More Tragedy
in Slow Motion
Nixon Tried It in Vietnam
But With Enormous Casualties
BY Carolyn Eisenburg
November 26, 2006, Newsday
http://tinyurl.com/yeunlf
Our pugnacious president visited Vietnam last week and found the lesson for Iraq: “We’ll succeed unless we quit.” In this reading of history, the United States was defeated in Vietnam because of a failure of will. If George W. […]

[This story is finally getting some national attention. The preface below is from chicago.indymedia.org Next is Ritscher’s Testament that he left behind. He videotaped his self-immolation, but the tape remains with his family. The last piece below is a belated article from the Chicago Tribune.]
Malachi Ritscher:
A Martyr For Peace
A Chicago activist burns himself
alive for the […]

Bush’s Vietnam Analogy
By Robert Scheer
Truthdig via the Nation
November 22, 2006
President Bush has said many dumb things in defense of his Iraq policy. Citing the Vietnam War as a model, however, is perhaps his most ludicrous yet.
This past week found the President sitting before a bust of the victorious Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, seemingly unaware […]

Documents Reveal
Secret Talks Between
US & Iraqi Resistance
By Tom Hayden
Huffington Post
November 25, 2006
Failures on the battlefield and in the recent American elections are propelling the Bush Administration to consider significant changes in Iraq policy. Having placed the Shiite majority in power, the Administration now wonders if the country is being delivered to Iran. Having fought […]

US Hawk Hits Out at ‘War on Terror’
By Guy Dinmore in Washington
November 24 2006
http://tinyurl.com/yds5xp
Fred Iklé, a Nixon-era arms control veteran and mentor to the current generation of nuclear “hawks”, has an apocalyptic vision of the future.
However, as a contrarian who confounds his neo-conservative admirers, he is also highly critical of the Bush administration’s handling of […]

New Media Offensive
for the Iraq War

By Norman Solomon
Truthout.org
16 November 2006

The American media establishment has launched a major offensive against the option of withdrawing US troops from Iraq.
In the latest media assault, right-wing outfits like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial page are secondary. The heaviest firepower is now coming from the most valuable […]

Murtha Can Lead
an Iraq Withdrawal
By Arianna Huffington
Alternet.org
Nov. 10, 2006
Everywhere you look, “experts” are sifting through the rubble of last night and offering standard-issue, conventional wisdom-approved explanations for the GOP’s defeat. For a perfect example, check out Ron Brownstein’s reading of things in the LA Times, where he divines that the “GOP ceded the center and […]

ANTIWAR REFERENDUM PASSES
BY OVERWHELMING MAJORITIES
IN CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY
SUBURBS, ILLINOIS CITIES
CHICAGO (Nov 8, 2006) - Huge numbers of voters across the state of Illinois, wherever antiwar referendums appeared on the ballot, voted to stop the war and ‘immediately begin an orderly and rapid withdrawal.’
At 3am, in the City of Chicago, with 95 percent of precincts reporting, […]

Recommendations
to the Iraq Study Group,.
James A. Baker and
Lee Hamilton, Co-chairs.
By Tom Hayden
According to reliable surveys, strong majorities in America, England, and Iraq favor a timetable for the rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. U.S. soldiers are dying and being wounded in a cause their countrymen view as a mistake.
A majority of Iraqis […]