Somebody ought to tell President George Bush something he obviously doesn't know. He keeps talking about wanting democracy in the Middle East and reform in general as an antidote to extremism. What apparently his staff members have not told him, probably because they...
Saddam Could Call CIA in His Defense
LONDON - Evidence offered by a top CIA man could confirm the testimony given by Saddam Hussein at the opening of his trial in Baghdad Thursday that he knew of the Halabja massacre only from the newspapers. Thousands were reported killed in the gassing of Iraqi Kurds...
The Herod Doctrine
You remember how King Herod of Judea dealt with a suspected threat to his rule, dont you? According to Matthew, three Magi Persian priests showed up in Jerusalem, and told Herod they had seen a "sign in the heavens" signifying the birth in...
Palestinians Walled In, and Walled Out
JERUSALEM - The security wall Israel is building around Jerusalem is raising concerns among Palestinians about their future and where they belong. The wall is firming up Israeli control in areas it occupied after the 1967 war. Up until then Israel had more or less...
Iraq: A Failure Without Borders
How are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan going? Perhaps the best way to answer that question is to look at what is happening in Saudi Arabia. Until about a year ago, Saudi Arabia was one of the safest countries on earth. Crime was rare, and everyone, including...
A Deluge of Bad Advice and Statistics
The cliché about bad news "it never rains but it pours" was in full view the week of June 20. And the forecast is for more of the same for the foreseeable future. The proverbial torrents in question were the documents and statistics made public by the...
Restoring Some Balance
There is certainly some justification for being less than completely satisfied, as Elaine Cassel certainly is, with the Supreme Court's decisions this week on people detained without trial or access to friends, family or lawyers by the Bush administration, notably...
An Interview with Sibel Edmonds
Washington's Foreign Policy I just want to express my profound gratitude for Antiwar.com. While I don't agree with everything everybody says. I agree strongly that we had no business sending troops to Iraq and that this administration lied about WMDs. I am a patriotic...
Jackals and Jackasses
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) Boris Tadic won the second round of the Serbian presidential elections Sunday, beating Radical rival Tomislav Nikolic by 8...


