With Ali al-Fadhily BAGHDAD - The Facilities Protection Service (FPS) created after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 has become the principal set of death squads in Iraq, senior leaders say. "The first accomplishment of Paul Bremer [former U.S. administrator in Iraq]...
In the end, it didn't matter what John Kerry said or didn't say: it didn't matter that Saddam Hussein was condemned to death, and, most of all, it didn't matter that the White House fell back on its post-9/11 strategy of implying that a vote for the Democrats is a...
In the wake of U.S. elections and the lifting of curfews, the persistent violence in Iraq resumed at an accelerated pace. At least 199 Iraqis were killed or reported dead and 137 more were injured in various attacks around the country. Three foreigners either serving...
Saddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in Baghdad. Let's reach back into history and extract these facts: On Dec. 20, 1983, the Washington Post reported that Rumsfeld "visited...
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has promised there will not be a change of course in Iraq if the Democrats take back Congress. Potential House leader Nancy Pelosi has assured voters that impeachment is not in the cards for Bush, either. Yet the...
With Ali al-Fadhily BAGHDAD - The death sentence for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein could deepen a divide that threatens to tear Iraqis apart. The signs on the street are dangerous already. Several reports have come in of celebrations in Kurdish and Shia areas,...
In the run-up to the midterm elections, Vice President Dick Cheney's recent remarks about U.S. national security policy once again point out the Bush administration's haughtiness and disdain for checks on executive power. "You cannot make national security policy...
Updated at 6:25 p.m. EST, Nov. 1, 2006 As curfews lift in war-torn Iraq, the violence slowly returns. At least 67 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 61 were wounded in several locations throughout the country. The deaths of two coalition soldiers, one...
In one of my early columns on Antiwar.com, "Who Is 'We'?," I pointed out that people often mistakenly use the term "we" when talking about the actions of government officials. So, for example, if the government of country X bombs people in country Y, many people who...
It had to happen – the faithless neocons, who value loyalty only to their own ambitions, have taken to denouncing the president for carrying out their wishes, albeit "incompetently." As predicted here, here, and here years ago, they're turning on George...
