September 01, 2010 | Posted by Tom Andrews
While President Obama called on the nation last night to “move beyond our differences” on the disastrous US Iraq policy, the Congressional Republican leadership – John Boehner in the House and Mitch McConnell in the Senate- were delivering high-octane speeches attacking the president for opposing the military surge of US forces in 2007 that they claim turned the tide in the Iraq war.
In fact a surge did turn out to be a key to changing direction in the catastrophe that followed the US invasion and military occupation in Iraq. But, it wasn’t the surge of military forces that Boehner, McConnell and their fellow Iraq war apologists talk about, but the surge in anti-war sentiment in both the United States and Iraq. Read More »
August 19, 2010 | Posted by Daniel Pollitt
Watch Tom debate former Bush White House staffer Dan Senor on Petraeus' media blitz to re-sell the Afghan War. Read More »
August 17, 2010 | Posted by Tom Andrews
“That's why our troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended -- because the nation that I'm most interested in building is our own."
That was the commitment President Obama made when he announced the military escalation of American troops in Afghanistan before an audience of cadets at West Point last year. That was then, this is now. The media tour that General David Petraeus embarked on this week demonstrates that a withdrawal is, in fact, fully underway – not of US troops from Afghanistan, but rather, of the president’s assurance that we do not have an open ended military commitment to the Karzai government in Afghanistan. The Petraeus media tour is making it crystal clear - July 2011 is more political gesture than time-frame for the withdrawal of US forces.
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August 10, 2010 | Posted by Hasnain Nazar
Courtesy of Dan Froomkin and Huffington Post we present to you Senator Obama vs President Obama. This video highlights the transformation of Senator Obama from a skeptic of President Bush's military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan to President Obama as a champion of the Afghan War. Read More »
August 06, 2010 | Posted by Hasnain Nazar & Daniel Pollitt
As reported by the Washington Post, President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation into the U.S.-backed Major Crimes Task Force, charged with rooting out corruption in the Afghan government. Karzai ordered the probe after a top adviser, Mohammad Zia Saleh, an official in the office of the national security adviser, was arrested by the Task Force for allegedly agreeing to accept a 10,000 dollar car in return for promising to shut down "the investigation of an influential government official for drug smuggling." Read More »
August 02, 2010 | Posted by Ryan Anderson
Former State Department Official Matt Hoh joins Win Without War's Tom Andrews to discuss the WikiLeaks "War Logs," this week's vote on war funding in Congress and the war in Afghanistan. Read More »
July 27, 2010 | Posted by Hasnain Nazar
Today the House debated and then voted on the emergency war supplemental. Watch Reps. David Obey, Jim McGovern and Barbara Lee speak out against the war in Afghanistan. Read More »
July 27, 2010 | Posted by Tom Andrews
It was July 1 when 162 Members of the House voted for Congressman Jim McGovern’s amendment requiring an exit strategy with a time certain for US combat troops to be withdrawn. The leaked documents underscore why the open ended military commitment to the second most corrupt government on earth, the Karzai government, makes no sense. Under the rules of the House, if these 162 House Members hold their ground today and vote against sending an additional $33 billion for this endless war, the motion to pass the appropriation will be defeated. Read More »
