In the run-up to the Iraq war, FBI veterans say they were pressured by the Bush administration to come up with links, no matter how tenuous, between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda to help sell the planned military incursion. They came up empty, however, and were told to...
Idealism vs. Realism in Egypt
In 1933, a neo-fascist "Young Egypt" movement, modeled on the Nazi Party, was founded. Among its supporters were two young nationalist officers, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. When, in 1942, Rommel's Afrika Corps smashed into Egypt and was 100 miles from...
Lieberman’s ‘War Cabinet’
The other day, when Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) suggested that it's time for George W. Bush to form a "war cabinet," everybody knew what he had in mind. Rumors of Donald Rumsfeld's departure from the Department of Defense were (and are) rife, and it was clear...
Let the Hostilities Begin
Editor's note: This week, Antiwar.com will be on the spot in Hong Kong for the Sixth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference. This is the second in a series about the issues surrounding the conference, the people involved, and the roles played by the...
An Increasingly Aerial Occupation
From the destroyed Japanese and German cities of World War II to the devastated Korean peninsula of the early 1950s, from the ravaged South Vietnamese countryside of the late 1960s to the "highway of death" on which much of a fleeing Iraqi army was destroyed in the...
The Token Defendant
Last Wednesday, Spanish police arrested Ante Gotovina, a former Croatian general accused of war crimes, at a hotel in the Canary Islands. He was soon remanded to the custody of the Hague Inquisition, where he pleaded not guilty on Monday. Official Zagreb welcomed the...
Israel Troubled by Bush’s Priorities
Despite their mutual enthusiasm for ousting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Israel and the United States appear increasingly at odds over what to do about the larger Middle East region. While the administration of President George W. Bush favors, or is at least...
Backtalk, December 14, 2005
Israel, Iran, and the US: Nuclear War, Here We Come This article was interesting and I agree with some of it, although I must take point with parts of it. It was informative until the obvious personal biases started to shine through. To say that Israel would be...
Making the World Safe for Theocracy
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e051213.html
Nuclear Threats, Real and Imagined
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States which was required, inter alia, to recommend actions the federal government should take to prevent future attacks issued its final report 18 months ago. Its members have now issued an ad...


