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Dick Cheney
AP Photo / Manuel Balce Ceneta

His Own Worst Enemy

Dick Cheney has once again accused his critics of giving aid and comfort to the enemy, yet that’s precisely what his administration’s own policies have achieved.

Posted on Mar 13, 2007 104 COMMENTS


Edwards
AP Photo / Mark Hirsch

Coulter’s Slur Puts Spotlight on Edwards

Thank you, Ann Coulter, for boosting the principled but media-neglected presidential candidacy of John Edwards. 

Posted on Mar 6, 2007 76 COMMENTS


Kim Kye Gwan
AP Photo / Greg Baker

Going Back to North Korea, Hat in Hand

There is nothing wrong with negotiating with our enemies rather than weakly blustering at cartoon images of them—I wish we would do the same in our dealings with Iran—but it would be nice if we would stop shooting ourselves in the foot first.

Posted on Feb 27, 2007 17 COMMENTS


Hillary Clinton
AP Photo / Dennis Cook

Hillary’s Calculations Add Up to War

In light of her hawkish posturing and consistent support of the war for all the wrong reasons, the best advice on Hillary’s campaign comes from the candidate herself: If you’re against the war, vote for someone else.

Posted on Feb 20, 2007 163 COMMENTS


Doug Feith
AP Photo / Evan Vucci

Before the Invasion, There Was Feith

The lies of Douglas Feith, exposed by the Pentagon’s inspector general, are the key to understanding the greatest intelligence fiasco in American history.

Posted on Feb 13, 2007 87 COMMENTS


defense expo
targikielce.pl

Bush Budget Delivers the Bacon

President Bush’s outrageous military budget has nothing do with fighting terrorism but everything to do with pumping up the profits of the administration’s generous political donors in the defense industry. So, the question is: Will the Democrats have the guts to stop this betrayal of the public trust? 

Posted on Feb 6, 2007 57 COMMENTS


Molly Ivins
AP / Henny Ray Abrams

A Tribute to Molly

  • Robert Scheer remembers the irreplaceable voice and generous spirit of Truthdig’s most beloved columnist.
  • Anthony Zurcher, a longtime editor and friend, says goodbye and pays tribute to Ivins’ life, work and wisdom.
  • Plus: Molly Ivins’ last column—a stirring call to action against the war.
  • Posted on Jan 31, 2007 80 COMMENTS


    Tenet and Bush
    AP Photo / Lawrence Jackson

    A Case for Impeachment

    Revelations in the perjury trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby re-emphasize the need for an impeachment trial to establish the true story behind President Bush’s erroneous claim about Saddam Hussein’s supposed nuclear weapons program.

    Posted on Jan 30, 2007 141 COMMENTS


    George W. Bush
    AP Photo / Charles Dharapak

    The World Agrees: Stop Him

    Stop him before he kills again. That is the judgment of the American people, and indeed of the entire world, as to the performance of our president, and no State of the Union address can erase that dismal verdict.

    Posted on Jan 23, 2007 177 COMMENTS


    Chuck Hagel
    AP Photo / Gerald Herbert

    Robert Scheer: Chuck Hagel for President!

    If it ever narrows down to a choice between Chuck Hagel and some Democratic hack who hasn’t the guts to fundamentally challenge the president on Iraq, then the conservative Republican from Nebraska will have my vote. Yes, the war is that important.

    Posted on Jan 16, 2007 98 COMMENTS


    Bush holding a skull
    Mr. Fish

    Robert Scheer: Brooding Prince’s Soliloquy

    To surge or not to surge, that is the question. As our prince proposes, once again, to take arms against a sea of troubles, he responds not to the disaster that he has visited upon Iraq, but rather embraces a desperate strategy for salvaging what remains of his reign.

    Posted on Jan 9, 2007 66 COMMENTS


    Saddam Hussein
    AP Photo / Marco Di Lauro, Pool

    Robert Scheer: A Monster of Our Creation

    Someone has to say it: The hanging of Saddam Hussein was an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of President Bush’s claim it was “an important milestone on Iraq’s course to becoming a democracy.”

