Put on your fear flack jackets because the right wing attacks are a-coming.

So if you haven't heard yet - it's official. So-called 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees are to be tried in New York City. All are facing prosecution in federal court...

Rosanne Cash appeared on the Colbert Report last night to go toe-to-toe with Stephen Colbert on the use of music to torture at Guantanamo, and Rosanne made it clear: using music as torture is wrong and there's no gray area. The upshot? Colbert signed our campaign letter agreeing with General...

As the saying goes, you can tell a lot about people by the company that they keep.

Yesterday's announcement by nationally acclaimed musicians that they were signing onto our National Campaign to Close Guantanamo Bay generated a harsh response from Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol's new right-wing organization "Keep...

Congress Should Hold Hearings on Alternatives to Major Escalation

Embedded in General Stanley McChrystal's classified assessment of the war in Afghanistan is his conclusion that a successful counterinsurgency strategy will require 500,000 troops over five years.

This bombshell was dropped by NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC's...

Today marks a new a national holiday in Iraq, the "Day of National Sovereignty." Iraqis are celebrating with music and dancing as U.S. combat forces continue their pull-out of Iraqi cities and turn security responsibility over the Iraqi government.

Don't be surprised, however, if the spike in violence that came...

For those concerned the U.S. is becoming mired in a military quagmire in Afghanistan there was good news and bad news on the House floor this afternoon:

The good news is that a majority of House Democrats just voted (131-114) to support the McGovern amendment to the...

Just now, the House of Representatives finished debate on Congressman McGovern's amendment to the Defense Authorization bill calling for an exit strategy for the war in Afghanistan. With voting on all amendments scheduled for later today, Congressman McGovern and the 80% of Afghans who oppose an escalation of foreign troops...

The more things change at the polls, the more they apparently stay the same in Congress. The Defense bill that the House Armed Services Committee is presenting today on the House floor is the first opportunity for this Democratic Congress to turn the page on the Bush administration's disastrous approach...

This week Congress is set to authorize $550 billion in defense spending and, with it, an additional $130 billion to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite a Democratic President and a Democratic majority in Congress, the military industrial complex is once again running up the score: the House...

Today, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on yet another supplemental funding bill , this time providing nearly $80 billion to continue waging the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (the total bill is now at $106 billion). And, just like they have done repeatedly in years past, progressive...

How is it that, after winning the White House and strong Congressional majorities in 2008, Democrats are still playing defense when it comes to national security? How is it that those same politicians who were handed a mandate for change in November are, just a few months later, losing the...

Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA) is bothered by what's missing in the Supplemental Appropriation for Iraq and Afghanistan: an exit.

His modest proposal to fill that gap? Include a provision that requires the administration to develop an exit strategy for its military escalation in Afghanistan and report...

There is good news from the House Appropriations Committee today: Members voted in Congressman Sam Farr's (D-CA) amendment to the supplemental funding bill for Iraq and Afghanistan. This amendment takes two important steps to push back against the disconcerting signs of mission creep in Iraq:

1) It puts Congress on...

President Obama said it best when he talked about U.S. policy in Afghanistan on the CBS news program 60 Minutes last month: "There's got to be an exit strategy".

Well, there isn't one. There is an escalation of 21,000 US forces and there is a wartime spending bill requesting...

Maybe it's a generational thing, but as someone who was growing up as LBJ's war was tearing his administration down, I had a pit in my stomach as I watched President Obama announce his "Af-Pak" policy as Secretaries Clinton and Gates watched approvingly at his side.

I can't shake this...

Yesterday's announcement by the White House that the president was ordering 17,000 more US troops into Afghanistan was particularly troubling to many of us who - unlike Mr. Limbaugh and his followers on Capitol Hill - actually want President Obama to succeed.

As a candidate, President Obama offered -...

Those who supported the Bush invasion and military occupation of Iraq are back at it, warning that President Obama could "imperil" Iraq if he keeps his campaign promise to remove US combat forces within 16 months.

Outgoing Iraqi Ambassador Ryan Crocker told reporters last week that "the greatest error the...

by Tom Andrews and Lt. Gen. Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.)

The media obsession over who's in and who's out of consideration for the Obama Cabinet brings the admonition on the famous "War Room" wall of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign to mind: "It's the...

Recently, Al From, founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, used a front page New York Times story to warn Senator Obama and other Democratic leaders that, "the antiwar people cannot define the Democratic Party."

Al From is wrong, again.

For years, the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) has been...

Yesterday, I sat down with Brigadier General John Johns (ret.) to discuss whether or not the United States should engage nations like Iran diplomatically or whether, as Bush and McCain have asserted, that's tantamount to appeasement. In analyzing McCain's recent criticism of Senator Obama's willingness to engage Iran diplomatically, General...