Right-Wingers Can’t
Cover Up Iraq’s
Death Toll Catastrophe
By John Tirman,
AlterNet.org
January 21, 2008
Now I know what Hillary Clinton meant, first hand, by that “vast right-wing conspiracy.” When the Wall Street Journal editorial page and the Sunday Times in London are going after you — along with about 100 right-wing bloggers — rest assured you’ve hit a nerve.
Or is […]

The ‘Terrific News’ In Iraq
By Joseph A. Palermo
The Huffington Post
January 16
I really hate to break it to Michael Barone, William Kristol, Kenneth Pollack, Michael O’Hanlon, and other triumphalists, but the United States is not “winning” in Iraq (whatever that means) and George W. Bush’s “surge strategy” is a failure and a fraud.
I don’t know if […]

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 […]

The Surge: Illusion & Reality
By Conn Hallinan
Portside.org
“Where the dead are ghosts on the fragile abacus used to calculate loss, to estimate tragedy”
–from Body Count by poet Persis Karim
The narrative in the media these days is the success of the U.S. “surge,” which has poured an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into Iraq.
Last month, war critic and […]