From The Jewish Week: President George W. Bush will do better among Jewish voters in November than he did in 2000, even though Jews are much less supportive of his Iraq and anti-terror policies than other Americans. And former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who hopes to be...
I Wouldn’t Call It a Mass Movement, but…
Monday's column has generated a lot of reader response. It has also gotten plugged by the Christian Science Monitor, FAIR, and Jim Henley.
Mayonnaise of Mass Destruction
A Halliburton whistleblower gets fired for trying to spare American soldiers from food poisoning. Don't read this just before eating. "On July, 17, 2003, Heather Yarbrough flew to Kuwait to start a new job: monitoring the quality and safety of food served to soldiers...
Fighting the Israeli-Palestinian War on the Dirt Roads of Alabama
From the Sunday Montgomery [Ala.] Advertiser: Davis Tops List for Perk Trips Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, accepted trips from special interests that cost nearly $13,000. Davis flew to Israel, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pittsburgh. Davis' weeklong trip...
Think I Was Too Harsh in Monday’s Column?
Speaking of the "capture" theory, Daniel McCarthy sends in this item from the print version of National Review, Jan. 26 issue: Former Marine Corps general Anthony C. Zinni is a critic of the Iraq war. Saddam Hussein "was contained," Zinni told the Washington Post in a...
“Surreal” Is an Overused Term, but It Fits Here
Was I just dreaming, or did I see David Frum, Richard Perle, and David Byrne together on CNBC last night? OK, they weren't together, but they were all guests on the comely Maria Bartiromo's program. Frum & Perle were promoting their new foray into children's...
Chickenhawk or the Egg?
With all the talk of neoconservative influence, it's important to remember that neoconservatism is only one of many ingredients in Bush foreign policy--an important ingredient, worth discussing, but it sometimes overshadows everything else. Some antiwar conservatives...
I’ll Take the Old Republic, Thank You Very Much
In a bold move sure to confuse the Bush campaign, The New Republic has endorsed five Democrats for president. Joe Lieberman gets the editors' nod, however, and the cover. Here's why: [T]he fight against Saddam Hussein falls within a hawkish liberal tradition that...
But I Wanna Be a Conspiracy Theorist!
Aw shucks, turns out we at Antiwar.com haven't been conjuring visions of a dark neocon conspiracy, after all. Jim Henley goes super-sleuth on something called Google: I read a lot of criticisms of neoconservative foreign policy. Been reading them for years, actually,...
Atrocity Exhibition, with an Unlikely Curator
Anyone catch this report of a U.S. atrocity in Iraq? I'm not sure I buy it, but it's not from an antiwar/anti-occupation source-- it's from Zeyad. Yes, that Zeyad, he of "kill and rape all the Sunnis" fame. Glenn Reynolds and co. had no problem with that little...


