Army recruiters are getting so desperate for cannon fodder in Iraq that they are blatantly lying to potential recruits. According to an ABC News undercover investigation, Army recruiters even told students that the war in Iraq was over in order to get them to...

Mace Price, over at Stress, has a question he'd like to pose to "defense" secretary Rumsfeld: “Tell me tough guy?—Are you gonna take these arrogant, predictable recriminations out of the likes of Prince Richard Perle and his AIPAC, PNAC, JINSA friends sitting...

Today, Andrew Sullivan quotes the following passage from The American Conservative: Faced on Sept. 11, 2001 with a great challenge, President Bush made little effort to understand who had attacked us and why—thus ignoring the prerequisite for crafting an effective...

"The Assad regime [of Syria] is a typical Arab set-up, unable to survive without the backing of an outside power." That's Amir "Yellow Star" Taheri in today's NY Post. (Via.)

Only in Iraq, of course. Jim Henley explains. For more on the theory of the unitary executive, see Jennifer Van Bergen.

Jonathan Schwarz thinks this takes the cake, but perhaps he should have waited for the follow-up, in which Jim Geraghty denies being an "imbicile." UPDATE: Michael Ledeen thinks we're all idiots.

Senator John Kerry blew a joke. The context makes it clear he was referring to Mr. Bush when he said, "If you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." Mr. Kerry meant to say, "If...

Check out Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan castigating our Leader for the mass death and destruction in Iraq - as though it's not their fault too. [youtube]kB48J_0re2g[/youtube] Via the Osterley Times

For those of you who've been jonesing for a dose of unreported awesomeness in Mesopotamia ever since Chrenkoff quit dealing, here ya go. The Rackees are totally standing up! Of course, you'll never hear that from the treasonous U.S. officers actually in Iraq. (Via.)

Thanks for the many students who submitted their “peace” essay to our Antiwar.com contest. Our extended deadline was yesterday, October 31, and so we will no longer be able to take any more submissions. We are now looking forward to reading and evaluating the...