WASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement on the floor of the House concerning an expected vote on a $33 billion supplemental war funding bill:
"In a little more than a year the United States flew $12 billion in cash to Iraq, much of it in $100 bills, shrink wrapped […]

Photo: Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Antiwar Voice in Congress
What will Congressional
Democrats do now?
By Tom Hayden
Dec. 8, 2009 - Congressional Democrats held a closed caucus Dec. 8 to consider their stance on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and what to do about the president’s 30,000 more troops, whose deployment will begin without a Congressional decision or […]

Obama Announces Afghanistan Escalation
By Tom Hayden
December 1, 2009

It’s time to strip the Obama sticker off my car.
Obama’s escalation in Afghanistan is the last in a string of disappointments. His flip-flopping acceptance of the military coup in Honduras has squandered the trust of Latin America. His Wall Street bailout leaves the poor, the […]

Will We Stay
50 Years in
Afghanistan?

Commentary by Tom Hayden: An Influential Pentagon Strategist
Advocates A Multi-Decade Counterinsurgency Campaign

By Tom Hayden
The Nation
Let us say, hypothetically, that American forces kill or capture Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, enabling President Obama to declare victory and bring our troops home. Would he? Not according to the […]

Why Iraq Could Blow up
in John McCain’s Face
By Patrick Cockburn,
CounterPunch
March 8, 2008,
http://www.alternet.org/story/79037/
In Baghdad the Iraqi government is eager to give the impression that peace is returning. “Not a single sectarian murder or displacement was reported in over a month,” claimed Brigadier Qasim Ata, the spokesman for the security plan for the capital. In the US, […]

After Super Tuesday,
Time for Peace Movement
to Get Off the Sidelines
By Tom Hayden
With Iraq a key issue and the Democratic primaries unresolved, isn’t it time for the peace movement to get off the sidelines and become more engaged? Shouldn’t we be doing everything possible to make the candidates compete for the peace vote? Think of the […]

The Baker Agenda:
Troops out,
Oil Companies in?
By Tom Hayden
CommonDreams.org
December 8, 2006
Recommendations 62 and 63 in the Iraq Study Group Report confirm that control of Iraqi oil is a fundamental premise of Administration policy.
This was denied in the first years of the war, but this week the President confirmed his belief that Islamic extremists will “gain access […]