Iraqi parliamentarians are increasingly concerned that they are being left out of talks between Iraqi and U.S. officials over a strategic deal to determine the future relationship between the two countries, at a time when the U.S. Congress failed to include a...
Israel Targets Iran Through Syrian Friendship
JERUSALEM - "Spin" was the chorus that predictably emanated from Israel's parliament when the office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced last week that Israel and Syria had initiated talks ultimately aimed at reaching a peace agreement. But to reduce the...
Tuesday: 1 US Soldier, 37 Iraqis Killed; 83 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 7:55 p.m .EDT, May 27, 2008At least 37 Iraqis were killed and 83 more were wounded in the latest attacks. One incident involved Iranian soldiers at the border. One American soldier was killed and two were wounded in a roadside bombing near Diwaniya on...
Into the Bosnian Quagmire, Part 2
Editorial note: This is an excerpt from a pamphlet published in 1996, Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans. We republish it now, in successive installments, because the rise of Barack Obama as the putative Democratic...
Talking About Nothing
To say that politics makes people stupid may be painting with too broad a brush, although there's plenty of evidence of politically induced stupidity committed by people who really ought to know better. I have sometimes posited that going into government at almost any...
Iran Is No Threat, Unless Bush Makes It One
In one of the most embarrassingly absurd, historically baseless, and astonishingly one-sided speeches any U.S. president has ever given, President Bush compared Iran to Nazi Germany in his speech to Israel's Knesset. In doing so, the president repeated the same...
Monday: 2 US Soldiers, 15 Iraqis Killed; 53 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:45 a.m. EDT, May 27, 2008At least 15 Iraqis were killed and 53 more were wounded in the latest violence. The most significant attack left two dozen casualties in Tarmiyah. Also, one American soldier was killed and two more were wounded during an IED...
Sunday: 14 Iraqis Killed, 41 Wounded
Updated at 5:25 p.m. EDT, May 25, 2008At least 14 Iraqis were killed and 41 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. Several assassination attempts only managed to kill one target but left many wounded in their wakes. No Coalition deaths were reported. In...
Bush and McCain’s Iran Insanity
President George Bush and his tag-along buddy John McCain are repeating almost word for word about Iran the pattern of lies and threats they used to justify the war against Iraq. Our intelligence agencies have said that Iran gave up the pursuit of a nuclear weapon...
Negotiating with ‘Terrorists and Radicals’ Is a Must
It has been suggested that it is hypocritical of President Bush to implicitly attack Barack Obama for his outrageous suggestion that the United States should actually talk to its adversaries. The President likened efforts to negotiate with "terrorists and...


