President Bush says he's been "shaken" by the reports of Iraqi prisoner abuse at the hands of U.S. soldiers. What did he expect? He's the one who whipped them into an anti-Iraqi frenzy. He's the one who called Iraq "evil." He's the one who told...
Instead of improving, the situation in Iraq continues to become more chaotic. American soldiers are dying at the rate of nearly five per day, up from about one per day last fall. With the photographs and reports of U.S. guards mistreating Iraqi prisoners, we have...
As America's civilian and military high command comes unglued, American actions in Iraq grow more inchoate. The Marines did what needed to be done in Fallujah, turning the place over to one of Saddam's generals who might be able to run it, mainly because he comes from...
One year after "Mission Accomplished" was proclaimed by President Bush, America may have lost the war in Iraq. Insurgency, instability and social chaos, the familiar problems dogging the occupation, were exacerbated in April by mutiny, collapsing authority and...
The growing instability in Afghanistan – a country under virtual military occupation by U.S. and other western forces – has been overshadowed by news of the escalating violence, torture and killings in U.S.-administered Iraq. But analysts who closely monitor...
The Administration, camera-shy over the last few days, was doing heavy-duty damage control Wednesday in Washington and Baghdad. US President George W. Bush went on Arab language satellite television stations on Wednesday to try to quench smoldering international anger...
The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos (warning: graphic images) We in the Antiwar crowd need to hit the warmongers and profiteers where it hurts – in the pocketbook. CACI International Inc. (NYSE: CAI) with a market capitalization of $1.2 billion and Titan Corporation...
Dozens of followers of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr sing songs of martyrdom as they carry the coffins of two of their slain comrades into the shrine of the revered Imam Ali in the Iraqi holy city, Najaf. Every night, Sadr's fighters engage in pitched battles with the...
On some cable networks, they were comparing it to the Battle of Stalingrad, which is absurd. At Stalingrad, 500,000 Red Army soldiers died along with 147,000 Germans. Another 91,000 Germans surrendered, few of them ever to be seen again. No, Fallujah was no...
What's wrong with the mainstream media? "Conservatives" and "liberals" often squeal that the press is biased against their own side, but they're both wrong. Oh, the press certainly is biased, but the direction of the slant is not left or right, but up, toward more...
