Updated at 12:01 a.m. EST, Nov.9, 2007At least 47 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 33 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. An MND-Center soldier was also killed during a roadside bomb explosion south of Baghdad yesterday, and the DOD reported that...
Author's note: Twenty-four former intelligence and national security officials delivered an urgent message Monday morning to the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, calling on them to hold the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey...
Despite his refusal to declare waterboarding illegal, President George W. Bush's choice to be his next attorney general overcame a significant hurdle Tuesday as the Senate Judiciary Committee narrowly endorsed his nomination. The Committee voted 11 to 8 to recommend...
Updated at 12:45 p.m EDT, Nov. 7, 2007At least 52 Iraqis were killed or found dead 38 more were injured in the latest incidents, which include the discovery of yet another mass grave near Baquba. A suicide bomber also injured at least 20 people in Kirkuk. No Coalition...
The recently published memoir of the late Arthur Schlesinger, the renowned American historian and former aide to U.S. presidents, recalls that whenever officials in Washington had pointed to signs of progress toward peace in the Middle East, Israeli diplomat Abba Eban...
You know there's trouble ahead when Iraq, in its present state, is the good news story for Bush administration policy. While various civilian and military officials from the president on down have been talking up "success" in Iraq and beating the rhetorical war drums...
The neocons are still winning. Four and a half years after the neocons tricked the nation into launching the most foolish military adventure in its history, the U.S. military continues to execute their policies. The occupation of Iraq and the six-year occupation of...
The Democratic presidential primary has been a real yawner, and I say that with a high degree of disappointment. After all, one never expected that the most vocal, visible, and credible antiwar voice to be raised this election season would come from the mouth of a...
Neoconservative godfather Norman Podhoretz has written that "as an American and as a Jew" he prays that President George W. Bush will attack Iran. He rests his case on his belief that 2007 is really 1938, that Iran is Nazi Germany, and that Mahmoud...
Torture is defined in many ways. To the Bush administration, nothing that it ever does is torture. In keeping with the notorious "Torture Memo" of August 2002, drafted primarily by Vice President Dick Cheney's chief counsel, David Addington, "enhanced interrogation...
