"The accused and his ancestors have been riding our backs for 80 years," says the opinion of a Croatian judge who convicted a local Serb of 'war crimes'. According to the Croatian weekly "Feral Tribune," when ruling in the case on June 30, Judge Branko Milanovic went...
A recently linked-to article in Stars and Stripes proudly proclaims that a Mongolian contingent has finished U.S. peacekeepr training and is ready to deploy to Iraq. This surely ranks as one of the worst ideas ever - save for invading Iraq to begin with, of course....
A reader directed me to an article that shows the wounded count I keep at Antiwar.com may be "way off base." From the Army Public Affairs: As of Sept. 16, Landstuhl[U.S. base in Germany] has treated approximately 6,000 service members from Operation Iraqi Freedom and...
From the Discovery Channel: The legendary Trojan War was won with the help of poisoned arrows, in one of the first attempts of biological warfare, according to the first historical study on the origins of bio-terrorism and chemical weapons. "In this celebrated epic...
Here's Fred Barnes slathering attention on Sen. Hillary Clinton on the Weekly Standard website: President Bush has a surprising defender of his contention that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction--Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York. "The...
John B. Judis has an article 'Sifting Through the Rubble' in the October 1 American Prospect that presents a "balance sheet" of US "failures" in Iraq. According to Judis, (besides generally spreading chaos) the invasion has: - Reversed Arab efforts to reform Saudi...
I put this up as a comment on Gene Healy's blog earlier, so I might as well post it here, too. Healy wrote about Bush's recent interview with Brit Hume on Fox, and one of the funnier/scarier moments in the exchange when Bush said that he gets all of his info from Rice...
I'd rather see Congressman John J. Duncan (R-TN) in the White House. He has consistently opposed the war on Iraq, and for reasons I find more compelling. The speech linked to on Antiwar.com today is great, but it's what he's been saying all along. Check out this...
So a lot of readers are upset that we don't talk up the Kucinich campaign more often. Well, the Massachusetts branch of Kucinich for Prez is running my essay on Howard Dean from a few weeks ago, so I'll give them a little shout-out. Happy?
Faith Fippinger, a 62-year-old retired teacher, faces jail for travelling to Iraq before the war. On what grounds? For three months she travelled around Iraq, guarding oil refineries, teaching in schools and working in hospitals. But when she returned home there was a...
