Why are American soldiers dying in Iraq? The rationale has shifted as the months turn into years. "Weapons of mass destruction" Saddam's nonexistent links to al-Qaeda the Laurie Mylroie conspiracy theory that links Iraq to every ill under the sun, and...
Bravo, American Dissidents!
As I began to read Antiwar.com some three years ago, just before the launching of Operation "Enduring Freedom," I had a frame of reference to analyze empires and expansionism, but scarce data to apply it to the contemporary U.S. Let me put that framework in...
Bereaved Parents Lead Humanitarian Trip to Iraq
Parents of three U.S. soldiers killed in the war in Iraq are on their way to that country as part of a humanitarian mission aimed at showing a different face of the United States to Iraqis displaced by fierce fighting in Fallujah. Along with representatives of several...
Dept. of Homeland Security Pushes More Secrecy
NEW YORK - The Bush administration appears set to maintain the secrecy that has characterized its workings since 2001. The latest evidence is a directive from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) instructing its employees and contractors to share sensitive but...
Greater Government Spending Has Not Enhanced National Security
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‘Staying the Course’ Won’t Do
In the aftermath of the suicide bombing of the Mosul mess hall, we are being admonished anew we must stay the course in Iraq. But "Stay the course!" is no longer enough. President Bush needs to go on national television and tell us the unvarnished truth. Why are we...
Slam-Dunk Tenet Gets a Medal
What does George John Tenet have in common with Mother Theresa and Pope John Paul II? Well, all three are recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Tenet? The Director of Central Intelligence under both Clinton and Bush II? The DCI who justified Clinton's...
From Saddam’s Camp to America’s Dump
The dump is a dusty wasteland. Heaps of Baghdad's rotting wastes are strewn about several square miles of the battered capital city. Engaged in their futile battle to remove the endless amounts of garbage from streets, blue garbage trucks rumble through the stinky...
Yushchenko’s Disease: A Tale of Two Poisons
After weeks of rampant speculation and political intrigue of the highest order, the mystery of Viktor Yushchenko's rapid and startling facial disfigurement was settled with a simple blood test and reported with bold finality: The Ukrainian presidential candidate was...
Neocons and the Cult of State
In a recent column documenting the alleged hopelessness of dragging the Democratic Party back into alignment with mainstream America, George Will unwittingly put his finger on what is soon likely to ail the GOP as well: the impossibility of reconciling its underlying...


