Monthly Archive: April 2004

The 21-year-old Marine corporal explained what it was like to practice his lethal skill in the battle for this city. “It’s a sniper’s dream,” he said in polite, matter-of-fact tones. “You can go anywhere...

The battle of Fallujah, together with the conflicts unfolding in Shiia cities and Baghdad slums, are high-stakes tests, not just of U.S. policy in Iraq, but of Washington’s ability to dominate what Pentagon planners...

Heading into the 2000 election, then-candidate George W. Bush blasted the Clinton administration’s 1990s deployments to places like Bosnia and Kosovo, saying they depleted our military’s readiness. “Our military is low on parts, pay...

Humanitarian workers speak of US gunmen firing at ambulances and civilians … The head of mission of a European humanitarian agency with staff in Falluja told BBC News Online that, according to his staff,...

At least 20 percent of U.S. spending in Iraq is lost to corruption … Iraqi Ministry of Health officials sell hospital supplies on the black market, depriving sick people of vital equipment. Dr. Ali...

Iran-Contra involved a network of aides outsourcing U.S. foreign policy like a separate government to circumvent the separation of powers, by selling missiles to Iran to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. The Iraq war was...

So King Bush has appointed the Torturer’s Friend John Negroponte as Ambassador to Iraq. While he was Ambassador in Honduras during the 1980s he shielded the Honduran military from fallout concerning their use of...

[private] security costs could claim up to 25 percent of the $18 billion budgeted for reconstruction … that could delay or force the cancellation of billions of dollars worth of projects to rebuild schools,...

Why mess with the Boston Globe’s original headline? Following an important meeting on Iraq war planning in late 2001, President Bush told the public that the discussions were about Afghanistan. He made no mention...

During an interview in Basra last week Brig Carter acknowledged that the Coalition’s presence in southern Iraq was entirely dependent on the goodwill of the local Shia Muslim leader, Sayid Ali al-Safi al-Musawi. He...