War Without End
Mainstream Lookback at Iraq: Yes, You Can Scream Now
Twitter has been on fire today with myriad quips, snarks, I told you sos and above all, honest lamentations on the 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq. There's also something else -- blowback on the mainstream punditocracy and media sheeplesphere, not so...
My Time in the Tower of London
Musing how Bush's war on terror and invasion of Iraq ten years ago changed the world... Here's one of my old fav pieces first published in 2006 by the Future of Freedom Foundation, supplemented with a few photos I took. When I visited the Tower of London, I was...
The Lie That Got Us In: The Bush Administration Knew There Were No WMDs in Iraq
Charles Duelfer, who led the CIA's Iraq Survey Group in 2004, argues a stunning yet popularly held belief in Foreign Policy magazine, that the Bush administration did not lie about Iraq's alleged WMD program; they were just wrong about it. "The intelligence wasn't...
Bush’s Forgotten Fabrications on Iraq
Following up on John Glaser's excellent post on 9/11 & the Iraq war, here are a couple pieces I wrote shortly before and after Bush attacked Iraq. I had thought that Bush's rascalities would evoke a much stronger backlash than actually occurred. The mainstream...
Tenth Anniversary of Iraq Invasion: Lessons & Warnings for an Illegal War on Iran
March 19 is the tenth anniversary of invasion of Iraq by the United States, Britain and their allies. George W. Bush declared that the goals of the invasion were "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to...
9/11 and Iraq: The War’s Greatest Lie
The Bush administration's primary justification for launching the Iraq War is thought, probably correctly, to be an alleged WMD program that did not exist. The coterie of delusional neoconservatives surrounding Bush and Cheney contributed to a systematic process of...
A Month of Mournful Anniversaries
I Should Be Happy About the Drone Debate, But I’m Not
During my junior year of college I was interning at a news show and we were filming a bit on 47th street when a young Pakistani man walked up to me. He said that he and some friends were holding a vigil for those who had died in a recent drone killing, and wanted to...
