Calling David Brooks!

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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