This morning on CNN Late Edition Wolf Blitzer asked American Enterprise Institute spokeswoman Danielle Pletka about the comparison between Iraq and Vietnam. Pletka said: "Senator McCain speaking at the American Enterprise Institute on Friday said This isn't Vietnam....
‘Representative Group of Soldiers’: Another Media Setup
It was all over the media yesterday: "Soldiers Tell Gates They Back Surge" CNN TV reported that "a small but representative sample" of troops met with Gates and unanimously urged him to send more troops, presenting this view as a contrast to the views of US commanders...
Antiwar.com Is 11 Years Old Today
On December 21, 1995, Antiwar.com was born. On that day, I made the first posting to the site. Since then, we have continued to upgrade, adding daily news updates starting in 1998, going to round-the-clock coverage during the Kosovo War in 1999. Today, Antiwar.com is...
Democratic Warmonger on C-Span
Thursday morning, Democratic Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the incoming head of the House Intelligence Panel, will appear on C-Span's Washington Journal. He is scheduled for 8:00-8:30am Eastern Time. Yesterday, Reyes suggested that the US needs to send another 30,000 troops...
Breaking News in the War on Terror!
Wind-breaking news, that is.
Rummy and the Markets
The markets react to the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld: US Stocks End Higher After Rumsfeld News Military Contractors' Shares Fall on News of Rumsfeld Resignation Hmmm.....
The American Conservative Looking for Asst. Editor
The American Conservative Needs You! The magazine is hiring for these positions: Assistant Editor Excellent literary and journalistic skills. Considerable agreement with the themes of the magazine and engagement in the world of ideas. Office Manager Customer service,...
Bush: “It’s Hard to Connect Iraq and War on Terror!”
I could not believe he actually said it, and I am sure he wasn't supposed to. Earlier this week, in an exclusive interview, President Bush told Katie Couric: "One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
18 US and British Troops Killed in Iraq This Week
Three more US soldiers were killed today in Iraq, bringing this week's total for US and British troops killed in Iraq to 18. The US military's total losses since the March 2003 invasion now total 2,662, according to Pentagon figures.
Antiwar.com Server Problems
We are back up, partially. Last night we had a massive server failure. At this point, we do not know the cause. Our efforts at this point are going into restoring the site, then we will figure out what caused it. We expect to be updating the page shortly with the...


