It didn't take long for the "liberated" Iraqis to turn on each other. While no one expected the Sunni Arabs of central Iraq to take the de-Ba'athification of the country lying down, the Iraqi "constitution" had barely been printed up and distributed before large...
White House Losing Ground on Prisoner Treatment
Despite strong opposition from the Pentagon and the White House, the Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate is coming under growing pressure to set specific standards for the "humane" treatment of detainees taken in Iraq and elsewhere in the George W. Bush...
Empowering the UN, Destroying US Sovereignty
Last month at its "World Summit" in New York, the United Nations took another big step toward destroying national sovereignty a step that could threaten the United States in the future. The UN passed a resolution at this summit that, among other...
Pleading Incompetence
No one including the Iranians at their (nonexistent) equivalent of our Los Alamos Laboratory can make a nuclear weapon until they have managed to acquire multi-kilogram quantities of almost pure uranium-235, uranium-233, or plutonium-239. For that...
Time to Fire Karl Rove and ‘Scooter’ Libby
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e051004.html
A Second Take on Scooter-gate
Editorial note: The original version of this column, which ran on October 3, contained a number of errors involving dates, which I have now corrected. I have also added a significant amount of new material, so much that it is, for all intents and purposes, quite a...
The Greatest Strategic Disaster in US History
Capitol Hill Blue, the Washington, D.C., publication that cultivates relationships with White House staffers, reports one White House aide saying, "It's like working in an insane asylum. People walk around like they're in a trance. We're the dance band on the Titanic,...
Last One to Leave, Please Turn on the Lights
Recently, our top commander in Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., was brought back to the United States, officially to consult with George Bush on what the president still calls "our strategy for victory." Along with retiring Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers,...
You Can’t Fight ‘Ists’ and ‘Isms’
Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, KIA 04/04/04. She is co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace. Sheehan was recently interviewed by Joshua Frank, author of Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush, published by Common Courage...
What’s Wrong With Cutting and Running?
If I were a journalist, I would list all the arguments that you hear against pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, the horrible things that people say would happen, and then ask: Aren't they happening already? Would a pullout really make things worse? Maybe it would make...


