No War on Iraq - IPS archive

September 1, 2004 -- FPIF Task Force on Terrorism: A Secure America in a Secure World. This new report from Foreign Policy In Focus argues that the open-ended global war on terror is counterproductive, making U.S. citizens more vulnerable to terrorist attacks at home and abroad. It offers an alternative approach that would focus on preventing successful terrorist attacks by improving homeland security, bring terrorists to justice and address terrorism's root causes.

2004 Analysis

December 20, 2004 -- Iraq's Elections Ttalking points by Phyllis Bennis

December 9, 2004 -- U.S. RIGHT-WING RATCHETS UP ATTACKS ON THE UN; UN PANEL CALLS FOR WIDE-RANGING REFORMS, STILL FUDGES ON PREEMPTIVE WAR Talking points by Phyllis Bennis

November 18, 2004 -- Post-Election Disasters Rage Across Washington and the Middle East Talking points by Phyllis Bennis

October 31, 2004 -- ON THE EVE OF THE ELECTIONS Talking points by Phyllis Bennis

October 7, 2004 -- DEBATES, DUELFER, & ALUMINUM TUBES Talking points by Phyllis Bennis

July 19, 2004 -- The "Coalition" Unravels, "Saddam Hussein Lite" Takes Command Talking points by Phyllis Bennis

July 5, 2004 -- Left Behind: The False "Hand-Overs" of Iraq and Saddam Hussein by Phyllis Bennis

June 29, 2004 -- WashingtonPost.com web discussion with Phyllis Bennis about Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War

June 16, 2004 -- How the Media Misreported Iraq with David Corn Washington correspondent for The Nation and author of the bestseller, The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception. This is the latest Defining The Issues program, available to stream or download in mp3 format.

June 10, 2004 -- The Final UN Resolution on Iraq's Interim Government Talking Points by Phyllis Bennis

June 4, 2004 -- Iraq's Interim Government and the UN Resolution Talking Points by Phyllis Bennis

May 24, 2004 -- Bush's Five Steps in a Speech: Five Steps to Lose a War and the United Nations Resolution on the Table. Talking Points by Phyllis Bennis

May 21, 2004 -- Farewell to Iraq: the least worst solution by Marcus Raskin at OpenDemocracy.net. This forum on Iraq also features commentary by George Soros and the Cato Institute's Charles V. Peña

May 17, 2004 -- Torture Reflects Failure of Bush's Iraq Policy by Phyllis Bennis The Abu Ghraib torture scandal is symptomatic of the overall failure of the Bush Administration's Iraq war policy. There is no way to "get past" the current crisis; the only solution is to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.

May 14, 2004 -- Innocents in Iraq? by Norman Birnbaum President Bush and his Democratic opponent are as one in asking the world not to think that the mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq is evidence for a flaw in our nation. It was the work, they declare, of a small number of wrongdoers-who will be severely punished.

May 6, 2004 -- How to Get Out of Iraq: A Forum, presented by The Nation, features IPS's Phyllis Bennis, as well as Noam Chomsky, John Brady Kiesling, Howard Zinn and William R.Polk.

May 5, 2004 -- Talking Points on The Torture Photographs by Phyllis Bennis

April 14, 2004 -- Iraq President Bush on the Defensive and UN Plans for Creating Interim Authority by Phyllis Bennis. President Bush's press conference yesterday offered no indication of a change in strategy despite the escalating violence and the increasingly hard-to-disguise failures of the Bush policies. The Bush administration is clearly on the defensive.

April 12, 2004 -- The Vulnerabilities of the Bush Iraq Policies by Phyllis Bennis. Almost one year from President Bush's announcement of the end of "major combat operations" in Iraq, the U.S. drive towards empire faces new and serious challenges.

January 29, 2004 -- Talking Points: The U.S. Begs for UN Backing in Iraq by Phyllis Bennis