"We can win without destruction"

"We can win without destruction. I am an optimist, because I believe that I'm right. I'm at peace with myself." What Bush told Aznar in the run-up to the Iraq war. Read the full transcript here.

"I lost my son to a conflict I oppose."

An anti-war father condemns the trivialised state of US politics.

Iraq - is this the truth?

" The belief that the Iraq War will end once the Bush administration leaves office, and that American soldiers will return home, is an illusion and a mirage, a concoction of wishful thinking that has no basis in reality."

A sombre analysis of what the Iraq war is really about here.

Blood Money

Nothing new here - but mostly as relevant as when it was written four years ago.