BOSTON - As military veterans wrangle over whom to support for president, one veterans' organization has fired a shot across the bow of whoever will occupy the White House next year. Over 400 Veterans for Peace (VFP) members gathered last weekend in Boston for the...
Kidnapping: Insurgents’ New Weapon of Choice
Kidnapping has become a weapon that is bringing increasing pressure on countries supporting the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. Any foreigner associated with the United States is a target. On Monday Mohamed Mamdouh Qutb, the third highest ranking Egyptian diplomat in...
Bush Resists Pressure to Meddle in Sudan for Now
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bush administration continues to refrain from calling a campaign of ethnic cleansing against black Africans in Sudan's western Darfur province "genocide," although both houses of the U.S. Congress approved non-binding resolutions last week that...
A Party of Cowards
It's a shame, really, that John Kerry isn't taking full advantage of the war issue to make his case for regime change in Washington. Opining that he would have gone to war in a different way, on a different timetable, just doesn't cut it. Many of his most high-profile...
Iraq War Straining US-Turkey Ties
While the image of the United States has sunk to an all-time low in the Arab world, the Iraq war has also had a devastating impact on U.S. ties to another predominantly Muslim power and one of Washington's closest and most strategically situated Cold War allies,...
No Troops Yet Offered for UN Force in Iraq
UNITED NATIONS - The dramatic increase in kidnappings of foreign nationals in Iraq is threatening to undermine the creation of a new multinational security force aimed at protecting UN employees and humanitarian workers who are planning to return to the...
Backtalk July 28, 2004
Shop Antiwar.com I am a huge fan of your site and visit it frequently. Today was my first visit to the shop and I liked what I saw. However, I have a request to make. I would like to see some black colored T-shirts with your logo. I am a member of the U.S. military...
India-Pakistan Hope Gives Way to Uncertainty
NEW DELHI - The atmospherics still exude cordiality as India's Foreign Minister Natwar Singh rounded off his numerous meetings in Islamabad with Pakistani policymakers with a one-on-one conversation with Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. But the initial...
Report Omits Key Player Foreign Policy
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040727.html
What Price Unanimity?
The 567-page final report released Thursday by the 9/11 Commission provides a wealth of data indeed, so much detail that it is easy to get lost in the trees and miss the forest. Comments by the ubiquitous commissioners over the weekend leave the impression...


