Lest We Forget…

Has it really been more than two years since the anthrax attacks -- and still no one arrested? Hard to believe! We've managed to bag Saddam, who never did anything to us. But Ashcroft, Ridge and untold billions of tax dollars later there are still no arrests, still no...

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Egypt Reacts to a Dictator’s Fall

The mixed feelings on the Arab street to the capture of Saddam Hussein is the subject of this article by Kamel Labidi, a journalist in Cairo who wrote his observations for THE DAILY STAR, the English language newspaper of Lebanon. Egypt and its varied reactions to a...

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A Posthumous Christmas

It is especially at the holidays that the casualties of war, all wars, lean so heavily on our hearts. After my father died in Korea, I don't think we ever had a genuinely happy Christmas again. Sure the tree was decorated, the gifts tumbled in heaps under it, cookies...

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Who’s Carol?

As blog readers may have noticed, there is a new blogger in the Antiwar.com ranks: Carol Watson. She has been an invaluable volunteer researcher for last six months. The Iraq Casualties page rarely misses an important story or statistic, and I give most of the credit...

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John Sugg on Neal Boortz at the LP Convention

John Sugg, columnist for Atlanta's Creative Loafing magazine, has a great column today attacking the idea of Neal Boortz speaking at the Libertarian Party National Convention. Sugg has strong libertarian tendencies and a thorough understanding of libertarian...

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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

JUAN COLE, in his commentary today, Al-Hakim to ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Saddam must be Tried in Iraq included this veritable gem at the very end: ...Bremer is reportedly worried that the IGC is not moving toward those elections fast enough to meet the July 1 deadline for...

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THE GENERAL’S CARPET

A Soldier's Letter from Iraq Spec-4 Marshall L. Edgerton was 27 years old. He was from Rocky Face, Georgia. He was assigned to [deleted], 82nd Airborne Division. We are based in Fort Bragg, N.C. Marshall was killed December 11th when he was escorting a delivery truck...

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A Neocon Christmas Carol

Invade the Vatican! Prescience is no sweat with these clowns, of course, but your humble correspondent nailed the current climate back in March. (Some links swiped from Lew Rockwell.)

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A Thump Against the Imperial Presidency

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals rules against the government on Jose Padilla's detention as an enemy combatant: Contrary to the government's argument, they said, the president does not have "inherent constitutional authority as Commander-in-Chief to detain American...

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