Best blog comment from an anti-war lefty on the deplorable Kerry is at Lenin’s Tomb. “Kerry is the neocon dream. Pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-Plan Colombia. And also, not to miss the finer points, loaded.” Lenin points out that not only is Kerry a hawk on Iraq, but he may well be a worse Drug [...]
Be sure to check out two great exclusives on Antiwar.com this weekend by first-time contributors Scott Sutton and Michael Uhl.
Over the weekend of August 12-13, 2000, as the delegates to the Democratic National Convention gathered in Los Angeles, the US and the UK conducted two airstrikes against the southern Iraq town of Samawa. Two people were killed and 19 injured in the first, in which several homes and a warehouse used to store [...]
The loudest applause during Wesley Clark’s speech last night came at the end of this:
Under John Kerry we will attack and destroy the terrorist threats to America. He’ll join the pantheon of great wartime Democrats.
Great Democrats like Woodrow Wilson, who led us to victory in World War 1. Great Democrats like Franklin Roosevelt and [...]
Titled "Responses to Al Qaeda’s Initial Assaults," the fourth chapter of the 9/11 report follows the government’s slow appreciation of Osama bin Ladin’s threat to America. Overall, the chapter demonstrates the internal conflicts within various government agencies on how to respond to the growing threat of terrorism. 1996 saw the first concerted effort to focus [...]
John Kerry: “I defended this country as a young man and I will defend it as president.”
You defended this country from what? Those Vietnamese peasants who were pillaging Boston?
Paul McGeough turns in a tour de force of an article, tying together some previously confusing information about events in Al Anbar province, like the sudden escalation of violence in Ramadi last week and the kidnapping of the governor of Al Anbar province’s sons. McGeough clearly has extensive contacts to have assembled the [...]
An echo, not a choice:
We will double our Special Forces, and invest in the new equipment and technologies so that our military remains the best equipped and best trained in the world. This will make our military stronger so we’re able to defeat every enemy in this new world.
But we can’t do this alone. [...]
Could David Duke have picked a better prime-time speaker for tonight’s Democratic convention than Al Sharpton? The only thing worse than Sharpton’s barking screed – which Doris Kearns Goodwin, in a rare moment of lucidity, compared to nails on a chalkboard – was the delegates’ reaction: euphoria. After watching this sorry spectacle, I’m quite happy [...]
I’m trying to imagine who might donate to the Lynndie England Defense Fund. Rush “Blowing Off Steam” Limbaugh? FReepers? Republican neocons?
The site, still being developed, also will try to help improve England’s image which, until now, has been controlled by the Army, said lawyer Rhidian Orr.
“The part we [...]
Bombings, clashes kill over 120 in Iraq today – and not a word yet (3:50 CST) from Glenn Reynolds, Jeff Jarvis, Volokh, Tim Blair, Roger L. Simon, or Andrew Sullivan, all of whom have found time today to post mind-numbing trivia. Come on guys, I need some positive spin on this. Explain to me how [...]
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