Entries from Commentary tagged with 'Iraq'
Iraq Money Down the Rat Hole
What can you get for a trillion bucks? Or make that $1.6 trillion, if you take the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as tallied by the majority staff of Congress' Joint Economic Committee (JEC). Or is it the...
Tyranny Of The Tiny Minority
Wondering why Congress rarely passes anything the public wants? Then grab Thomas Geoghegan's 1999 memoir, "The Secret Lives of Citizens." The book shows that, like the Da Vinci Code, the answers to such important questions are often out in the...
Will Durst: Darting Squirters - Featured Comedy
Four Star General David Petraeus spoke of George Bush's vaunted troop surge as having unintended consequences, i.e.; the squirts. And no, I'm not kidding. By putting pressure on targeted segments of the bad guys we have caused them to,...
Tomgram: Fighting Words - Featured Commentary
From "mission accomplished" through those endless "turning points" and "tipping points" up to the "brink" of "the abyss" and "the precipice," and back again, American officials, military and civilian, in Baghdad and Washington, have never spared the images or...
Tomgram: How Permanent Are Those Bases? - Featured Commentary
Finally, the great American disconnect may be ending. Only four years after the invasion of Iraq, the crucial facts-on-the-ground might finally be coming into sight in this country -- not the carnage or the mayhem; not the suicide car...
Robert Scheer: Iraq Is The New Korea? - Featured Commentary
The 50-year Iraq war -- bring it on. Not that the media or the Democrats made much of it, but the White House's admission that President Bush is modeling America's presence in Iraq upon the 54-year-old stationing of U.S....
Tom Engelhardt: Did the U.S. lie about cluster bomb use in Iraq?
In a recent inside-the-fold round-up of the previous day's mayhem in Iraq, David S. Cloud, writing for my hometown paper, devoted 729 words to an account of American casualties from IEDs ("Six American soldiers and their interpreter were killed by...
Will Durst: You Gotta Love Dick - Featured Comedy
You gotta love Dick. Vice President Cheney that is. He made another unannounced visit to Iraq in his unofficial capacity as heavy schtarker foreign policy hit man for that Halliburton subsidy, the Bush White House. "So, Mister Iraqi Prime...
Tomgram: The Nearly Two Million Dollar Gap - Featured Commentary
What value has a human life? We usually think of this in terms of sentiment -- of memories, grief, love, longing, of everything, in short, that is too deep and valuable to put a price upon. Then again, is...
Cynthia Tucker: Should We Expect More Hadithas? - Featured Commentary
In a scathing report on the aftermath of the massacre at Haditha, an Army general has concluded that Marine Corps commanders in Iraq simply didn't value the lives of Iraqi civilians very highly. It took determination, the general pointed...
Tomgram: Eyes Eternally on the Prize - Featured Commentary
In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2002-2003, oil was seldom mentioned. Yes, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz did describe the country as afloat "on a sea of oil" (which might fund any American war and...
Robert Jensen: Moving Beyond Anti-War Politics - Featured Commentary
As Congress sends its bill requiring partial troop withdrawals from Iraq to the White House for a certain veto, it has never been clearer that mobilizing against this war is necessary, but not enough. Congressional Democrats may be willing...
Tomgram: The Cho in the White House - Featured Commentary
Last January 16th, a car bomb blew up near an entrance to Mustansiriya University in Baghdad -- and then, as rescuers approached, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the crowd. In all, at least 60 Iraqis, mostly female...
Tomgram: "I Am Now a Refugee" - Featured Commentary
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new figures on the disintegrating health situation in Iraq where, according to the group, 100 people a day die, on average, and countless more are wounded. Of the injured who manage...
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