At All Costs, We Must Avoid a ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan
America’s Iraq adventure led it into a moral vacuum. Will the error be repeated in the renewed US Afghan campaign?
America’s Iraq adventure led it into a moral vacuum. Will the error be repeated in the renewed US Afghan campaign?
Palin has repeated the long discredited claim that the invasion of Iraq was a necessary response to the September 11th attacks.
Iraqi Blogger Raed Jarrar: The U.S./Iraq agreement legitimizes long term bases and calls for an indefinite number of U.S. troops to remain in Iraq.
Iraqi Blogger Raed Jarrar: The U.S./Iraq agreement legitimizes long term bases and calls for an indefinite number of U.S. troops to remain in Iraq.
If spending continues at the current rate, the U.S. will have spent 100 billion dollars on military contractors in Iraq by the end of the year.
With no reply from Obama to their letter asking him to endorse their goals, IVAW marched to the Pepsi Center to demand that their voices be heard.
With no reply from Obama to their letter asking him to endorse their goals, IVAW marched to the Pepsi Center to demand that their voices be heard.
Mounting NATO bombing raids and widespread detentions of Afghans are rapidly turning the country into the mirror image of Iraq.
In his demands for a U.S. troop withdrawal, the Iraqi PM is hardly the tough negotiator the media makes him out to be.
Bush’s supporters see the global war on terrorism as a “clash of civilizations” — yet the civilization we are destroying in Iraq is part of our own.
“Iraq has turned into something like a no man’s land,” one refugee says. “It no longer belongs to its people.”
Long, an Iraq War resister deported from Canada last month, was sentenced to 15 months of prison and dishonorable discharge.
Nothing seems to keep the Neocons from losing respectability. Here are three contenders for the dumbest Neocon predictions post-Iraq.
Nothing seems to keep the Neocons from losing respectability. Here are three contenders for the dumbest Neocon predictions post-Iraq.
Biden doesn’t have clean hands when it comes to Iraq, but he’s been a leader in re-establishing the rule-of-law in Bush’s terror war.
Biden doesn’t have clean hands when it comes to Iraq, but he’s been a leader in re-establishing the rule-of-law in Bush’s terror war.
A debate over McCain’s claims of “victory in Iraq” is one Obama can win if he hits hard.
Like Iraq, Vietnam was not a noble cause. It’s time we stopped letting politicians and the press perpetuate the McCain War Hero myth.
Soldiers also support Ron Paul over John McCain, suggesting troops want to get out of Iraq sooner than later.
“If you don’t have money to pay bribes, you can’t get a job,” says one mechanical engineer. “I’d drive a garbage truck; I’d do anything,”
“If you don’t have money to pay bribes, you can’t get a job,” says one mechanical engineer. “I’d drive a garbage truck; I’d do anything,”
“If you don’t have money to pay bribes, you can’t get a job,” says one mechanical engineer. “I’d drive a garbage truck; I’d do anything,”
Among the U.S.’s most vociferous criticisms of Saddam’s regime was its practice of inhumane, summary arrests. Now it is guilty of the same.
Indictments for the killing of 17 Iraqis would likely be sought under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, which would be unprecedented.
Iraqi and American officials are reportedly close to reaching an agreement on U.S. forces — but there are some contradictions in their statements.
The U.S. has refused to provide any information about the prisoners or abide by an amnesty law issued by the Iraqi government.
As the U.S keeps accusing Iran of arming Shiite militias, Iraqi officials are ignoring its claims in favor of diplomacy with neighboring governments.
The Pentagonization of the United States shows no sign of slowing down.
With temperatures sky-high and drought on its way, Iraqis in need of electricity are looking to Iran for relief.
1000 U.S. troops began a military training exercise in Georgia on July 15 against a backdrop of growing friction between Georgia and neighboring Russia.