Updated at 12:05 a.m. EDT, July 22, 2007At least 103 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 91 more were wounded in the latest violence. A number of the dead were suspected militants who were killed in security operations in Baghdad and Diyala provinces. Also, a Task...
It is now clear that the proper name for the war going on in Mesopotamia is the "Republican War." Never before has a political party so decisively asserted ownership of a foreign war. The Republicans refuse to share it with the Democrats, who, despite their...
Well, if you're worried that Bush's next war of aggression will involve nukes, there's good news and bad news. First the Good News. The Cheney Cabal has apparently concluded that their previous ridiculous argument isn't working. That Iran's nuclear programs –...
President George W. Bush and his supporters live in the world of "what ought to be." The U.S. ought to be able to crush the insurgency, establish liberal democracy, and impose Western values in Iraq. America ought to be able to spread U.S.-style political systems...
It was a chilling moment on a split-screen of history. While the Senate debated the Iraq war on Tuesday night, a long-dead senator again renounced a chronic lie about congressional options and presidential power. The Senate was in the final hours of another failure to...
President Bush's announcement of a new Middle East summit is being dutifully reported as a move to "revive" the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, designed to culminate in a two-state solution. But the meeting, if it ever comes about, will be nothing of the sort. U.S....
This is a tale about politics, influence, money and murder. It began more than 40 years ago with a bloodletting so massive that no one quite knows how many people died. Half a million? A million? Through four decades, the story of the relationship between the United...
Responding to the call of Pope Urban II at Claremont in 1095, the Christian knights of the First Crusade set out for the Holy Land. In 1099, Jerusalem was captured. As their port in Palestine, the Crusaders settled on Acre on the Mediterranean. There they...
What in the name of all that's holy is going on with Russia and the Brits? The British government has recently expelled four Russian diplomats, supposedly in retaliation for the Russkis' refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoi – a suspect in one of the most bizarre...
The United States intelligence community's latest assessment of al-Qaeda and the threat it poses to the homeland appears to have both renewed questions about the wisdom of invading Iraq and returned the spotlight to an increasingly strife-ridden Pakistan. The latest...
