The neoconservatives have issued their own statement on immigration, supporting pending Congressional legislation for militarization of the borders using federal troops for "border enforcement, and interior enforcement (employer sanctions)." The letter is signed by 39...
DC Forum: “Right Against War with Iran,” June 21
This Wednesday, June 21, the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy Presents "Right Against War with Iran." Ivan ElandIndependent Institute, Antiwar.com Columnist"The United States Might Have to Accept a Nuclear Iran" Philip GiraldiFormer CIA officer, partner in...
‘My Republican Father Hated This War’
On this Father's Day, frequent AWC contributor Dr. Teresa Whitehurst recalls her father's view of the Iraq war.
About That Realistic Game Plan…
Arthur Silber is back among the blogging, and at the end of a post today he reissues an old favorite of mine from 2003: "It's Your Goddamned Mess. You Be 'Constructive.'" (I cited it in this 2004 piece.) Today's remarks, on the stay-the-course fundamentalists who run...
Follow the Money — If You Can …
Remember that $9 billion that somehow got "lost" in Iraq? Boxes of cash were shipped from the Federal Reserve to Iraq, where a former Coalition Provisional Authority official testified that our guys were playing football with blocks of $100 bills and an investigator...
Hating Hillary
During the Clinton years, hating Hillary Clinton was a cottage industry on the Right. Now that she is moving toward a presidential run, and trying to position herself as a "centrist," disdain for the former First Lady is now pandemic on the Left. Her recent appearance...
Streaming Atrocities
A four-minute video of a Marine singing a "song" about killing an iraqi family may be a hit with the War Party, but it is provoking widespread disgust -- and an investigation. AP reports: "The singer is shown playing a guitar and singing about meeting an Iraqi woman...
It Was Never About Rove
Matt Drudge is kvetching about the slowness of the left-blogosphere in reacting to the announcement that Karl Rove will not be charged with any crimes in the Plame investigation, but regular readers of Antiwar.com will not be surprised by this turn of events --...
Some Job
Regarding the Haditha massacre, we have been told by the Pentagon that 99.9 percent of soldiers perform their jobs magnificently. Let's hope not. What is their job? It is to kill people and break things. The job of U.S. soldiers is to bring death and destruction to...
Good News for al-Qaeda? and a Prophetic Post
Is the death of al-Zarqawi good news for the US military? Or is it good news for al-Qaeda? Reports from April indicate that Zarqawi had been "demoted" within al-Qaeda. Huthayfah Azzam, son of Abdullah Azzam, the mentor of both Osama bin Laden and Mr. Zarqawi, said...
