Arthur Silber has a petition appeal from Barbara Boxer. As Arthur says:Just do it. It would be awfully nice finally to have someone in this administration held accountable for something, for God’s sake. And perhaps if Boxer has several hundred thousand signatures on...

A former foreign fighter in Iraq testifies that the U.S.-backed Iraqi "police force" let Zarqawi slip right through their slippery little finger: "While he was awaiting his mission, he says, he was told that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of a terrorist network...

I guess we're about to find out just how infiltrated the Iraqi police and military are:The run-up to Sunday's vote is pressing every available American service member into action in most of Iraq - assisting an Iraqi-ordered nationwide ban on traffic from Saturday to...

Among the various improvements we're making is a bigger, more up-to-date Viewpoints page. The page is updated throughout the day with links to off-site commentary, much of which will not appear on the main page for reasons of space. Commentaries that have already run...

American Roy Hallums pleads for his life on a video released today.In the video, hostage Roy Hallums spoke slowly, rubbing his hands as he sat with the barrel of the rifle inches from his head. He said he had been arrested by a "resistance group" because...

The brouhaha sparked by Seymour Hersh's recent piece exposing Pentagon plans to attack Iran was generated, in part, by his revelation that American agents had crossed the border and were spying on the Iranians on their own territory: Tony Blankley got so bent out of...

Bill at thoughts on the eve of the apocalypse has a chock-full-of-information MegaPost where I found out that Riverbend's posts will be made into a book:In her riveting weblog, a remarkable young Iraqi woman gives a human face to war and occupation. In August 2003,...

The New York Post, in a Saturday editorial, called for punishing Doubleday, the book publisher, for putting out The Al Qaeda Reader, a compendium of writings by Osama bin Laden & his gang: "Americans are right to wonder if Bertelsmann is on their side in the War on...

Inquiring minds want to know: "Why are we flying Allawi around on military aircraft?", asks Steve Clemons.

Moqtada Al-Sadr, no slouch at political maneuvering, appears to have preserved several options for his response to the looming elections. Anthony Shadid, in the Washington Post, on the Sadrists' stance toward the Ayatollah Sistani:Sadr's men have stopped short of...