Iraq Five Years of War

Helping Injured Iraqi Children: One Man's Quest to Right the Wrongs of War (VIDEO)

Jennifer Utz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Warning: Viewer Discretion is advised Nine year-old Salee was playing hopscotch with friends when US jets fired three missiles on her town of Hasswa,...

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Major Baghdad Hospital Damaged By US Missile, Dozens Injured

McClatchy Newspapers | Shashank Bengali | Posted 05.25.2011

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A major hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City slum was damaged Saturday when an American military strike targeted a militia command center just a few yards ...

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Largest Labor Strike Since Iraq War Shuts Down West Coast Ports

LA Times | Louis Sahagun and Ronald D. White | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thousands of dockworkers at 29 West Coast ports took the day off Thursday, effectively shutting down operations at the busy complexes in what the unio...

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Jason Linkins

$3 Trillion Campaign Reveals The Cost Of Quagmire

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Three trillion dollars is a lot of money. So much that it's hard to get your head around. You shouldn't feel bad about it, after all, John McCain ca...

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Jason Linkins

Letter From A Soldier: Answers You Won't Want To Hear

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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McCain claims that he is a break from the flawed strategy of the Bush administration. But the Iraq miasma is not the result of a flawed strategy. It is the result of a flawed concept to begin with.

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General Hayden Revises History In Iraq

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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We gave this particular moment some special attention on our Sunday Morning Liveblog today, but it deserves some special attention and scrutiny. We'r...

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Jason Linkins

Hagel: 'Arrogance, Incompetence' Fuel Bush's Run To War

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, who will not seek a new term in the Senate, continues to offer some of the most potent criticism of the Iraq War out the...

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Hagel: Bush Administration 'Certainly Misrepresented' Facts On Run-Up To War

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the past year, Senator Chuck Hagel has not been shy about expressing his disillusionment with his own party. Having announced that he'll be fore...

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Militiamen Holding Out in Basra Fighting

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister warned gunmen in the oil port of Basra to surrender their weapons by Friday or face harsher measures, as clashes...

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US, Iraqi Troops Battle Shiite Militia

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's leaders faced their gravest challenge in months Tuesday as Shiite militiamen loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr batt...

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The 3,999th Was Important, Too

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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The media, it has been amply shown, has dropped off in its coverage of the war -- studies prove it, war correspondents lament it -- and we've all noticed it.

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Is "Success" Of Iraq Surge About To Unravel?

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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A cease-fire with Muqtada al Sadr and his loyalists in the Mahd army is showing signs of deterioration. The agreement, which has been critical to the...

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Jason Linkins

Dana Perino, The Gift That Keeps On Giving: A Neverending Surge

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Years after missions were declared to have been accomplished in Iraq, it's still difficult to get a straight answer out of the Bush administration as ...

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Bush Sympathetic As War Toll Hits 4,000

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Marking a grim milestone, a determined President Bush declared Monday the lives of 4,000 U.S. military men and women who have died ...

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Cheney On 4,000 Dead Americans: They Volunteered

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wrapping up a nine-day overseas trip to Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney was asked, in an exclusive interview with ABC News, about the effect on the n...

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Jason Linkins

'Al Qaeda In Iraq': Part Myth, Part Manipulation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The triumph of Al Qaeda in Iraq has less to do with their achievements in the field of terrorism, and more to do with the tautology that the administration has erected to pin the tail of our misfortune on a convenient, scary sounding donkey.

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New Iraq War Plan: High Troop Levels Through 2008

New York Times | STEVEN LEE MYERS and THOM SHANKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Troop levels in Iraq would remain nearly the same through 2008 as at any time during five years of war, under plans presented to President Bush on Mon...

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4000 US Soldiers Killed In Iraq

MSNBC | Posted 05.25.2011

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The death toll for U.S. solders in Iraq has reached 4000: The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a road...

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US Trophy Province Anbar Losing Its Shine

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tensions are simmering again in once bloody Anbar province, Washington's prize good news story for security in Iraq. Along the main road through Anba...

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Karen Kwiatkowski: The Soldier Who Spoke Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the war in Iraq completes its fifth year this week, The Huffington Post is featuring interviews with and essays by those journalists, elected offic...

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Jason Linkins

CNN's King Offer Mixed Bag On Iraq, Calls It A 'Fact Check'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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CNN sent correspondent John King to Iraq to offer the network's viewers some fifth-anniversary perspective on the developments of the Iraq War. Havin...

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Clinton Camp: Obama Opposed The War, But What Has He Done Lately?

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Clinton camp has issued a memo criticizing Obama's work on national security issues at the beginning of this week's 5th anniversary of the Iraq Wa...

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Reporter Goes Looking For Good News In Iraq

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Afew days after arriving in Iraq early this year, I followed Army Gen. David H. Petraeus on a walk through a marketplace on the capital's east side. ...

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Sam Stein

Lincoln Chafee Interview: "Everyone Was Silent" On Iraq

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the war in Iraq completes its fifth year this week, The Huffington Post is featuring interviews with and essays by those journalists, elected offic...

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Jason Linkins

WaPo Editorial On Iraq 'Fantasies' Ignores Certain Realities

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today's Washington Post editorial, commemorating five years of Iraq miasma, levels the charge at Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obam...

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