- George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush.
- Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30, 1941), is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate selected by President George W. Bush. Previously, he served as White House Chief of Staff, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, and Secretary of Defense. In the private sector, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services.
- Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. He was executed after being found guilty of war crimes at his trial in 2006. He was a member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism. Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power.
- Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (74 years old) person to have held the position, as well as the only person to have held the position for two non-consecutive terms, and the second longest serving, …
- Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Lee Miller Sheehan (born July 10, 1957) is an Irish American anti-war activist, whose son, Casey Sheehan, was killed during his service in the Iraq War on April 4, 2004, aged 24. She attracted international attention in August 2005 for her extended demonstration at a peace camp outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch garnering her both support and criticism. In May 2007, Sheehan officially ended her involvement as an anti-war activist, …
- Robert Dreyfuss
Robert Dreyfuss is a freelance investigative journalist whose work appears in "The Nation", "Rolling Stone", "Mother Jones", "The American Prospect", and many other publications. His work also appears on line at TomPaine.com. Dreyfuss received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University. After graduating, he became the "Middle East Intelligence Correspondent" for the Executive Intelligence Review, the journal of the Lyndon LaRouche movement.
- Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is an American politician from Connecticut. Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate in 1988, and was elected to his fourth term on November 7, 2006. In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Lieberman was the Democratic candidate for Vice President, running alongside presidential nominee Al Gore, becoming the first Jewish candidate on a major American political party presidential ticket.
- David Petraeus
David Howell Petraeus (born November 7, 1952) is a general in the United States Army and commander of Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I), the four-star post that oversees all U.S. forces in the country. He was confirmed to that position by the Senate in a vote of 81-0 on January 26 2007. He replaced General George Casey who was subsequently confirmed as Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
- Robert Gates
Robert Michael Gates, born September 25 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W. Bush as Director of Central Intelligence. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University and was a member of several corporate boards.
- Joan Walsh
Joan Walsh is an American editor, writer, and blogger. Since February 2005 she has been the editor-in-chief of "Salon.com", a San Francisco-based on-line magazine. She joined "Salon" as its first full-time news editor in 1998, and became managing editor in 2004. Walsh had previously worked for "In These Times" and the "Santa Barbara News and Review". She has written freelance material for a variety of newspapers and magazines, …
- Duncan Hunter
Duncan Lee Hunter (born May 31, 1948) is an American politician who has been a Republican member of the House of Representatives since 1981 from California's 52nd congressional district in northern and eastern San Diego. It was previously numbered the 42nd District from 1981 to 1983 and then the 45th District from 1983 to 1993. Hunter was the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee during the 109th Congress.
- Pat Tillman
Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6 1976 - April 22 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002, along with his brother Kevin Tillman. Tillman was the first professional football player to be killed in combat since the death of Bob Kalsu of the Buffalo Bills, who died in the Vietnam War in 1970. Tillman was posthumously promoted from Specialist to Corporal.
- Jessica Lynch
Jessica Dawn Lynch (born April 26, 1983 in Palestine, West Virginia) is a former Quartermaster Corps Private First Class (PFC) in the United States Army. Lynch became famous after her widely publicized recovery by U.S. special operations forces.
- 50 Cent
Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6 1975) is an American rapper commonly known by his stage name 50 Cent. He rose to fame following the release of his albums "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" and "The Massacre". 50 Cent achieved multi-platinum success with both albums, selling over twenty million records worldwide. Born in South Jamaica, Queens in New York, 50 Cent began drug dealing at the age of twelve during the 1980s' crack epidemic.
- Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with "Monster in Law", …
- Tommy Franks
Tommy Franks, the allied commander, has since admitted this operation was designed to �degrade� Iraqi air defences in the same way as the air attacks that began the 1991 Gulf war.
- Dan Smith
Col. Dan Smith is a retired U.S. Army colonel and author, who writes articles for Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), Counterpunch and other anti-war minded publications. With almost three decades of military experience, Smith writes articles on the current Iraq War.
