Category: War in Iraq

  • Kucinich: Articles of Impeachment To Be Filed On Cheney

    Articles of Impeachment To Be Filed On Cheney Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), the most liberal of the Democratic presidential candidates in the primary field, declared in a letter sent to his Democratic House colleagues this morning that he plans to file articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

  • White House proposes retroactive war crimes protection

    White House proposes retroactive war crimes protection The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policy makers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal.

  • BBC Newsnight Does a John Bolton Takedown

    (via ThinkProgress and Digg) “What staggers me about this clip is Bolton’s point-blank view that the US had no responsibility to impose order after the invasion, and no responsibility for security within the country. Bolton actually says that the only error Bush really made was not giving the Iraqis ‘a copy of the Federalist papers […]

  • Does the President Have a Right to Not Encounter Disagreement?

    Alex Young and Leslie Weise attended a presidential forum on Social Security in Denver back in 2005 and were ejected after security noticed they had an anti-war bumper sticker. The forum was funded with taxpayer money. From the briefing for the White House: The president’s right to control his own message includes the right to […]

  • US now detaining 18,000 prisoners in Iraq

    Blessed are the peacemakers: The United States currently holds some 18,000 detainees in two US-run Iraqi detention facilities, Camp Bucca and Camp Cropper, the Washington Post reported Sunday, citing US military sources. In the past month, the US has increased security in Baghdad, leading to an additional 1,000 arrests. The detainees are considered “enemy combatants”, […]

  • Wolfowitz's Apology: Don't Hate Me Because I Helped Launch The Iraq War

    Think Progress Wolfowitz tried to explain away his behavior, claiming his mistakes were made because “he had to deal with it when he was new to this institution and trying to navigate in uncharted waters.” He added that criticism of him should not focus on his role in the Iraq war. “For people who disagree […]

  • Bill Moyers Program on Iraq War Lies to Air April 25 on PBS

    Program that Tivo: David Swanson | Record of Iraq War Lies to Air April 25 on PBS: Bill Moyers has put together an amazing 90-minute video documenting the lies that the Bush administration told to sell the Iraq war to the American public, with a special focus on how the media led the charge. I’ve […]

  • Glenn Greenwald Parses The Weekly Standard's Craving for a Dictator

    Glenn Greenwald in Salon: Until the Bill Kristols and John Yoos and other authoritarians of that strain entered the political mainstream, I never heard of prominent Americans who describe the power that they want to vest in our political leaders as “near dictatorial.” Anyone with an even passing belief in American political values would consider […]

  • Obama Rides Both Rails Regarding War

    From Daily Kos: Color me confused again. Obama, who so forcefully calls for an end to the war in Iraq in the MoveOn.org debate, who is such a supporter of a March 1, 2008 withdrawal from Iraq that he is “committed to finding the 67 votes we need to override this veto,” who proclaims on […]

  • Military Redeploys Troops with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

    Are we really just trying to screw up as much as possible? On March 9, Army Spc. Smith was ordered to board a plane from Fort Benning, Ga., to deploy back to Iraq, even though he was known to be suffering from chronic post-traumatic stress disorder from a previous tour there. Only weeks prior, military […]