Thank you all. Thank you and good evening. I'm honored to visit the Army War College. Generations of officers have come here to study the strategies and history of warfare. I've come here tonight to report to all Americans, and to the Iraqi people, on the strategy our...
A Shi’ite International?
There was more heavy fighting in Karbala early on Friday, after which the city fell eerily quiet. By Friday night into early Saturday morning, Mahdi Army militiamen had mysteriously ceased fighting, and the U.S. had withdrawn from sites like Mukhayyam mosque near the...
The Seeds Have Been Sown
"Iraq is sitting atop a volcano," says a school teacher in Haditha. "The Americans are aggravating people here, trying to get a reaction. Everyone in this province is against them now!" Most Iraqis I speak with nowadays are seething with rage toward the occupiers of...
Gulf War III
American Likudniks have been "examining" the consequences to our national security of an Israeli preemptive strike against certain Iranian facilities and programs, all now subject to an International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards Agreement. Whenever President Bush...
American Shame in Rafah
The current Israeli campaign in Rafah, which has already killed at least 40 people, and which the U.N. Security Council has condemned in a 14-0 vote (with the United States abstaining), is merely the continuation of a decades-long program of ethnic cleansing that...
Outside the Gates of Abu Ghraib
With the recent court-martial trial of one of the soldiers complicit in the widespread torturing of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison having come and gone, Iraqis see the newest promise made by the U.S. to clean up their act regarding the treatment of detained Iraqis...
The Chalabi Follies
Ahmed Chalabi wrote his doctoral dissertation on the intricacies of Knot Theory and surely he has tied his neoconservative patrons in a knot of Gordian proportions as they take up the cudgels in his defense. "You can piss on Chalabi," said George W. Bush to...
Iraqi ‘Sovereignty’: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
Amid more bad news from Iraq and increasing dissatisfaction among voters, President Bush will give the first of a series of six speeches today detailing his plans for the June 30 "transfer of power" in Iraq. The speeches are meant to acquaint the public with a joint...
Comment from Germany Thank you for this website. The current Bush administration is not only responsible for torturing and massacring thousands of innocent people, but also for destroying the reputation of the USA in the world. People here in Europe are beginning to...
Paul Craig Roberts Responds to Article Calling Him Pro-War
I was alerted by Antiwar.com on Sunday morning May 23 that I was seriously misquoted in an article in the Alameda Times-Star by Byron Williams, described as "an Oakland pastor and syndicated columnist." Mr. Williams attributed the following neo-Jacobin quote to me:...


