Updated at 11:00 p.m. EDT, May 26, 2007At least 91 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 116 more Iraqis were injured on a day punctuated by deadly raids in Baghdad and Basra. Nine Iraqis were kidnapped. Four U.S. servicemembers were killed today in Iraq, while the...
In a recent inside-the-fold roundup of the previous day's mayhem in Iraq, David S. Cloud, writing for my hometown paper, devoted 729 words to an account of American casualties from IEDs ("Six American soldiers and their interpreter were killed by a roadside bomb in...
This week's cave-in on Capitol Hill – supplying a huge new jolt of funds for the horrific war effort in Iraq – is surprising only to those who haven't grasped our current circumstances. Public opinion polls aren't the same as political leverage. The Vietnam...
The antiwar Democrats are crying betrayal – and justifiably so. For a Democratic Congress is now voting to fully fund the war in Iraq, as demanded by President Bush, and without any timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal. Bush got his $100 billion, then...
You would think that a political tendency such as the neoconservatives, one that has presided over a disastrous war which is increasingly unpopular, and which has unleashed a wave of resentment and even hatred against them, would just crawl back under the rock from...
Even as Congress moved to approve President George W. Bush's request for continued funding of the Iraq war through the end of this fiscal 2007, a major new poll released Thursday found that public disillusionment with the war has reached record highs. The New York...
Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 518 pp., $28.00. Much has been and will continue to be written about the Bush administration's disastrous adventure in Iraq. Irresponsible, ignorant,...
Updated at 11:40 p.m. EDT, May 25, 2007The U.S. military reported that six more U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq yesterday. This brings the monthly tally up to at least 93 dead. At least 37 Iraqis were killed and 38 wounded in other events throughout Iraq. Fridays...
While the White House has often denied having a Plan B for Iraq, it turns out that the Pentagon has thought about what to do if Plan A, the "surge" doesn’t work. According to Steve Inskeep and Guy Raz of National Public Radio, plan B would involve...
The Ron Paul Effect In the dozen-plus years I have been active in matters relating to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, I have watched them go from a small Islamist organization to a worldwide insurgent movement, while bin Laden has established himself as the primary...
