The men and women of the National Guard shouldn't be killing in Iraq. They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi. The catastrophic hurricane was an act of God. But the U.S. war effort in Iraq is a continuing act of the president. And now, that effort is...
Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush's Iraq war. There were not enough helicopters to repair the breached levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guardsmen available to help with rescue efforts and to...
That long Labor Day weekend, traditionally a time of rest, lies ahead. It marks the end of this summer's not-so-silly season, a few days when TomDispatch shuts down and everyone who can light a barbecue or visit that favorite end-of-summer vacation restaurant is...
The U.S. Treasury is paying out more each month to sustain the war in Iraq than it did during the Vietnam War, according to a new report that calls the ongoing conflict "the most expensive military effort in the last 60 years." The 84-page report, "The Iraq Quagmire:...
The death toll from a stampede of Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims continued to climb Wednesday, with security officials saying nearly 800 people perished and 323 were injured when rumors of a suicide bombing sparked chaos on a Baghdad bridge. Most were trampled or fell into...
Arms merchants from industrialized nations are increasingly finding Asia, which has replaced the Near East as the world's top conventional-weapons market, the place to go, according to a new report [.pdf] by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Led by purchases...
This news report in the Philadelphia Times Herald might shock the average reader, but its subject is surely familiar to longtime readers of Antiwar.com: "A memorandum sent to the 9/11 Commission, and Senate and House intelligence committees in September 2004, suggests...
Anyone interested in Iraq's new constitution would be advised to check out the film Return to the Land of Wonders, which focuses on the crafting of Iraq's interim constitution in the Spring of 2004. The documentary was shot by Maysoon Pachachi, the daughter of 82 year...
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - George Bush, "President Participates in Social Security Conversation in New York," May 24, 2005 Forced from his...
Over the weekend, a spectrum of liberal responses to Cindy Sheehan came into sharper focus. The message is often anti-Bush… but not necessarily antiwar. Frank Rich spun out his particular style of triangulation in the New York Times. While deriding President...
