What with all the bludgeoning of war opponents over the oil-for-food scandal, I think it's time for those of us on the antiwar Right to come clean: we love the U.N. Always have, always will. Yep, everyone here at Antiwar.com just adores global government,...
It takes Victor David "VD" Hanson four paragraphs of mild angst over the Abu Ghraib atrocities to segue into his apologia. The rationalizations for American torture of Iraqi prisoners are in five bulleted points. I'll sum them up so you don't have to read it. There's...
This morning, I was having my coffee and reading my local newspaper when it dawned on me that something was indeed missing from this noble rag. Well, on the front page and in the main section there was the story of the hostage who managed to escape his captors in...
This is too funny: Myers: Former Saddam General Not in Charge in Falluja Gen. Jasim Mohamed Saleh, a former general in Saddam Hussein's army, is not in charge in the volatile Iraqi city of Falluja and is still being vetted for a possible peacekeeping role, the...
Thomas Hamill wandered up to an American patrol in Balad, between Baghdad and Tikrit today. The press accounts are calling it an "apparent escape" though the demand by the mujahiden originally was for the Marines to end the siege of Fallujah, so I expect that it will...
With world attention fixed on the Abu Ghraib prison torture outrage, an important story from Saudi Arabia is going under the radar. I first saw mention of the more exotic aspects of this story on Raed Jarrar's blog where he wrote: The thing no one said about the...
The brilliant Oxyconservative Rush Limbaugh, as brought to my attention by Arthur Silber. Well, my objection is a bit pedantic, viz., when have we gone 20 years without war?
Oh, now I get it. Iraqi force to provide security for first convoy to Fallujah "In a few days we will have our first convoy go through the centre of Fallujah," said General James Conway, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. The US commander said that he...
Seymour Hersh, writing in the New Yorker, has an extremely detailed account of the hideous torture inflicted by American soldiers on detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. A fifty-three-page report, obtained by The New Yorker, written by Major General Antonio M. Taguba and...
I'll let Riverbend tell you what she, as an Iraqi, thinks of those disgusting photos taken at Abu Ghraib prison, from her blog Baghdad Burning: Those Pictures... The pictures are horrific. I felt a multitude of things as I saw them... the most prominent feeling was...
