A Health Survey in Abu Ghraib

Many American troops serving in Iraq have fallen victim to what has been diagnosed by the Pentagon as leishmaniasis, an endemic parasitic skin afflication caused by biting flies. Iraqis have also been beset with skin afflictions since the war started, but these have...

Who’s Carol?

As blog readers may have noticed, there is a new blogger in the Antiwar.com ranks: Carol Watson. She has been an invaluable volunteer researcher for last six months. The Iraq Casualties page rarely misses an important story or statistic, and I give most of the credit...

The Clueless Andrew Sullivan…

Heartily recommends Aleksandar Jokic’s “Iraq Is No Vietnam, But It May Be Poland” from “Today’s Spotlight.” Is Andrew really so ignorant of our critique of neoconservatism as to think that the Lenin comparison is new? If so, I...

Despised by All the Right People

Professional bore Peter Beinart of The New Republic gets his tutu in a knot over Dennis Kucinich setting the Democratic agenda on the war. (I read about this over at Andrew Sullivan’s site. Thanks,...