our...
Paul Wolfowitz's second visit to Iraq was supposed to underscore the "good news" about the U.S. occupation – how the Americans are building schools, roads, and credibility with the Iraqi people. Instead, it turned into an object lesson in how the country is on...
Retired Captain Ward Boston, a former U.S. Navy attorney who was senior legal counsel to the military investigation of the near sinking of the U.S.S. Liberty by the Israelis, in 1967, has finally revealed the truth in a signed affidavit: "For more than 30 years, I...
The leak of a memo written by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld confessing that the Iraq war is going to be "a long, hard slog" has dealt a body blow to the War Party – and signals a new level of desperation on the part of the radical clique that lured us...
It was just a brief item published in the New York Times, reporting yet another attack on our soldiers in Iraq: one American paratrooper killed, six wounded. At first glance, "One G.I. Killed in New Attack in Falluja" gave no hint of the horror behind the headline,...
With plummeting morale among the soldiers in Iraq, and dive-bombing poll numbers at home, the administration is planning a gradual reduction in U.S. occupation forces – or are they? The Washington Post announced the "exit strategy" in a front page story in...
As we pull, and tug at the spam propaganda story – those fake "good news" letters from Iraq sent out to 500 newspapers, signed by different soldiers – the whole fabric of this odd little episode begins to come apart, revealing a whole other layer underneath....
Remember Ali Abbas, the cute little tyke whose arms were blown off by his American "liberators"? He's calling down vengeance on the heads of his tormentors: "Ali Abbas, the 13-year-old boy who lost both his arms and much of his family in the bombing of Iraq, says he...
