Updated at 10:50 p.m. EST, Nov. 24, 2006 A day after the single largest attack since the occupation of Iraq began, Baghdad remains under an indefinite curfew. However, some retaliatory violence already has occurred and more is expected. So far today, 98 Iraqis have...
The deaths of over 400 Iraqis on Thursday and Friday renewed fears that that the sectarian violence will ripen into a full-blown civil war. Efforts to tamper attacks met with limited success as Shi’ite militiamen ignored an indefinite curfew in order to pay back...
Updated at 11:40 a.m. EST, Nov. 24, 2006 In the deadliest attack since the U.S. invaded Iraq, suspected Sunni militiamen killed at least 215 people and wounded 257 others in Shi’ite Sadr City today; the death toll is expected to go much higher. In other events,...
The Democrats regaining control of both the House and Senate was seen by many as rejection of the Bush administration's Iraq policy and a referendum for withdrawal. The announcement the next day of Donald Rumsfeld's departure from the Pentagon and the nomination of...
Justin Raimondo is taking the holiday weekend off. His column will return Monday. The continuing propaganda campaign directed at Vladimir Putin's Russia has taken a bizarre turn with the alleged "poisoning," in a London restaurant, of Alexander Litvinenko, a former...
George Orwell warned us, but what American would have expected that in the opening years of the 21st century the United States would become a country in which lies and deception by the president and vice president were the basis for a foreign policy of war and...
Updated at 7:55 p.m. EST, Nov. 22, 2006 There was less reported violence on Wednesday than in previous days, but at least 106 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 11 were wounded. Also, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq released a report...
Updated 9:50 p.m. EST, Nov. 22, 2006 As Iraq formally renewed diplomatic ties with neighboring Syria today, at least 144 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 55 more were injured. No foreign deaths were reported, but Coalition forces killed six in separate incidents...
Robert Gates is a poor choice for secretary of defense, but by now everyone should be accustomed to George W. Bush making poor choices. Gates was so notorious for politicizing intelligence so that it matched the policy decisions of the higher-ups that the first time...
In the wake of the recent crushing Democratic election victory, most pundits in Washington have been expecting the Bush administration to change course in Iraq. For those people, last week's testimony by Gen. John Abizaid, the U.S. commander ultimately in charge of...
