When Congress finally decides on just the right language for its "non-binding resolution" deploring Bush's leadership in this war, it might consider a resolution to keep us out of the next one. For America is on a collision course with an Iran of 70 million, and the...
President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq is the greatest crime of the 21st century. Armed with a powerful moral case against Bush, whose lies are responsible for a war that has caused thousands of U.S. casualties and killed vast numbers of Iraqi civilians,...
Sen. Chuck Hagel's interview with GQ, no less, is interesting on a number of levels – as a barometer of his status as "the new McCain," as the statement of an antiwar Republican of the Old Right school, as an expression of sheer outrage at the deception that...
When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared last week at the Herzliya conference that Israel could not risk another "existential threat" such as the Holocaust, he was repeating what has become the dominant theme in Israel's campaign against Iran –...
Updated at 3:35 a.m. EST, Feb. 1, 2007 At least 273 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead today; this includes 210 suspected militants killed by the Iraqi Army over the last two days. Another 72 Iraqis were injured in violent attacks throughout the country. Also...
Two incidents involving U.S. forces in predominantly Shia southern Iraq over the past week appear to demonstrate the growing complexities and dangers of the country's civil conflict. Sunday's day-long battle near Najaf, in which two U.S. pilots were killed when their...
Updated at 11:58 p.m. EST, Jan. 30, 2007 During the final day of the holy festival of Ashura, 128 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 270 wounded in violent attacks, many directed at pilgrims. Also, two American servicemembers were reported killed in separate...
Antiwar.com is pleased to announce the winners of its first-ever Student Essay Contest, held summer 2006. Today we present Khadija Abdool Hassam of Dubai, honorable mention in the senior division. Alexia Gilmore Executive director, Antiwar.com In this day and age,...
The Iraq War is coming up on its fourth anniversary. Increasingly embattled, even desperate, President Bush has decided to send another 21,500 American troops into the fight. They will join over 150,000 U.S. soldiers already deployed in Iraq. In the speech on Jan. 10...
The Pentagon recently reported that it now spends roughly $8.4 billion per month waging the war in Iraq, while the additional cost of our engagement in Afghanistan brings the monthly total to a staggering $10 billion. Since 2001, Congress has spent more than $500...
