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 Warrior than [...]
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 supplies [...]
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 [...]
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?
