May 10, 2008
When George W. Bush flew with great fanfare onto the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003 and announced from the flight deck that the war in Iraq was all but over, I'm sure there were sighs...
Donna Edwards | Posted March 27, 2008 | Politics
The situation we're in right now in Iraq is tragic, but we can solve it. Brandon Friedman at VoteVets reports that the last two weeks have been the most violent period in Iraq since September 2007. He wrote of an email from one of his friends in the Green...
Jim Wallis | Posted March 27, 2008 | Politics
Five weeks ago, we began a series of posts on the cost of the war in Iraq. We have focused primarily on the human costs -- the death and suffering of Americans and Iraqis after five years of war. There have been...
Joseph C. Wilson | Posted March 26, 2008 | Politics
The past week marked the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War and the milestone of the 4,000th American soldier killed in that disastrous adventure. Commemorating and underscoring the urgent need for a new policy direction, Senator Clinton delivered a serious and detailed address clearly setting out her vision for and...
Greg Mitchell | Posted March 26, 2008 | Politics
Marking the milestone of 4,000 U.S. dead in Iraq, The New York Times on Tuesday published a gallery of tiny photos of the most recent 1,002 fatalities. But earlier in the front section, on page 4, to draw attention to its interactive exhibit on the Web, the paper published three...
Marc Gunther | Posted March 26, 2008 | Politics
You don't have to be a Latin scholar to know that Pax means peace. So why, with the United States bogged down in an unpopular war that claimed its 4,000th casualty a few days ago, is the Pax World family of mutual funds investing in a defense contractor with thousands...
Laila Al-Arian | Posted March 25, 2008 | Politics
On March 13-16, I covered "Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan," a summit hosted by Iraq Veterans Against the War, in which more than 50 veterans and active-duty service members offered searing testimonies about the atrocities and war crimes they witnessed and committed against Iraqi and Afghan civilians. Their...
Brandon Friedman | Posted March 25, 2008 | Politics
If Dick Cheney wants to get a rise out of the troops in theater, he should just keep talking:
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Vice President Dick Cheney was asked what effect the grim milestone of at least 4,000 U.S. deaths in...
Greg Mitchell | Posted March 25, 2008 | Media
Given the current tragedy in Iraq -- hell, given the past five years -- you would think the many pundits who agitated for an attack on Iraq, largely on false pretenses, would have take the opportunity of the arrival of the fifth anniversary of the war (or the 4,000 dead...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | March 25, 2008 10:28 AM
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | March 25, 2008
New York Times | STEVEN LEE MYERS and THOM SHANKER | March 24, 2008 10:10 PM
Frank Schaeffer | Posted March 24, 2008 | Media
Fox News more than any other single group in America is responsible for bringing us eight disastrous years of Bush, a war based on lies, 4000 American dead, over 30,000 wounded and an economy sliding into the toilet flushed away by a war debt exacerbated by tax cuts. I got...
AP | BEN FELLER | March 24, 2008
Arianna Huffington | Posted March 24, 2008 | Politics
If our polarized country can agree on one thing, it's that the greatest danger facing America over the next decade will not be Islamic extremism and instability in the Middle East, but rather Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. That's just "common knowledge," right?
So it only makes...
Sen. Robert Byrd | Posted March 24, 2008 | Politics
Last week marked the fifth anniversary of the start of our nation's invasion of Iraq. Again we are confronted with a sorrowful reminder of the consequences of that fateful decision by the death of four Americans killed in Baghdad, bringing the total number of American troops who have made the...
Jane Smiley | Posted March 24, 2008 | Politics
Slate is running a series in which former liberal hawks either excuse themselves for, or, in the case of Andrew Sullivan, apologize for, their former support for the invasion of Iraq. Others have weighed in, too -- Anne Marie Slaughter, here on the HuffPo, and a few, so...
ABC News | March 24, 2008 01:49 PM
Tom Andrews | Posted March 24, 2008 | Politics
Today's killing of the 4,000 American soldier in Iraq was the latest grim marker in the Bush administration's disastrous war and occupation in Iraq, coming just days after the tragic passing of the fifth anniversary of the American invasion.
Both occurred as the hollow claims by the Bush administration...
Robert Naiman | Posted March 24, 2008 | Politics
As such things are counted, this past weekend we crossed the threshold of four thousand U.S. deaths in Iraq. This fact, in itself, should spark congressional debate on what the U.S. is doing in Iraq, and how and when we are going to get out.
The Washington/pundit conventional wisdom...
A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be...
She has ruled it out, but a prompt withdrawal from the contest for the Democratic...
Hillary Clinton, who for seven weeks has crawled, kicked and bitten her way back into contention, suffered a blow...
On a day when it appears that the Michigan controversy may be resolved in a way...
Did Rush Limbaugh actually impact the Democratic primary? The loud-mouthed radio...
From "CBS News RAW": While campaigning in Fayetteville, W.Va., Bill Clinton argued with...
With the Democratic nomination now in its endgame, it's time to speculate on...
On Friday, Barack Obama publicly raised the possibility of helping Hillary Clinton pay...
CBS caught Senator Obama on Capitol Hill in a swarm of...
Ben Smith of Politico reported Tuesday night that Hillary Clinton might have made...
As a lawyer might say (OK, I am one), I have no personal knowledge of whether John or...
At the same time that former West Wingers...
Bob Geiger | Posted March 28, 2008 | Politics