You remember the Strategy for Victory? How about Stay the Course or When They Stand Up We’ll Stand Down ? What about Cheney’s light at the end of the tunnel or – my personal favourite – a few dead enders? … Continue reading →

Saint Frank’s column today notices how we are all turning our back on Iraq, even the most passionate among us. But it’s not sustainable. General Petraeus and Mr. Crocker define victory as “sustainable security” in Iraq. But both Colin Powell … Continue reading →

NYT has a nice piece about the absurdity of the campaign trail. People are asking the candidates about all kinds of shit like whether to get rid of the penny and the dollar bill and trying to make them eat … Continue reading →

My fellow Americans, By the end of today, American, Australian and British forces will have launched a large scale invasion of Iraq – a country in the Middle East about which you know very little. We have tried, over the … Continue reading →

Before the end of this year, the Bush administration will claim that the War in Iraq is nothing to do with the War on Terror and that no-one had ever claimed that success in Iraq was crucial to the War … Continue reading →

I have wanted to say something like this for a long while, but this letter to the NYTimes editor says it perfectly. As a longtime peace activist who was opposed to the Iraq war from the beginning, I deeply resent … Continue reading →

In my RSS feed this morning, I have three blog entries from otherwise normal-seeming people who suggest that maybe it’s somewhat unusual to invade foreign countries without a really good reason. There was mine, of course, and Ron’s – it … Continue reading →

I know almost nothing about Lamont except that he is very, very rich and that he just won the Democratic primary for the senate seat in Connecticut that Joe Lieberman considered his own. For all I know, Lamont may or … Continue reading →

I want to address Rob’s comments to my previous post more fully by quoting from Robert Wright’s contemporary analysis from March 2003. Rob makes two related claims: It’s true that we didn’t know for sure whether or not Saddam had … Continue reading →

I came across this from 2003 It has been a week of some vindication for hawks, but doves are right in denying that their full arguments — about the dangers of preemptive war, fomenting terrorism, destabilizing world alliances, and so … Continue reading →