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...
During my junior year of college I was interning at a news show and we were filming a bit on 47th street when a young Pakistani man walked up to me. He said that he and some friends were holding a vigil for those who had died in a recent drone killing, and wanted to...
A federal appeals court has just ruled that the CIA cannot continue to "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of the drone war, in a court case prompted by a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU press statement: "This is an...
Robert Dreyfuss thinks Obama's recently revealed policy of supporting Iraqi security forces through the CIA so they can fight al-Qaeda affiliates there and cut off the flow of fighters pouring into Syria is nonsensical. "We’re backing the same guys in Syria that we’re...
CPAC is off to its usual mellow start. TalkingPointsMemo reports: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), speaking at conservative gathering CPAC, declared that "Vietnam was winnable, but people in Washington decided we would not win it!" "If you go to war you better mean it,"...
