What Iraq Victory?
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 21st, 2008 at 2:33 pmWhat an odd day to celebrate victory in Iraq as Dana Perino is doing. She said “that the conditions are such now that we are…
Posts Tagged ‘Iraq war’
Assigning Blame
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 20th, 2008 at 2:18 pmOn the debate over which faction is to blame for the GOP’s current electoral woes (intensified somewhat by Kathleen Parker’s recent, kind of inflammatory, column),…
Thoughts on the Brain Stem Controlling Fred Kagan and His Buddies
By Jesse Singal - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmVia Spencer Ackerman, Fred Kagan had a pretty remarkable op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that I had missed until now. Check out Spencer’s post,…
Why Couldn’t They Spend $15 Million Turning Them Into Food?
By L. Russell Allen - Oct 30th, 2008 at 11:49 amDue only to circumstance, I caught one segment on Wednesday’s edition of CBS’s The Early Show. How lucky for me that this one segment was…
Misleading Army Recruits
By Kay Steiger - Oct 7th, 2008 at 3:35 pmToday over at Campus Progress, we have an article originally published in one of our awesome student publications, UCLA’s Al-Talib. Al-Talib interviewed Iraq war veteran…
Wingnut: Bush Died (Politically) for His Advisers’ Sins
By Jesse Singal - Sep 9th, 2008 at 5:37 pmImagine a world in which George W. Bush, his cabinet, and his political appointees had little or no agency. A world in which, despite their…
Soldier Suicides Up Again
By Rob Anderson - Sep 5th, 2008 at 10:25 amAccording to an Army report released this week, the rate of soldier suicides this year is on course to break last year’s record:
So far…
The Effect of the 1960s
By Kay Steiger - Sep 2nd, 2008 at 6:16 pmToday at the Minnesota state capitol, people have gathered for concerts, yoga, and registering to vote. The Ripple Effect, which could better be described as…
Politicizing Iraq 2.0: Beta Release Coming as Early as 2011
By Jesse Singal - Aug 25th, 2008 at 1:28 pmFrom the AP:
Iraq and the United States have agreed on a date for the departure of American combat troops, as part of a broader…
One Giant Step Closer to U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq
By Matt Zeitlin - Aug 21st, 2008 at 11:31 amSo finally, bigger news than the age of China’s Olympic gymnasts or Evan Bayh’s wife getting her hair done. The Wall Street Journal reports that…
Iraq War Asylum-Seekers: Refugees or Deserters?
By Emily Rutherford - Aug 21st, 2008 at 9:15 amI’m blogging at present from southwestern British Columbia, Canada, the home of many Vietnam War draft-dodgers who gained refugee status north of the border. It…
Is Blackwater Going Domestic?
By Masoud Shafaee - Aug 12th, 2008 at 4:49 pmThe DEA’s raid of a medicinal marijuana cooperative in California last week at first seemed like nothing out of the ordinary. Ever since Californians passed…
War or Car
By Matt Zeitlin - Aug 7th, 2008 at 2:07 pmErstwhile liberal blogger Neil Sinhababu has a fantastic new blog: War or Car. Every post is a simple explanation of what $3 trillion (the estimated…
It Gets Worse
By Matt Zeitlin - Aug 6th, 2008 at 9:15 amOver at the Huffington Post, Ron Suskind has a bit more explanation about his bombshell revelation:
The Iraq Intelligence Chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush — a…
