Let me deal first with an issue raised by a reader who called me Monday morning after hearing a brief synopsis on the radio and asked if I had yet read the long piece in Sunday's New York Times dealing with assertions from both the Iraqi interim government and the...
The Body Snatchers: Kids, Did Your Recruiters Tell You About the Shallow Graves?
"Look! You fools! You're in danger! Can't you see? They're after you! They're after all of us! Our wives our children they're here already! You're next!" ~Dr. Miles Bennell, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers Before you or someone you love enlists, check out...
The Intelligence Made
Them Do It
Let's review now. It was bad intelligence that made President George W. Bush invade Iraq, right? No, you say, and you are correct; that is just White House spin. The "intelligence" was conjured up many months after President George W. Bush's decision to attack. Now,...
The Character Assassins
Every couple of months or so, Stephen Schwartz, aka Suleyman Ahmad, aka "Comrade Sandalio," the Trotskyite-cum-Sufi, turns up with a long, vehement screed recycling the same tired charges against Antiwar.com and me, albeit worded a bit differently. Of course, David...
Playing the Democracy Card
Have we really almost rolled around yet again to the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, this time amid much Bush administration and neocon self-congratulation, as well as media congratulations (grudging or otherwise) for an Iraqi-election-inspired...
Two Years Too Many
Two years ago, President Bush sent American troops into Iraq on the basis of claims that evaporated into thin air not long after the fighting got underway. There was no justification for starting this war, and there is now no good reason to continue it. It is time to...
America’s Ready for Withdrawal but Are Progressives?
President Bush just told reporters that he has no intention of setting any timetable for withdrawal. "Our troops will come home when Iraq is capable of defending herself," he said. Powerful pundits keep telling us that a swift pullout of U.S. troops would be...
Is Iraq Becoming the World’s Biggest Cash Cow?
WASHINGTON - The United States has charged a former employee of the U.S. construction giant Halliburton and a Kuwaiti subcontractor with defrauding the U.S. government of millions of dollars in a contract scam in Iraq, one day after an international watchdog group...
Eastern Empire Rising?
EU Back in the Balkans Following Emperor Bush II's visit to Europe last month, the U.S. seems to have pulled back to the sidelines of Balkans policy, letting its junior partners in Brussels deal with the peninsula. American threats and saber-rattling had produced...
Accountability: Why Not Start at the Top?
The word "accountability" is always bandied about in Washington as the solution for the woes brought on America by the current governing generation. Impassioned calls for accountability from presidents, senators, congressman, as well as media, academic, and social...


