Updated at 7:35 p.m. EDT, May 5, 2008At least 48 Iraqis were killed and 104 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Most of the violence occurred in and around Sadr City. No Coalition deaths were reported. Hospital sources in Sadr City reported six dead and 44...
Although the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. has treated us to nutty and racist rants, which included saying that the even more bigoted Minister Louis Farrakhan is one of the greatest voices of the 20th and 21st centuries, and that the U.S. government was capable of having...
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana On 9/11, we were told "this changes everything." The terror attacks on New York and Washington were painted as one-of-a-kind events without historical parallel. In reality, they were...
The last war won't end, but in the Pentagon they're already arguing about the next one. Let's start with that "last war" and see if we can get things straight. Just over five years ago, American troops entered Baghdad in battle mode, felling the Sunni-dominated...
CNN reports that George W. Bush, with his disapproval rating shooting past 70 percent, is the most unpopular president in modern American history, or as long as they've been polling the question – less beloved than Richard Nixon in the weeks prior to his...
Five years since U.S. President George W. Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech, critics say the administration has yet to show a credible way to actually "accomplish" the mission that could see a peaceful Iraq and a return home of U.S....
DAMASCUS - "I'll go to any country," says Zirgon Tomas al-Aya, a 60-year-old Iraqi standing outside the UN Refugee Agency headquarters in Damascus. "I like Syria but I can't work here, I want to go somewhere else," said the asylum seeker, one of...
Updated at 7:42 p.m. EDT, May 4, 2008At least 33 Iraqis were killed and 66 more were wounded in the latest violence. Mosul was the scene of numerous small attacks, but clashes in Sadr City continue to claim the most lives. No Coalition deaths were reported. In...
The economy seems to have overtaken the war as a live concern for potential voters, which to a great extent reflects the economic uncertainty many people are feeling – more than may be warranted by their own personal prospects, but real enough to affect political...
While you're anxiously awaiting a determination by the neo-crazies as to whether the Bush-Cheney White House must launch yet another war of aggression in the Middle East to remove a "threat" to our Major Non-NATO Ally, Israel, or whether launching that war...
