The Phantom Antihawk The Phantom Antihawk
The "phantom antihawk" is not a new video game or Ben Affleck blockbuster. It's a nickname for George Bush, America's 41st President and father of George W. And, according to El...
Apr 10, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Reckoning in Iraq The Reckoning in Iraq
Emerging from their meeting in Belfast the day before US forces announced Baghdad had fallen, George W.
Apr 10, 2003 / The Editors
Sacrifice Is for Suckers Sacrifice Is for Suckers
In his address to the nation on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, George W.
Apr 10, 2003 / Robert L. Borosage
Unfit to Be King Unfit to Be King
He might have the toughest detail this war has to offer.
Apr 10, 2003 / Geoffrey Gray
Kommissar Kristol Kommissar Kristol
William Kristol's April 7 editorial in The Weekly Standard denouncing critics of the war on Iraq as "anti-American" is startlingly reminiscent of the menacing directives issued...
Apr 10, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Firing of Peter Arnett The Firing of Peter Arnett
On March 19, shortly after Saddam Hussein defied President Bush's deadline to go into exile, Tom Brokaw of NBC broke into Law & Order, airing on the East Coast, to announce...
Apr 10, 2003 / Tom Goldstein
A Pox on America A Pox on America
In December, when hospitals in Atlanta and Richmond announced that they were opting out of the federal smallpox vaccination plan, opinion leaders reacted as if the physicians h...
Apr 10, 2003 / Madeline Drexler
The War Democrats The War Democrats
The Democratic Leadership Council, the lost-inside-the-Beltway group that last fall championed the disastrous Democratic strategy of cozying up to the Bush Administration on mi...
Apr 10, 2003 / John Nichols
Saving Private Lynch Saving Private Lynch
It was a drama too good to miss, made for TV, if not for Hollywood.
Apr 10, 2003 / Annette Fuentes
Yes, War Really Is Hell Yes, War Really Is Hell
The risks of war? There was the risk of being bombed if you had the misfortune to live in a neighborhood where US targeters thought Saddam Hussein might be located.
Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn