Updated at 1:35 p.m. EST, Feb. 7, 2007 Violence has tapered off somewhat from the high of the weekend, but at least 64 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 55 were wounded. Also, officials reported that a GI was killed southwest of Baghdad and two...
The Crime of the Century We can easily analyze (1) the deceptions in Bush's Iraq policy, (2) the generally subservient response of the Democrats in Congress as they try to determine how little pressure they can put on the president … and (3) the insane promotion...
Recently I ran into a colleague from the Naval Postgraduate School, where I teach, and got into an interesting conversation. It highlighted the differences between how I think of the world and how many pro-U.S. government people, and pro-government people in general,...
Having destroyed the Iraqi state, and murdered some 600,000 Iraqis in the process, the War Party is now denying all responsibility for the subsequent civil war threatening to plunge the nation into a maelstrom of sectarian violence. Hard to believe, I know, but here's...
Updated at 10:25 p.m. EST, Feb. 5, 2007 Increased violence continues across Iraq ahead of a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown. At least 83 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 136 were wounded. Also two GIs and a British soldier were killed in separate...
Updated at 12:41 a.m. EST, Feb. 5, 2007 A day after a large bombing attack killed or injured hundreds in Baghdad, smaller bombings continued to plaque the capital. Throughout the country, 115 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 127 were injured in various...
We can expect a weak, non-mandatory, strictly advisory resolution from the Senate next week declaring open dismay at President Bush’s latest bit of strategery in Iraq. This could be an important first step – depending on whether other significant steps...
A long-awaited study [.pdf] by the U.S. intelligence community released here Friday concludes there is little, if any, light at the end of tunnel in Iraq. The report, which comes on the eve of an unprecedented Senate debate on President George W. Bush's plan to add at...
The political vacuum caused by Syria’s abrupt departure from Lebanon in 2005 has prompted a tense power struggle for control in this tiny Middle Eastern state. The fight for power in Lebanon has rekindled old sectarian and tribal divisions that were tamed under...
At the moment, the spectacle of the I. Lewis Libby trial, of the den of thieves falling out, of the unraveling of old administration war stories, and of the possibility that, in the near future, the vice president might appear in the witness stand for a grilling all...
