Obama on Iraq’s ‘Ending’:
A Speech for Endless War
September 6, 2010
By Norman Solomon
Beaver County Peace Links via Z-Net 

On the last night of August, the president used an Oval Office speech to boost a policy of perpetual war.
Hours later, the New York Times front page offered a credulous gloss for the end of “the […]

Let’s Fact Check the AP’s
Fact Checking on Obama’s Speech

By David Swanson
Beaver County Peace Links via WarIsNotaCrime.org
FACT CHECK: Is Iraq combat really over for US?
By CALVIN WOODWARD and ROBERT BURNS (AP)
WASHINGTON — Despite President Barack Obama’s declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead. And in […]

US Combat Ends in Iraq,
But Will Iraq ‘Invite’ US to Stay?
 
By Tom Hayden
Progressive America Rising
While the Obama administration struggles to keep its pledge to end the Iraq war, a behind-the-scenes plan is developing in which the Baghdad regime “invites” the American military to stay.
Managing the withdrawal of combat troops was a significant […]

Iraq: What Will the Remaining
50,000 U.S. Troops Do?
By Mark Thompson / Washington
Beaver County Peace Links via Time Magazine
Aug 20, 2010 - There was a sigh of relief at the Pentagon Wednesday as the U.S. Army’s final combat brigade crossed from Iraq into Kuwait. Generals and their staffs have spent nearly a decade juggling […]

Iraq Withdrawal?
Don’t Believe the Hype,
We’ve Still Got a Way to Go
Posted by Jean Desiree
Beaver County Peace Links via CodePink

If you’re feeling skeptical after hearing President Obama’s latest speech on the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, you’re not alone.

It’s hard to know what to make of a President and an administration […]

Pressure on Congress
Can Help End the War,
Saving Many Lives

 
By Robert Naiman
Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy
Posted: April 6, 2010
In the next several weeks, Congress is likely to be asked to approve $33 billion more for the war in Afghanistan, mainly to pay for the current military escalation, whose focus is […]

Threat to Iraq
Withdrawal Plan
 
By Tom Hayden
Peace & Justice Resource Center
Was it too good to be true? In February at Camp Lejeune, our new President Barack Obama surprised all observers by pledging to withdraw all US troops from Iraq by 2012, in accord with a pact secretly negotiated at the end of the […]

How To Rebuild
The Peace Movement
From the Bottom Up
 
By Tom Hayden
Peace and Justice Resource Center
Here at the PJRC we are exploring ways to implement communications with peace activist at local or regional levels, including a series of conference calls. In the meantime, let me share some specific thoughts about building the peace and justice movement […]

John McCain
betting big
on Iraq
By Bob Drogin
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 23, 2008
WASHINGTON — As America’s war in Iraq enters its sixth year, Sen. John McCain is hoping that his long effort to send thousands more U.S. troops — a “surge” that has helped lower casualties — will propel him into the White House.
But McCain’s record […]

Nothing New
in Obama’s
Iraq Speech
By Tom Hayden
For Huffington Post
Sen. Barack Obama marked the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War with a speech that will disappoint the peace movement while burnishing his hawkish credentials with the national security establishment and media.
He failed to point out that Hillary Clinton’s plan may keep US troops fighting in […]