Ten years ago, in March of 2003, Iraqis braced themselves for the anticipated "Shock and Awe" attacks that the U.S. was planning to launch against them.  The media buildup for the attack assured Iraqis that barbarous assaults were looming. I was living in Baghdad at...

Musing how Bush's war on terror and invasion of Iraq ten years ago changed the world... Here's one of my old fav pieces first published in 2006 by the Future of Freedom Foundation, supplemented with a few photos I took. When I visited the Tower of London, I was...

Charles Duelfer, who led the CIA's Iraq Survey Group in 2004, argues a stunning yet popularly held belief in Foreign Policy magazine, that the Bush administration did not lie about Iraq's alleged WMD program; they were just wrong about it. "The intelligence wasn't...

Following up on John Glaser's excellent post on 9/11 & the Iraq war, here are a couple pieces I wrote shortly before and after Bush attacked Iraq. I had thought that Bush's rascalities would evoke a much stronger backlash than actually occurred. The mainstream...

March 19 is the tenth anniversary of invasion of Iraq by the United States, Britain and their allies. George W. Bush declared that the goals of the invasion were "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to...

The Bush administration's primary justification for launching the Iraq War is thought, probably correctly, to be an alleged WMD program that did not exist. The coterie of delusional neoconservatives surrounding Bush and Cheney contributed to a systematic process of...

This month is chock-full of mournful anniversaries. Most prominent today is the initiation of the Bush administration's bombing campaign and invasion of Iraq in 2003, observed today by Antiwar.com's very own Justin Raimondo. The anniversary has also been commemorated...