Updated at 12:44 a.m. EDT, May 21, 2007Today in Iraq, the U.S. military reported that seven U.S. servicemembers lost their lives in separate incidents. At least 97 Iraqis were also killed or found dead and another 94 Iraqis were wounded. A South Korean soldier was...
Latino Soldiers Who Refused Iraq Speak Out
A U.S. Army medic who refused to load his gun in Iraq and then escaped through a base window in Germany rather than be deployed a second time returned home to Los Angeles this week after serving six months in a U.S. military prison. Augustin Aguayo, 31, was born in...
For Those Interested in Facts: They Hate Our Foreign Policy
"There are a lot of things that are different now [that the U.S. occupies Iraq], and one that has gone by almost unnoticed but it's huge is that ... we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia. Their presence there over the last 12 years...
Tenet, Nukes, and Stinking Smut
George Tenet, the Director of Central Intelligence responsible for providing to Congress at their request a National Intelligence Estimate that was used as the basis for the Joint Congressional Resolution Authorizing the Use of US Armed Forces Against...
A Czar’s Half-Life
President Bush has made one of the most curious, perhaps even baffling, appointments in recent memory, anointing three-star Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute as the administrations "war czar," to have direct control, perhaps even operational control, over the...
Saturday: 6 GIs, 95 Iraqis Killed; 65 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:25 a.m. EDT, May 20, 2007Minutes before British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Baghdad’s Green Zone for a surprise visit, mortars fell on the heavily fortified compound. However, 95 Iraqis were killed or found dead elsewhere, and another 65...
But Who Was Right Rudy or Ron?
It was the decisive moment of the South Carolina debate. Hearing Rep. Ron Paul recite the reasons for Arab and Islamic resentment of the United States, including 10 years of bombing and sanctions that brought death to thousands of Iraqis after the Gulf War, Rudy...
Surge Strategy Shows Weaknesses
More than three months into the implementation of U.S. President George W. Bush's "surge" strategy, skepticism over the likelihood of its success is still running high here. Except among neoconservatives, who have been the strategy's most enthusiastic...
Friday: 5 GIs, 89 Iraqis Killed; 42 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:15 a.m. EDT, May 20, 2007At least 89 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead today and another 42 were injured during violence. Included are two Iraqi ABC news reporters who were ambushed in the capital while on their way home after work. Also, five...
The Season of Hope
Ive been waiting for this moment for quite a long time, but I have to say I dont feel a whole lot of satisfaction about having been proved so indubitably right: "As the U.S. stumbles, or is pushed, into another unwinnable land war in Asia, the...


