Like the Republicans, al Qaeda is in desperate shape. Just as George Bush Jr. insists that US forces must stay in Iraq because the Terrorists

Writes David: "Saw my nephew today, just in from R&R from Iraq for two weeks. Expect US casulties to climb rapidly. In the last two weeks brand-new Russian state-of-the-art RPGs have arrived that can penetrate our best tank's armour (including reactive armour), much less Humvees."

"For the first time in American history, Americans have gone to the polls in wartime and rejected that war. Not only that, but they

Now I can just go back to hating the establishment. Or, maybe I won't even have to bother.

By Lew Rockwell "What do regular Americans care whether we were lied into war or that Iraq suffers under military occupation that is driving the country into the hands of fanatical Islamic theocrats? Well, apparently many voters do care, even those who don't have family members fighting and dying. Many people voted based on what might otherwise seem to be an abstraction. Bush undertook this war with arrogance and claims of god-like power. The result has been catastrophic. And apparently this...

James Bovard's notes on today's post-election massacre Presidential press conference: "None of the White House correspondents asked Bush directly about his false claims regarding the Dems and wiretapping - Bush claimed they were opposed to listening in to terrorists conversations.None of the questions were about Bush

Okay, Rumsfeld is out, Cheney is in his cave, here's what you do: Put the worst secretary of State since Colin Powell on a plane to Tehran. Have her tell them that we will leave Iraq and shut up about their enrichment of uranium to 3.6% for their electricity program as long as they remain subject to the NPT and IAEA safeguards, and promise not to obliterate the minority Sunni Arabs of Iraq when we leave. Since the Ayatollah Khamenei offered everything for nothing in 2003, I think it's a pretty...

Rumsfeld resigns. To be replaced by former DCI Robert Gates. So does that mean Cheney's out too?

Boo! to anyone who won anything. Except Ron Paul, of course. The Austin American State's Man says: U.S. House - District 14 - Texas 287 of 287 Precincts Reporting Paul , Ron (i) GOP 92,100 60.28 Sklar , Shane Dem 60,677 39.72

From 5-7pm Central on 92.7 or 95.9 FM in Austin, Texas or stream it live at KAOS959.com. MP3 here.

On October 10th, Camp Falcon, a US Army base outside of Baghdad, was attacked by Iraqis. A major fire broke out and munitions started going off - including a few fairly spectacular explosions. Video of the event was shown on CNN and has circulated around the internet. Here is one of the better ones. Since then, we have been getting more and more letters at Antiwar.com, asking about widespread rumors that the explosions seen in the video were American nuclear munitions detonating due to the...

Matt Barganier quotes him quoting the American Conservative about the disaster in Iraq... "Faced on Sept. 11, 2001 with a great challenge, President Bush made little effort to understand who had attacked us and why

Idiotic, sniveling, State-loving little bitches. Pathetic. Jonathan Schwarz has their number. How embarrassing this must be for Jim Geraghty's father. Via Matt who says, "perhaps Schwarz should have waited for the follow-up, in which Jim Geraghty denies being an