Just this week, the Bush administration is considering making a little futuristic news. The president might soon approve "a major step forward in the building of the country's first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades," the Reliable Replacement Warhead. If only...
When President George W. Bush's unveils his long-awaited new strategy on Iraq Wednesday night, he will be relying heavily on the counsel of one J.D. Crouch II, perhaps the most hardline – if most obscure – of his hawkish advisers. Over the past 15 years, the...
Updated at 12:20 p.m. EST, Jan. 10, 2007 At least 126 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 73 were wounded in violent acts across the country. Attacks were light in Baghdad where combined U.S. and Iraqi forces had been conducting raids. Also, the U.S....
Updated at 12:30 a.m. EST, Jan. 10, 2007 In Iraq today, at least 120 people were killed or found dead and another 18 were injured during violent attacks. At least 34 more were killed during a plane crash. Also, one American soldier was shot dead in Diyala province. A...
The new year began on the hopeful note that Bush’s illegal war in Iraq would soon be ended. The repudiation of Bush and the Republicans in the November congressional election, the Iraq Study Group’s unanimous conclusion that the US needs to remove its troops...
In our world, the Pentagon and the national security bureaucracy have largely taken possession of the future. In an exchange in 2002, journalist Ron Suskind reported a senior adviser to President Bush telling him: "that guys like me were 'in what we call the...
As part of a massive staff shakeup of Bush's Iraq team last week, it was announced that John Negroponte, the current U.S. National Intelligence Director who has also conveniently served as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005 is being tapped as the...
As George Bush reflects on his legacy, an urgent question must be pressing in upon him each day. Will I leave here as the man who launched failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost thousands of U.S. dead, to no avail? Or can I yet enter history as the...
President George W. Bush, contrary to the will of the American and Iraqi peoples and his own military commanders, seems ready to embark on a potentially disastrous escalation of the Iraq war, which was lost long ago. This mind-numbingly idiotic strategy is sure to...
with Ali al-Fadhily FALLUJAH - Ten-year-old Yassir aimed a plastic gun at a passing US armored patrol in Fallujah, and shouted "Bang! Bang!" Yassir did not know what was coming. "I yelled for everyone to run, because the Americans were turning...
