Updated at 11:25 p.m EST, Jan. 15, 1007 Before dawn, Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and a former judge were executed in Baghdad. Another 87 Iraqis were killed and 80 were wounded in violent acts throughout the country today. Also, the first American troops in...
Fellow columnist Molly Ivins has launched a crusade of sorts to end what she calls "this evil war." I'm afraid that columnists, other than having the ability to occasionally embarrass a politician who still has a conscience, are pretty much without influence in the...
Updated at 12:10 p.m. EST, Jan. 15, 2007 Saddam Hussein's half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court were both hanged early Monday morning. Violence picked up in the capital and continued apace in Mosul and Kirkuk....
WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush's address on Iraq Wednesday night was less about Iraq than about its eastern neighbor, Iran. There was little new about the U.S.'s strategy in Iraq, but on Iran, the president spelled out a plan that appears to be aimed at...
Updated at 12:45 a.m. EST, Jan. 14, 2007 Baghdad was relatively quiet today. There were no major incidents besides the typical discoveries of dumped bodies. However, other cities reported multiple attacks. Throughout Iraq, 58 people were killed or found dead today and...
Who Is Planning Our Next War? Buchanan has been rightfully warning of the neocons' plan for war on Iran at least since April 28, 2006. ("It is time for Congress to tell President Bush directly that he has no authority to go to war on Iran and to launch such a war...
On January 4th, the Pentagon "announced the identities" of six American soldiers who had died between December 28th and New Year's Eve. It was just one of many such listings over these last years and, like similar announcements, this one had a just-the-facts quality...
The goal of American foreign policy has long been the replacement – by force, if "necessary" – of existing "criminal" regimes, with regimes sycophantic to us. Criminal regimes. Like that of the late Saddam Hussein. What makes a regime criminal? Well, for...
The U.S., after training and egging on the Ethiopians to intervene in the Somali civil war, is now bombing and strafing Somalis. The government "suspects" they might be al-Qaeda. That is a load of horse apples. You can't identify people, much less their politics, from...
On the surface, President Bush's Wednesday night speech adds up to precisely nothing. The president said, "It is clear that we need to change our strategy in Iraq," but the heart of his proposal, adding more than 20,000 U.S. troops, represents no change in strategy....
