http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e041214.html
US Military Obstructing Medical Care in Iraq
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military has been preventing delivery of medical care in several instances, medical staff say. Iraqi doctors at many hospitals have reported raids by Coalition forces. Some of the more recent raids have been in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, about 10 km (6.2...
Nation-Building Is Not Conservative
A recent study [.pdf] by the Pentagon's Defense Science Task Force on Strategic Communications concluded that in the struggle for hearts and minds in Iraq, "American efforts have not only failed, they may also have achieved the opposite of what they intended." This...
Dangerous Delusions About Iran
Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith is the neocon Likudnik who was tasked with cooking up the false "intelligence" that President Bush used to deceive the U.S. public into supporting an illegal invasion of Iraq. With the U.S. military now trapped in the Iraqi...
Beheading ElBaradei
Memo to: The White House Re: Terrorizing the IAEA I hear reports today of public-opinion polls not only showing President Bush disliked by the great majorities of practically every European country, but also for the first time showing a narrow majority of Europeans...
What ElBaradei Said
David Sanger a New York Times reporter has actually visited the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna and interviewed its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei. Sanger's resulting report entitled "When a Virtual Bomb May Be Better Than...
Plenty of Strategy, Just No Exit
"Old Europe" is blocking U.S. efforts to find an exit strategy for Iraq. Further evidence emerged on Thursday that Old Europe holds the only key to the door from Iraq marked "Exit," but don't expect to see it used any time soon. After the...
Giving the Gift of War
For the Pentagon, Xmas is an everyday affair. And the wonderful thing for those who make its presents is that there's never a December 26th. Unlike the rest of us, the Pentagon, which evidently doesn't keep its sales slips, never rushes to its nearest...
The Ukrainian Template
It didn't take long for the supporters of Viktor Yushchenko, the West's Ukrainian sock puppet, to point to the KGB as the perpetrators of the poisoning of their candidate with a major dose of dioxin: "When asked by ABC News' Bill Weir if the Russian government,...
Another Iraq Exit Strategy
A while back in 2003, there was a lot of commentary and partisan whining on the lack of an "exit strategy" for Iraq. Bush got us into a quagmire, and we can't get out! In May of this year, William Pfaff suggested playing to Iraqi "nationalism," as...


