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The U.S. is losing patience with the Iraqis, averred Sen. John McCain the other day in Baghdad, going into his favorite mode of self-righteous hectoring, warning them they had better get on with the business of forming a government. The senator cited polls showing declining support for the war, but the lack of a government … Continue reading “America’s Reign of
Terror in Iraq”

Imagine you are in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, setting up tents and loudspeakers without a permit to occupy the park with a group of several thousand protesters, guzzling beer and vodka. How long do you think it would be before the Secret Service or other uniformed local and federal officers moved in … Continue reading “How Lukashenko Won”

Every day that passes, Americans will be less welcomed in Iraq, and I wouldn’t take lightly the warning of an Iraqi cleric who said, “You should leave before we force you out.” An army that won’t fight is one thing. Twenty million people willing to stab you in the back, cut your throat or toss … Continue reading “Told You So”

Two days after the coup d’etat that brought a brutal military junta to power in Argentina, then U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered his subordinates to "encourage" the new regime by providing financial support, according to a previously classified transcript released here by the independent National Security Archive (NSA). The document, whose public release … Continue reading “Kissinger Backed Argentine Junta 30 Years Ago”

Back in November, 2004, the United Kingdom, France and Germany (E3) undertook to negotiate with Iran on behalf of the European Union a mutually acceptable long-term agreement which would provide the EU “objective guarantees” that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes. Now, why would Iran agree to provide additional guarantees, above and beyond … Continue reading “More Failed Diplomacy”

Wrapping up a week of over 600 protest actions to mark three years since the United States invaded Iraq, activists here say that antiwar sentiment has become the dominant perspective in the U.S. and leaves the war "without legitimacy." Joining thousands of others around the world, antiwar protesters in the United States took to the … Continue reading “‘Bring Troops Home’ Call Echoes Across US”

Last week’s anniversary of the start of the Iraq War prompted loads of discussions. For some reason, journalists love anniversaries, though of course they are highly selective in which anniversaries they take note of. Out of these discussions always comes the administration’s ploy, which is that if you don’t have a solution, then don’t criticize … Continue reading “Time to Leave Iraq”

While President Bush appears serenely confident about Iraq, the same cannot be said of the War Party propagandists who were plotting this conflict when Dubya was still a rookie governor of Texas. William Kristol of The Weekly Standard now demands the firing of Donald Rumsfeld. William F. Buckley, whose National Review branded the antiwar Right … Continue reading “Are the Neocons Losing It?”

So have we learned anything after three years in Iraq and two years and 10 months after the White House created a "Mission Accomplished" sign for an aircraft carrier on which President Bush spoke? Well, we learned, or were reminded, early on in the Iraq war, that the U.S. military long ago sloughed off the … Continue reading “Iraq Three Years On”

U.S. military intervention in Iraq was supposed to result in the Great Transformation: the neoconservatives who howled for war reassured us with their own version of a reverse domino theory, in which, when Iraq fell to the American "liberators," the rest of the region would soon follow. Not only would repressive Arab regimes be changed, … Continue reading “What Has America Wrought?”