31 January 2007 | Uncategorized | Hilary Worden
Antiwar.com is pleased to announce the winners of its first-ever Student Essay Contest, held summer 2006. Today we present Hilary Worden of the United States, third place winner in the senior division. Alexia Gilmore Executive director, Antiwar.com “[T]he very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.” [...]
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31 January 2007 | Uncategorized | bsnider
According to President Bush, the additional 21,500 U.S. troops to be deployed in Iraq will provide "the force levels we need" to secure Baghdad. The president would have us believe previous lack of success is because "there were not enough Iraqi and American troops to secure neighborhoods that had been cleared of terrorists and insurgents" [...]
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31 January 2007 | Uncategorized | Paul Craig Roberts
President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq is the greatest crime of the 21st century. Armed with a powerful moral case against Bush, whose lies are responsible for a war that has caused thousands of U.S. casualties and killed vast numbers of Iraqi civilians, Democratic leaders are damning Bush’s war because it did not succeed! [...]
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31 January 2007 | Uncategorized | Patrick J. Buchanan
When Congress finally decides on just the right language for its “non-binding resolution” deploring Bush’s leadership in this war, it might consider a resolution to keep us out of the next one. For America is on a collision course with an Iran of 70 million, and the folks who stampeded us into [...]
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31 January 2007 | Uncategorized | Gareth Porter
When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared last week at the Herzliya conference that Israel could not risk another "existential threat" such as the Holocaust, he was repeating what has become the dominant theme in Israel’s campaign against Iran – that it cannot tolerate an Iran with the technology that could be used to make [...]
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31 January 2007 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Updated at 3:35 a.m. EST, Feb. 1, 2007 At least 273 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead today; this includes 210 suspected militants killed by the Iraqi Army over the last two days. Another 72 Iraqis were injured in violent attacks throughout the country. Also five U.S. servicemembers were reported killed in separate [...]
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31 January 2007 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
Sen. Chuck Hagel’s interview with GQ, no less, is interesting on a number of levels – as a barometer of his status as “the new McCain,” as the statement of an antiwar Republican of the Old Right school, as an expression of sheer outrage at the deception that dragged us into war – but one [...]
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30 January 2007 | Uncategorized | Khadija Abdool Hassam
Antiwar.com is pleased to announce the winners of its first-ever Student Essay Contest, held summer 2006. Today we present Khadija Abdool Hassam of Dubai, honorable mention in the senior division. Alexia Gilmore Executive director, Antiwar.com In this day and age, peace is like a cloud: it comes and it goes. Peace is something [...]
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30 January 2007 | Uncategorized | Zia Mian
The Iraq War is coming up on its fourth anniversary. Increasingly embattled, even desperate, President Bush has decided to send another 21,500 American troops into the fight. They will join over 150,000 U.S. soldiers already deployed in Iraq. In the speech on Jan. 10 explaining his decision, President Bush argued in almost apocalyptic [...]
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30 January 2007 | Uncategorized | Rep. Ron Paul
The Pentagon recently reported that it now spends roughly $8.4 billion per month waging the war in Iraq, while the additional cost of our engagement in Afghanistan brings the monthly total to a staggering $10 billion. Since 2001, Congress has spent more than $500 billion on specific appropriations for Iraq. This sum is not reflected [...]
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