Iraq

Zen and the Art of Iraqi Regime Change

by Sheldon Richman August 3, 2005

What does it mean to overemphasize the presence of what is absent? That Zen-like question arises from an interview the Associated Press recently published with Douglas Feith, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s departing chief policy advisor. Feith told the AP the Bush administration “overemphasized” the matter of weapons ...

The Pentagon: Islam’s Newest Department of Defense

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 15, 2005

Iraq’s defense minister is assuring everyone that the military agreement that Iraq entered into with Iran last week does not provide that Iran would train Iraq’s troops. That job, he insisted, remains with the U.S. government. Let that sink in for a moment.

Bush Is Right to Link 9/11 with Iraq

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 29, 2005

Even though the Iraqi people and their ruler, Saddam Hussein, had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, President Bush was correct in once again linking 9/11 to his invasion and occupation of Iraq in his speech to the nation last night. Why? Because the motivation behind the 9/11 attacks was ...

Parents Are Right to Protect their Children from the Military

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 6, 2005

A recent front-page story in the New York Times reported growing opposition among parents to the U.S. military’s efforts to contact and recruit their children to join the U.S. armed forces. In the process, parents are also discovering some uncomfortable things about the federal government. One thing parents are ...

Regime Change Was an Immoral Excuse for War

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 8, 2005

Far be it from me to attempt to explain why Pope John Paul II, who spoke out 56 times against President Bush’s War on Iraq, opposed the president’s war. But whatever his reasons were, he was right to do so because President Bush’s true reason for invading Iraq — regime ...

The “Oil-for-Food” Smokescreen

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 4, 2005

Are you familiar with the big “shock” that neoconservatives have experienced over the financial scandal arising out of the infamous “oil-for-food” government program, which was the subject of an investigative report issued Thursday by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker? The oil-for-food program was the socialist program established ...

Let’s Look within Ourselves for Iraq’s WMD

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 17, 2005

Last Wednesday, some two months after the U.S. presidential election, U.S. officials formally ended their two-year search for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Perhaps this will finally put an end to the hopes of many supporters of the Iraq War that a modern, air-conditioned facility would be ...

Submit or Die: The Conquest of Falluja

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 12, 2004

Victory! The unelected dictatorial Iraqi regime of CIA-designee Iyad Allawi, with the assistance of the most powerful police force in the world, has killed 600 “insurgents” in Falluja, flattened and “pacified” the city, and driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Question 1: Does the conquest ...

The Iraq War Has Made Us neither Safer nor Freer

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 25, 2004

In determining whether the invasion of Iraq has been in the interests of America, two questions naturally arise: One, has the invasion made Americans safer from terrorism? and Two, has the invasion made Americans freer with respect to their own government? When the 9/11 attacks occurred, Americans were horribly angry, despite the ...

No WMD but Plenty of Death and Destruction

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 8, 2004

President George W. Bush’s handpicked investigator charged with investigating whether there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has now rendered his final report: There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Period. No stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons. No nuclear weapons. No factories ...

Saddam as the Twentieth Hijacker

by James Bovard September 1, 2004

The 9/11 commission reported in June that there was no “collaborative relationship” between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, and thus that Bush’s Enemy No. 1 had no role in the 9/11 attacks. Far from finding any partnership between the two, the report noted that bin Laden “at one time sponsored anti-Saddam Islamists ...

Exactly How Has Bush’s War Made Us Safer?

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 19, 2004

President Bush claims that his war on Iraq has made Americans safer. His primary rationale is that by removing from power a foreign dictator who was supposedly bent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction, Americans are safer as a result. Unfortunately for the American people, however, Bush’s reasoning is both ...