Civil society groups in Honduras applauded the government's decision to withdraw the country's 370 troops from Iraq, while voices in El Salvador called for a pullout of the Salvadoran forces as well. "We were taken by surprise, because it looked like the troops...
Fallujah Cannot Even Bury Its Dead
The story of Yusuf Fakri Amash is the story of so much of Fallujah. The 11-year-old boy just managed to escape from the town with his family. But not before the U.S. military killed his best friend. "Ahmed was in my class," he says. "He was younger than...
Journalist Group: Latest Killings of Media Workers Fit Pattern
U.S. soldiers' negligence appears to be the cause of Monday's killings of two Iraqi media workers in the city of Samara north of Baghdad, said an official from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Tuesday. The organization had not completed its probe...
President Bush May Never Have Read Bin Laden Brief
President Bush may never have actually read the memo contained in his President's Daily Brief (and here) titled "Bin Ladin [sic] Determined To Strike in US." The brief has been at the center of a controversy about whether President Bush took appropriate action to...
Neo-Crazy Coup d’Etat
Perhaps you haven't noticed certainly the neo-crazies hope you haven't but we have just experienced a coup d'etat. What's a "coup d'etat"? Well, according to Edward Luttwak, author of Coup D'etat: A Practical Handbook, "A coup consists of the...
A Hypothetical Memo from Osama bin Laden
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040420.html
A Country Destroyed
Once there was a time when American conservatives defended their country from government. No more. Today conservatives defend Bushs warmongering neo-Jacobin government at all costs. In a recent column, "Feeling a Draft" (April 15), I reported that the US has now...
Thinking the Unthinkable
"I hope you got a sense of conviction about what we're doing," said the president, as he ended his primetime press conference. We certainly did. Indeed, listening Tuesday night, one must concede the convictions, the earnestness and the resolve of the president that he...
An American Caesar
Intentionally or stupidly, President Bush and his neocon overlords are on track for igniting general conflagration in the Middle East. In placing America's stamp of approval on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's annexation of the West Bank, Bush jettisoned a half...
A Confederacy of Dunces
Salam Pax enchanted the warbloggers for two reasons. First, his account of life under Saddam pricked readers' hearts in a way that American politicians and PR firms never could, thus helping the case for humanitarian intervention. More importantly, Salam is, well, not...


