02 November 2009 | News, US Military | Jeremy Sapienza
My whole life it seems “gays in the military” has been an issue. Liberal democrats and gay activists have been arguing for years with right-wingers and the military establishment over the issues surrounding the right of homosexuals to fight in the armed forces — from troop morale to religious morality, everyone’s got a problem. Bill [...]
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03 October 2009 | Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Culture, Empire, Intervention, Liberal Interventionism, Military-industrial complex, News, US Military, War crimes | L. Reichard White
ORZALA ASHRAF: What would you expect from those children who lost their feet or their arm or their mother or their father during that kind of bombing? What would you expect from them? Do you expect them to join the peace process? Do you expect them to say, “I have excused you”?… –Rethink [...]
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02 August 2009 | Iraq, Propaganda, Saddam Hussein, Torture, US Military | Matt Barganier
For just one example of the disgusting exploitation of Capt. Scott Speicher by pro-war officials and pundits, I give you this from Jed Babbin on March 23, 2003, three days after the invasion of Iraq began:
He [Speicher] may still be alive in Iraq, rumored to have been kept as a personal torture toy for Saddam’s [...]
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02 August 2009 | George W. Bush, Iraq, Propaganda, Saddam Hussein, US Military, War party | Matt Barganier
From the New York Times, March 14, 2002:
President Bush said today that he ”wouldn’t put it past” President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to have secretly held an American pilot hostage for more than a decade.
Speaking at a news conference, Mr. Bush indicated that he did not know for certain the fate of Lt. Cmdr. Michael [...]
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13 July 2009 | Antiwar movement, Culture, Economics, Empire, Intervention, Libertarianism, Military spending, Military-industrial complex, Neocons, Politics, US Military, War on Terror, War party | Matt Barganier
Maybe this post by George Hawley, “Solving Non-Interventionism’s Tough-Guy Problem,” wasn’t directed at Antiwar.com, but I’ll address some excerpts from it anyway.
In the years since I abandoned my status as a typical neoconservative chicken hawk and adopted Old Right non-interventionism, I’ve been somewhat uneasy with much of the movement’s rhetoric. Specifically, I often find much [...]
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30 June 2009 | Americas, Dictatorship, Honduras, Obama, Presidency, US Military | Matt Barganier
I’m no scholar on Honduras, to say the least, so I’ll assume the basic facts regarding recent events are in accord with this opinion piece calling for ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s reinstatement:
Zelaya’s fatal mistake was in organizing a de facto referendum to test the idea of allowing him a second term. Honduras’s Constitution explicitly forbids [...]
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25 June 2009 | Iraq, News, US Military | Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Looking at Margaret and Jason’s close monitoring of the continued bloodshed in Iraq– something like 300 Iraqis dead in bombings since last Monday — it’s becoming clear that nothing short of a nuclear bomb dropped on the Green Zone will get administration officials and their supporters in the Washington military establishment to acknowledge that something [...]
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23 June 2009 | 4GW, Lebanon, News, US Military, War party | Matt Barganier
Of course, any act against the United States government is an act of terrorism. Just read the first graf of this Jeff Stein blog post:
He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks [...]
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13 June 2009 | Liberal Interventionism, US Military, War party | Scott Horton
Steve Clemons and TNR are both reporting a move inside the Obama White House to get rid of National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones. Clemons says the line being pushed is that the man is just plain lazy and a bad manager (which would explain his success in government), but that
what is clear is that [...]
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18 May 2009 | Iraq, Japan, US Military, War crimes | Tim Swanson
These ads were prepared by an advertising agency that does business with the History Channel. We incorrectly posted that these were prepared by the History Channel. The History Channel had nothing to do with these ads. Antiwar.com apologizes for the error. (Please see below for the History Channel’s statement.)
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17 March 2009 | Economics, Iraq, Military spending, US Military | Tim Swanson
While an argument could be made that all money spent on defense (war) appropriations is a waste, a new report shows that 20% of the money set aside by Congress to rebuild Iraq was “wasted” on shoddy craftsmanship and “excessive payments to contractors.”
In other breaking news, $900 billion has been spent destroying offices, kiosks, stores, [...]
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08 March 2009 | News, US Military | Laurence Vance
It is disheartening to see that the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is promoting service in the Army National Guard. According to a recent Home School Heartbeat:
More than ever, homeschool graduates are finding that their education has prepared them for open doors in many fields of opportunity. Today on Home School Heartbeat, HSLDA President Mike [...]
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