Does the Right-Wing
Want Never-Ending War?
By Joshua Holland
Beaver County Peace Links via AlterNet
August 24, 2010 - In a New York Times column titled “How Fox Betrayed Petraeus,” Frank Rich argues that the right-wing freak-out over the Islamic community center to be erected in downtown Manhattan hurts U.S. efforts in Afghanistan. “How do you win […]

We’re Now the Antiwar Majority,
So Who Will Represent Us in 2010?
Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose war in Afghanistan
Aug 20, 2010 LAWRENCE, MASS — A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Barack Obama sends tens of thousands more […]

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 […]

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 […]

Campaign Promises
Are Empty Until
the War Ends
By Bill Boyarsky,
Truthdig, via Alternet.org
January 13, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/73158/
MANCHESTER, N.H. — When Hillary Clinton, seriously set back by the Iowa caucuses, landed in New Hampshire to resuscitate her presidential campaign, the first question from the audience was unsparingly blunt: “When will the troops come home?”
She replied, as she has done before, that […]

A Challenge to Obama:
‘Tom Hayden Democrats’
and Stopping the War
“The Democrats have been stuck in the arguments of Vietnam, which means that either you’re a Scoop Jackson Democrat or you’re a Tom Hayden Democrat and you’re suspicious of any military action. And that’s just not my framework.”
- Sen. Barack Obama, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 4, […]

Photo: Katz at Oct 2, 2000 Rally
CAWI’s Start, Oct 27
and Obama’s Future
By Marilyn Katz

October 2, 2002 - perhaps best known now as the day that presidential candidate Barack Obama came out at a rally in Chicago in opposition to the impending invasion of Iraq. Came out against the impending war at a moment when […]

Voting to Bring
the Troops Home
By Ricky Baldwin
Z Magazine
January 2007
http://tinyurl.com/vslbp
Press reports nationwide proclaimed the most recent U.S. elections a “referendum” on the war in Iraq and on the president’s performance and policies, but mostly without noting the hundreds of actual referendum votes on these very issues in towns and counties from California to Massachusetts. Adding legitimacy […]