There is an element of Schadenfreude in the reaction of critics of Washington's neoconservatives to the policy setbacks and ideological turbulence that their erstwhile bureaucratic rivals and ideological antagonists have been experiencing in recent weeks. With the...
Updated at 11:15 p.m. EST, Nov. 15, 2006 Kidnappings by death squads are commonplace in Baghdad; however, mass kidnappings still grab the headlines. In developing news today, as many as 60 more Iraqis were kidnapped from several minibuses and another 15 from a cafe,...
Updated at 10:55 p.m. EST, Nov. 14, 2006 The violence continues unabated in Iraq. At least 143 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 109 were wounded; however, the main story from the war-torn country today is the mass kidnapping of staff members at the Higher...
The antiwar public, having voted the Democrats into power, are hoping – although they're not convinced – that U.S. troops will now begin to be withdrawn from Iraq. They are dreaming. And here's why: "Cautious newly elected Democratic members of Congress...
In September 2002, Arab League head Amr Moussa warned that an invasion of Iraq would "open the gates of Hell" in the Middle East. Four years later, with those gates – at least in Iraq – open wide enough to drive a tank through, the look of the Bush...
Updated at 11:00 p.m. EST, Nov. 15, 2006 A day after a brazen mass kidnapping in Baghdad, a second mass kidnapping occurred south of the capital. In other events, 133 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 50 were wounded in various incidents around the country....
ARBIL - As Saddam Hussein faces his second trial, this one over the killing of an estimated 180,000 Kurds in the late 1980s, people in Kurdistan are taking a particular interest whether the death sentence in the first case will be carried out before there can be a...
Most of official Washington has long believed that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld needed to be sacked. Unfortunately, it took a major Republican loss at the polls to finally prompt George W. Bush to cut loose a key player from his inner circle. The removal of...
Unless November's new blood improves the Democratic Party's civil liberties pedigree, the Democrats will have failed even before they are sworn in next January. In its disregard for truth, public opinion, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, the U.S....
Lose a war, lose an election. What else should anyone expect, especially when the war is one we never had to fight? Had Spain defeated us in '98, does anyone think McKinley/Roosevelt would have won in 1900? A logical corollary is, lose two wars, lose two elections....
