war Archives • Hightower Lowdown

Military excess

April 1, 2020

Breaking news: “Trump says Pentagon Budget Too Big.” Follow-up report: “Pentagon Agrees.” This unexpected budgetary breakthrough comes because Donald The... Read more...

US global sprawl: 177 nations wide

April 1, 2020

“Far-flung” doesn’t describe America’s war reach. Our military personnel, technology, and taxpayers’ money are in so many places that the... Read more...

Trump blasts into a new frontier … for war

April 1, 2020

Our fearless "leader," who cravenly got his rich daddy to help him dodge actual war during the Vietnam era, is now up on his high horse--in comic Napoleonic pose-- demanding that the Pentagon, Congress, and we taxpayers set up another military bureaucracy for sending future youngsters to war: Space Force. Read more...

Trump’s plan to flee Afghanistan

April 1, 2020

It’s over. Dealmaker Donald says he’s ended America’s long nightmare in Afghanistan, finally halting 18-plus years of grinding war–the longest... Read more...

And how’s that war on poppies going?

November 1, 2014

And lest we get completely distracted by Iraq War III, here’s some breaking news from the frontlines of America’s longest-running... Read more...

Political cartoon criticizing politicians for sending soldiers into Iraq

Egged on by the Hawks of Doom, Obama sinks America into a misguided war with the Islamic State

November 1, 2014

Call me a starry-eyed idealist, but it seems to me that if you’re going to send Americans to war, you... Read more...

Surging in Afghanistan

October 1, 2010

Surging in Afghanistan The surge is on in Afghanistan! Unfortunately, what appears to be most effective is not the 30,000... Read more...

In Iraq, Obama says it’s over but it’s not; In Afghanistan, who wants to die for Karzai?

October 1, 2010

At long last, it’s over. In the pre-dawn hours of August 18–seven years, two months, and 18 days after George W... Read more...

The four biggest reasons for escalating war in Afghanistan–and why they’re bogus

October 1, 2009

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke is America’s “Man in the Stans”–Afghanistan and Pakistan, that is. Handpicked by President Obama to be special representative... Read more...

Team Obama’s plan for Afghanistan is a disaster in search of a strategy

February 1, 2009

Sorry to interrupt the Obama celebration even before the man gets settled into the Oval Office, but–what the hell is he... Read more...

What 8 years of BushCheney have done to the world

May 1, 2008

Wow, has it really been five years since “Mission Accomplished?” It seems like only yesterday that our Glorious Leader was strutting... Read more...

America to D.C. — Democrats included: We’re mad as hell and you’re not listening!

December 1, 2007

IN A SEASON THAT SHOULD BE CONVIVIAL AND COMFORTING — filled with family, friends, fun, spiritualism, good food, song, and high... Read more...

BushCheney really is planning to attack Iran!

November 1, 2007

LOOK OUT–HERE THEY COME AGAIN! Bush & Buckshot are riding their little stick horses, waving the bloody flag of 9/11, demonizing... Read more...

Where Bush’s arrogance has taken us

August 1, 2007

DURING HIS GUBERNATORIAL DAYS IN TEXAS, George W let slip a one-sentence thought that unintentionally gave us a peek into... Read more...

Yet the war goes on…

May 1, 2007

■ 3,300 American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead ■ Rumsfeld said the Iraq attack would cost... Read more...

Repubs have a rock on their back, Dems meekly mumble

October 1, 2006

AS YOU READ THIS ISSUE OF THE LOWDOWN, I’m out on the political trail, rambling back and forth across America in... Read more...

The Bushites’ betrayal of our troops and vets

February 1, 2004

If hypocrisy were a drug, Washington would be the crack capital of the world. Congressional and White House leaders these... Read more...

war

Search here:

I’m making moves!