Category Anti-war

Bush is not the problem

Bush is a symptom, the problems go much deeper than him. The US has been invading other countries, generally under made-up pretexts, for decades. It’s a war economy, and it’s been that way since WWII. It’s no mistake that a…

One sick puppy

Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer was just convicted of negligent homicide in the death of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush, who was savagely beaten for two days before being suffocated by Welshofer. Here’s some of Welshofer’s testimony. It’s a…

The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq

A Dig led by Ron Kovic Thirty-eight years ago, on Jan. 20, 1968, I was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam. It is a date that I can never forget, a…

Army officer guilty in torture death

A military jury late Saturday convicted an Army interrogator of negligent homicide in the death of an Iraqi general who had been stuffed face-first into a sleeping bag. Prior to that, he’d been brutally beaten for two days. Every American…

Hillary to right of Bush on Iran

A tough-talking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Wednesday suggested she would back a military strike on Iran if that country’s radical Islamic government attempts to build nuclear weapons. Clinton’s speech seemed to position her somewhat to the right of the Bush…