Which neocons are on their way out? How many will Rove force to walk the plank off the USS Dubya? Which neocons are fed up with the "treacherous, spineless turncoat," Ahmed Chalabi? How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons The hawks who launched the Iraq war believed the...
CNN Reports: After three weeks of captivity by Iraqi insurgents, American Thomas Hamill walked free when his guards apparently fled from an approaching U.S. Army patrol, soldiers who found him said Monday. One of the soldiers, 2nd Lt. Joseph Merrill, said his platoon...
The editor and entire staff of a Pentagon-created, US funded Iraqi newspaper has quit in disgust saying they're sick of American interference in their choice of subject matter. They say they're starting their own newspaper, called Al-Sabah Al-Jedid (The New Morning)....
As a supplement to today's Amir Butler article, "The Lesson of the ANZACs," here's Philip Knightley's account of Keith Murdoch's role in the Gallipoli affair.
What with all the bludgeoning of war opponents over the oil-for-food scandal, I think it's time for those of us on the antiwar Right to come clean: we love the U.N. Always have, always will. Yep, everyone here at Antiwar.com just adores global government,...
It takes Victor David "VD" Hanson four paragraphs of mild angst over the Abu Ghraib atrocities to segue into his apologia. The rationalizations for American torture of Iraqi prisoners are in five bulleted points. I'll sum them up so you don't have to read it. There's...
This morning, I was having my coffee and reading my local newspaper when it dawned on me that something was indeed missing from this noble rag. Well, on the front page and in the main section there was the story of the hostage who managed to escape his captors in...
This is too funny: Myers: Former Saddam General Not in Charge in Falluja Gen. Jasim Mohamed Saleh, a former general in Saddam Hussein's army, is not in charge in the volatile Iraqi city of Falluja and is still being vetted for a possible peacekeeping role, the...
Thomas Hamill wandered up to an American patrol in Balad, between Baghdad and Tikrit today. The press accounts are calling it an "apparent escape" though the demand by the mujahiden originally was for the Marines to end the siege of Fallujah, so I expect that it will...
With world attention fixed on the Abu Ghraib prison torture outrage, an important story from Saudi Arabia is going under the radar. I first saw mention of the more exotic aspects of this story on Raed Jarrar's blog where he wrote: The thing no one said about the...