    Posted on Jan 2, 2007 96 COMMENTS


    Hussein Hanging
    Iraqi state television

    Robert Scheer: Silencing Saddam

    The grisly holiday hanging of Saddam Hussein has been greeted mostly with cheers from the media, but Truthdig editor Robert Scheer takes a different view, noting that even top Nazis, in the Nuremberg trials, received a far superior grade of justice.

    Posted on Dec 29, 2006 195 COMMENTS


    Iraqi contractors
    AP Photo / Khalid Mohammed

    Robert Scheer: Ike Was Right

    Many critics of the war suggest that the U.S. remains in Iraq because it wants that nation’s petroleum. But oil is not the primary reason.  Instead, look to the military-industrial complex, a threat that President Eisenhower warned of in the 1960s.

    Posted on Dec 26, 2006 131 COMMENTS


    Bush and Gates
    AP Photo / Ron Edmonds

    Robert Scheer: Bush Can’t Kick the Habit

    Here we go again: A new secretary of defense and yet another call for ending the war in Iraq by escalating it. What are they smoking in the Bush White House?

    Posted on Dec 19, 2006 135 COMMENTS


    Rumsfeld and Saddam
    indymedia.org

    Robert Scheer: One Last Lie for the Road

    Truthdig’s editor enters the mind of Donald Rumsfeld, who journeyed to Iraq recently to bid farewell to the troops, but ended up repeating the lies that put them at risk.

    Posted on Dec 12, 2006 38 COMMENTS


    Jose Padilla
    New York Times

    Robert Scheer: Becoming What We Despise

    The Founding Fathers won a war, but their true contribution to human history was to tackle head-on the reality that humans and their institutions can so easily become that which they despise.

    Posted on Dec 5, 2006 104 COMMENTS


    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
    AP Photo / Vahid Salemi

    Robert Scheer: Learning to Live With the Ayatollahs

    How in the world did George W. Bush manage to turn Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the “Supreme Leader” of “Axis of Evil” Iran, into a prophet of peace in the Middle East?

    Posted on Nov 28, 2006 58 COMMENTS


    Bush
    AP Photo / Charles Dharapak

    Robert Scheer: In the Shadow of Ho Chi Minh

    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.

    Posted on Nov 21, 2006 50 COMMENTS


    Murtha
    AP Photo / Dennis Cook

    Robert Scheer: Murtha’s No Lefty, But He’s Right

    If they know what’s good for them, the Democrats will heed the call of the voters on Thursday and elect Iraq war critic John Murtha as their leader in the House.

    Posted on Nov 14, 2006 57 COMMENTS


    Rumsfeld, Bush and Gates

    Robert Scheer: Gates Has Some Explaining to Do

    Truthdig’s editor argues that there remain unanswered questions surrounding the Iran-Contra connections of Robert Gates, whom Bush has tapped as defense secretary.

    Posted on Nov 8, 2006 32 COMMENTS


    Rumsfeld and Hussein

    Robert Scheer: Bush’s November Surprise

    Bush insisted that Saddam Hussein’s trial be held in Iraq so that an international tribunal would never expose America’s history of support for the tyrant—(as in 1982, when President Ronald Reagan sent Donald Rumsfeld, above, to enhance diplomatic relations between Iraq and the U.S.)

    Posted on Nov 7, 2006 13 COMMENTS


    LBJ, Nixon and Bush
    Left and Right: AP / Center: utexas.edu

    Robert Scheer: Turning the Corner Into Madness

    The dire predictions President Bush is making about “cutting and running” from Iraq are almost identical to the horrifically inaccurate ones Presidents Johnson and Nixon made about Vietnam. 

    Posted on Oct 31, 2006 107 COMMENTS


    Robert Scheer: Enron’s Enablers Go Unpunished

    “Kenny Boy” Lay and Jeffrey Skilling would have remained small-time crooks were it not for the energy industry deregulation measures they effectively purchased from Bush I and II.

    Posted on Oct 24, 2006 32 COMMENTS


    Robert Scheer: The Killing Fields of Iraq

    A top medical journal’s report that the killing of innocents in Iraq is 10 times higher than a year ago completely contradicts Bush & Co. contentions that U.S. troops are stabilizing the country.

    Posted on Oct 17, 2006 71 COMMENTS


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