- Ehren Watada
Ehren Watada is a First Lieutenant (1LT) of the United States Army who in June 2006 publicly refused to deploy to Iraq for his unit's assigned rotation to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Watada said he believed the war to be illegal and that, under the doctrine of command responsibility, it would make him party to war crimes. At the time he refused to deploy, he was assigned to duty with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, …
- John Abizaid
John Philip Abizaid (born April 1, 1951) is a retired General in the United States Army and former Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), overseeing American military operations in a 27-country region, from the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, to South and Central Asia, covering much of the Middle East. CENTCOM oversees 250,000 US troops. Abizaid succeeded General Tommy Franks as Commander, USCENTCOM, on July 7, 2003, …
- Spencer Ackerman
Spencer Ackerman is a blogger and senior correspondent for "The American Prospect". He attended Rutgers University where he was an editor for the Daily Targum student paper. He then became an intern and later an associate editor at "The New Republic" magazine. He initially supported the Iraq War, but became disillusioned and in 2004 started a blog on "The New Republic" website called Iraq'd which chronicled the dilemma of pro-war liberals.
- Jon Soltz
Jon Soltz was a Captain in the Iraq War and is now the head of VoteVets.org. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Soltz served his country with distinction in the Kosovo Campaign as a Tank Platoon Leader between June and December 2000. From May to September 2003, Soltz served as a Captain during Operation Iraqi Freedom, deploying logistics convoys with the 1st Armored Division. In 2005 Captain Soltz was mobilized to train soldiers for combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- Phil Donahue
Phillip John Donahue (born December 21, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American media personality, best known as the creator and star of "The Phil Donahue Show", also known as "Donahue", the first tabloid talk show. The show had a 26-year run on national (U.S.) TV, preceeded by three years of local broadcast in Dayton, Ohio, before ending in 1996. His shows have generally focused on issues that often divide liberals and conservatives in the U.S., …
- Ricardo Sanchez
Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sánchez was a United States Army general who served as the commander of coalition forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004. He was the highest-ranking Hispanic in the United States Army when he retired on 1 November 2006. At the time of his retirement, Lieutenant General Sanchez called his career a casualty of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
- Lynn Woolsey
Lynn C. Woolsey (born November 3, 1937), American politician, has been a progressive Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing (map). The district takes in all of Marin County and most of Sonoma County. She gained attention when she became the first Representative to call for a troop withdrawal from Iraq. She is a prominent member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
- Paul Rieckhoff
Paul Rieckhoff founded and is Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). A non-partisan non-profit founded in 2004 with tens of thousands of members in all 50 US states, IAVA is America’s first and largest Iraq and Afghanistan veterans' group. Honored by "Esquire" as one of "America’s Best and Brightest" in 2004, Rieckhoff has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs.
- Bill Keller
Bill Keller (born January 18 , 1949 ) is executive editor of The New York Times . Bill Keller attended the Roman Catholic Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California . After graduating from Pomona College in 1970 where he began his journalistic career by founding an independent newspaper called The Collage , he was a reporter in Portland with The Oregonian , the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report , and at The Dallas Times Herald .
- Casey Sheehan
Casey Austin Sheehan (May 29, 1979-April 4, 2004) was a Specialist in the United States Army who was killed by enemy action while serving in the Iraq War. He is the son of Patrick Sheehan, a sales representative, and Cindy Sheehan, who subsequently became a prominent anti-war protester.
- Patrick Murphy
Patrick Joseph Murphy (born October 19, 1973) is the Congressman from Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district, an American lawyer, a U.S. Army soldier, and a professor. Patrick Murphy is the first veteran of the Iraq War to serve in Congress, and was awarded the Bronze Star. Murphy was the Democratic candidate in the 2006 election for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district, narrowly defeating Republican incumbent Mike Fitzpatrick, a freshman Republican.
