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...
Was I just dreaming, or did I see David Frum, Richard Perle, and David Byrne together on CNBC last night? OK, they weren't together, but they were all guests on the comely Maria Bartiromo's program. Frum & Perle were promoting their new foray into children's...
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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William Rivers Pitt presents this powerful perpective on who will be the soldier whose death will receive the dubious honor of being The Five Hundred in our continuing tragic war in Iraq. It will be upon us soon. Sometime, likely before January is out, the 500th...
In a bold move sure to confuse the Bush campaign, The New Republic has endorsed five Democrats for president. Joe Lieberman gets the editors' nod, however, and the cover. Here's why: [T]he fight against Saddam Hussein falls within a hawkish liberal tradition that...
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,...
Every time I question either the policies or character of the "reformers" in the former Yugoslavia, there's guaranteed to be at least one letter accusing me of sympathies for the nationalists, nationalist-socialists, etc. My disdain for democracy really gets people's...
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...
