Vermont Wants Their Guard Troops Back

In what is hopefully the first salvo by the states against the power of the federal war-making machine, Vermont lawmakers from both houses of the legislature are pushing bills to pull the state's national guard troops from Iraq. State Rep. Michael Fisher, D-Lincoln,...

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Three Cheers for Three Percent?

I was disappointed that Ron Paul only got 3% of the votes in yesterday’s Florida primary.  The trendline for his vote  percentages in most of elections since Iowa has been downward.  I think Ron Paul is doing great in the debates and in broadcast interviews. ...

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Roadside Bomb Hits Coffin on Way to Funeral

When searching for photos, I often run across some very sad stories that don't make it into the regular news articles. An Iraqi man gestures next to a coffin in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. The coffin was on top a mini bus for a funeral ceremony when a...

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AntiWar in FLA Primary?

Are any of the candidates in tomorrow's presidential primaries in Florida running advertisements criticizing the Iraq war?  Are any of the candidates making opposition to the Iraq war their premier issue? Is the antiwar issue being raised in the media or in Q & A...

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Medics on Armed Patrol in Iraq

I ran across this photo and was surprised at the caption. I may be naive but I was genuinely surprised at a medic leading an armed patrol in Baghdad. U.S. Army Spc. Kris Hostetler, 21, from Nashville, Tenn., a medic with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry...

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Media Bias, 101

A lesson in media bias -- the headline of the CNN International story give us one narrative: "Kremlin critic barred from election" ... And the body of the piece reports quite another: "Russia's Central Election Commission disqualified one of Kremlin's critics from the...

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Huckabee and Those WMD in Jordan

Following the GOP debate on Thursday night, Huckabee showed both his ignorance and his willingness to believe fairy tales, regardless of whether he heard them or made them up himself. During the debate, the Huckster said that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction (a...

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Looking for Facebook App Developer

Antiwar.com would like to make the casualty counter available to Facebook users. Do any of our readers know how to write a simple Facebook application that could grab the data available on a remote javascript file and display it on Facebook profiles? Please contact...

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Bush Does Abraham

The intellectual bootlickers surrounding Bush have apparently persuaded him that he is the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln.   Fox News recently had unprecedented access to Bush to produce a documentary to air on Sunday night: ““George W. Bush: Fighting to the...

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