- Paul Hackett
Paul Lewis Hackett III (born March 30, 1962) is a trial lawyer and veteran of the Iraq War who unsuccessfully sought election to the United States Congress from the Second District of Ohio (map) in the August 2, 2005, special election. Hackett, a Democrat, narrowly lost to Republican Jean Schmidt, a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, providing the best showing in the usually solidly Republican district by any Democrat since the 1974 election.
- Jean Schmidt
Jeannette "Jean" Marie Hoffman Schmidt (born November 29, 1951) is a Member of the United States Congress. A Republican, she represents the Second District (map) of Ohio, stretching from eastern Cincinnati to Portsmouth. Schmidt gained national attention two months into her first term for suggesting on the House floor that a fellow Representative, the 38-year Marine Corps veteran Jack Murtha, was a "coward" during a debate about the Iraq War.
- Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson (born 1955) is a newspaper columnist and assistant managing editor for "The Washington Post". His columns are syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group. In his columns he generally espouses left-wing views, and often criticizes President George W. Bush for his perceived domestic- and foreign-policy failures, especially the Iraq War. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. Robinson was born and grew up in Orangeburg, …
- Michael Gordon
Michael R. Gordon is the chief military correspondent for "The New York Times". He and General Bernard E. Trainor have written two books together: "The Generals' War", which covers the 1991 Gulf War, and the bestseller "Cobra II", which covers the Iraq War begun 2003. He wrote most of the coverage of the administration's case for war in 2002. During the first phase of the Iraq war, …
- Michael Fumento
Michael Fumento is an American author, photojournalist and attorney who writes about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, science and health issues. He has travelled to Al Anbar in Western Iraq on three occasions and to Zabul Province in southeastern Afghanistan at his own expense to embed with U.S. troops. He is extremely critical of most journalists reporting from Baghdad.
- Chuck Baldwin
Charles O. "Chuck" Baldwin (born May 3, 1952) is an American political figure, activist within the Constitution Party, and pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. He hosts a weekly radio show. Baldwin was born in La Porte, Indiana, to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Baldwin. Baldwin married the former Connie Kay Cole on June 2, 1973, after a college meeting. They currently have three children and six grandchildren. From 1980-1984 Dr.
- Lynndie England
Lynndie Rana England is a United States Army reservist who served in the 372nd Military Police Company. She was one of several soldiers convicted by the Army courts-martial in connection with the torture and prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad during the occupation of Iraq. England held the rank of specialist while serving in Iraq. Along with other soldiers, she was found guilty of inflicting sexual, physical and psychological abuse on Iraqi prisoners of war.
- Stephen Zunes
Stephen Zunes is Middle East editor for Foreign Policy in Focus ( www.fpif.org ). He serves as a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco and is the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage Press, 2003).
- Eli Pariser
Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980 in Lincolnville, Maine) is Executive Director of MoveOn.org. Pariser's rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a multilateral response to the attacks of September 11th. In less than a month, half a million people had signed the petition and in November of that year, …
- Anthony Arnove
Anthony Arnove is a literary editor, agent and activist. He is a freelance editor, writer, and activist based in Brooklyn. He is on the board of directors of Haymarket Books, and is active in the National Writers Union and International Socialist Organization. Arnove is particularly well-known for his books on the Iraq war and occupation of Iraq. Arnove is the author of the new book Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, …
- Helen Clark
Helen Clark, previously known as Helen Brinton, (born December 23, 1954) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was a Labour Member of Parliament for Peterborough from 1997 until the 2005 general election, when she lost her seat to Conservative candidate Stewart Jackson. Her marriage to Ian Brinton ended in 1997; she subsequently married political journalist Alan Clark and assumed his name. Clark was educated at the University of Bristol, …
- Adam Kokesh
United States Marine Corporal Adam Charles Kokesh (previously Sergeant) is a decorated veteran of the Iraq War and an anti-U.S. occupation of Iraq activist.