Petraeus says The Surge is so successful that US troops must remain in Iraq indefinitely. Combat deaths now near the numbers the Confederate Army lost at Gettysburg. Is Petraeus our Gen. Lee?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Soft-spoken Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) may have been the last questioner of this morning's hearings on Iraq, but he ended up being a highlight of the he...
The Huffington Post | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
***LAST UPDATED 4/9 11:44am*** ***Click Here For Updates On The Iraq Hearings*** --- General David Petraeus' Testimony Before House Members, Part 1...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
If President Bush's Iraq Wwar were a fine wine, it would have no more fawning a sommelier than Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman. Lieberman was in ty...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
***LAST UPDATED 4/9 1:17pm*** Click Here For Videos Of The Hearings --- Petraeus Won't Say He'd Advise New President On Withdrawal: Spencer Ackerman...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
This morning on Today, Barack Obama offered a vigorous defense of his troop withdrawal proposal, as well as a critique of the administration's Iraq Wa...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. commander in Iraq told Congress Tuesday that hard-won gains in the war zone are too fragile to promise any troop pullo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
On one level, it is fortunate that the Wall Street Journal, a day before General David Petraeus arrives on Capitol Hill to re-engage his attempts to s...
The Huffington Post | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
McCain Wants To Avoid Looking Like "Eager Cheerleader": The New York Times notes that John McCain "risks looking like an eager cheerleader if he heaps...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 04.15.2008 | Media
The television networks have spent the last few weeks in pursuit of an interview with Gen. David H. Petraeus, the United States commander in Iraq, ahe...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics
Today on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace and Bill Kristol had themselves a tidy little conversation on an Iraq War. I say "an" Iraq War, because whate...
Washington Post | Michael Abramowitz | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
For months, a debate raged at the top levels of the Bush administration over how quickly to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. But the discussi...
Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
It's time for what's become a semiannual ritual: General David Petraeus comes to Capitol Hill. Last September, the top military commander in Iraq test...
CBS News | Posted 04.04.2008 | Home
Faced with the demands of fighting a two-front war, the Joint Chiefs warned President Bush Wednesday that more U.S. troops may soon be needed in Afgha...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
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 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
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.
LA Times | Julian Barnes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
By many important measures, the U.S. military has reason to feel better about Iraq. Violence has declined, casualties are down, the president is touti...
NY Times | Patrick Healy | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
As critical as she is about the Bush administration's conduct of the Iraq war, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a relatively rare shout-out to the ...
Washington Post | Cameron Barr | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
With a Senate appearance looming to explain the success of President Bush's surge in Iraq, Gen. David Petreaus has offered his starkest commentary yet...
Thinkprogress.org | Amanda | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
In the past few months, conservatives such as Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) have been quick to declare victory in Iraq. In Novembe...
Financial Times | Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Pentagon is considering General David H. Petraeus for the top NATO command later this year, a move that would give the general, the top American c...
New York Times | Michael Gordon and Eric Schmitt | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The Pentagon is considering Gen. David H. Petraeus for the top NATO command later this year, a move that would give the general, the top American comm...
Crooks and Liars | John Amato | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
McCain is running to be the Commander in Chief, but doesn't actually want to be the Commander in Chief. As for pulling out of Iraq, McCain said t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In New York Times we learn that the press and the Pentagon are back in love with one another. Such good news!
McClatchy Newspapers | Nancy A. Youssef | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Ahmad Chalabi, the controversial, ubiquitous Iraqi politician and one-time Bush administration favorite, has re-emerged as a central figure in the lat...
Chip Collis | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home