When you invest so much effort into tangling the web in this case, corrupting intelligence analysis in the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq it becomes hard to know when to stop. Vice President Dick Cheney went to inordinate lengths, including...
US Wonks Warming to Iran, Arab Roles in Peace Talks
Foreign policy circles in Washington, including some figures considered close to the George W. Bush administration, have begun talking privately and in off-the-record meetings about the need to give both Iran and Iraq's Arab neighbors key roles in peace negotiations,...
Psy-War or Serious? Washington Mulls Iran Attack
Three years after the fall of Baghdad to U.S. forces, Washington is abuzz about new reports that the administration of President George W. Bush is preparing to attack Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons. In just the past few days, lengthy articles detailing planning...
GOP Congressmen: Time to Debate
Iraq Endgame
Last week, Republican Congressmen Ron Paul (Texas), Walter Jones (N.C.), and Wayne Gilchrest (Md.) declared their support for a bipartisan resolution demanding the full House debate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. The resolution's sponsor, Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii),...
America’s Newest Strategic Partner
"The U.S.-India civil nuclear deal is a strategic win," according to Secretary of State Condi Rice, and "seen in the larger context of the elevation of India-United States relationship" to "a strategic partnership," she urged Congress this week to approve it. How can...
Is Veneration of the Military Good for the Republic?
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The President’s ‘Final Jeopardy!‘ Question
Words fail. As last week ended, the vice president, we learned (in papers filed in federal court by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in the Plame-Niger-uranium, sixteen-fateful-words, disagree-with-us-and-we'll-whack-you case), told his chief of staff, "Scooter"...
Smear and Fear
Editor's note: Justin Raimondo is traveling. His column will return Friday. Israel's once-powerful lobby in the U.S. is running scared. The American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is facing a burgeoning scandal with the upcoming trial of Steve Rosen their...
US Efforts to Oust Jaafari May Backfire
Efforts by the United States to split the Shi'ite United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) and deny interim Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari his claim to head the next government could well prove counter-productive to long-term U.S. objectives in both Iraq and the larger region,...
Indo-US Nuclear Deal Takes Flak, No Eject Option
NEW DELHI - As the United States Senate foreign relations committee (SFRC) began hearing on Washington's controversial nuclear technology and supplies agreement with India, starting with the testimony of secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, the deal appeared to be in...


