Mistakenly, many Americans still believe President Bush's war on Iraq is justified because Congress supported it and funds it.
Yet, as international legal authority Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois points out, President Bush got congressional backing by lying that Hussein had W.M.D. and that Hussein was connected to 9/11. That's fraud, probably the bloodiest, costliest lie in White House history.
Congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich drew applause on a recent campaign stop in New Mexico by suggesting that if President Bush isn't impeached by Congress, his successor to the White House should "hand over Bush and his administration to law enforcement officials."
This week, retired General Ricardo Sanchez addressed the Senate. And holding true to form, he became yet another Administration official to wait until they retired to tell the truth about the war.
Iraq war veteran Mike Sanger returned several medals Friday to the office of Rep. Dennis Moore; it was a protest, he said, of the U.S. presence in Iraq. Sanger is a member of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. (Oct. 12, 2007 - Video by Dave Helling)
The international outcry over the recent Blackwater shootings forced the world to closely examine and appreciate the complex reality of the United States government's overdependence on private military contractors operating in Iraq. The foremost expert and most cited authority on the subject is Peter Warren Singer, a senior fellow at the prestigious Brookings Institute, co-founder of "The U.S. Policy towards the Islamic World" Program, and author of the seminal work on private military contractors, "Corporate Warriors." This interview, his most recent, examines the most current repercussions caused by the Blackwater scandal and private military firms within an overall context of The Iraq War, U.S. Foreign policy in the Middle East, and America's public relations with the Muslim world.
The evidence shows: no witnesses saw anyone firing but the Blackwater guards, the only shell casings on the scene came from Blackwater guns, and the "disabled" vehicle drove away from the scene under its own power.
Under new rules proposed by the Transport Security Administration (TSA) (pdf), all airline passengers would need advance permission before flying into, through, or over the United States regardless of citizenship or the airline's national origin.
While the Bush White House promotes the possibility of armed conflict with Iran, a tantalizing passage in Wesley Clark's new memoir suggests that another war is part of a long-planned Department of Defense strategy that anticipated "regime change" by force in no fewer than seven Mideast states.
New film "Cheney's Law" examines the legal strategy adopted by the Office of the Vice President to expand the executive branch's war time powers. "Cheney's Law" airs Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).
He was the CIA's expert on Pakistan's nuclear secrets, but Rich Barlow was thrown out and disgraced when he blew the whistle on a US cover-up. Now he's to have his day in court.
It was bad enough that Desmond Tutu was prevented from leading a fact finding mission to Beit Hanoun last year after the Israeli massacre... but now even Israeli journalists are barred from entering the Gaza Strip. Just what is Israel trying to hide?
"It is true that Al Gore has done a lot of talking about global warming," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority. "But President Bush has actually helped create global warming."