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A Pledge to Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young

John Bruhns | Posted 05.29.2013 | Politics
John Bruhns

It is a sad time in our history when an American combat veteran must resort to such an extreme measure to alleviate the pain and suffering from injuries he received fighting in the name of our country.

Bush Administration Publicly Shamed On Anniversary Of Iraq War

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 03.20.2013 | Politics

On the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, people around the world publicly aired their grievances against members of former President G...

Howard Fineman

Iraq War 10 Years Later: How Did We Let It Happen?

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 03.19.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The conference room on Air Force One looks like any other conference room, except that the chairs at the big oak table slide on tracks a...

Iraq 10 Years Later: Participating in My Generation's Most Controversial War

John Bruhns | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics
John Bruhns

Many of those who served in Iraq have moved on and started their lives anew. I am among that cohort. Despite my new beginning, I'm left with memories of that war. Those memories remind me of how lucky I am to live in America.

Dick Cheney Doc: When Zealotry Met Power

Howard Fineman | Posted 05.04.2013 | TV
Howard Fineman

The capital's dysfunction is leading some thinkers here to conclude that "power" no long exists. In a tribal and digital world, the theory goes, top-down authority is dead. Anyone who believes that needs to see R.J. Cutler's calmly voiced yet disturbing new feature documentary called The World According to Dick Cheney.

Cheney Blasts 'Wrong' Condoleezza Rice

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 03.01.2013 | Politics

Former Vice President Dick Cheney revives a dispute with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in an upcoming documentary, criticizing his former...

Legacy: Who Is Accountable In Iraq?

Peter Van Buren | Posted 02.21.2012 | Politics
Peter Van Buren

The issue of legacy is not so much should we assign blame to a soldier, but to ask: why have we not assigned blame and demanded punishment for the leaders who put those soldiers into the impossible situations they faced?

Cheney Worried About Critical Issue

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.13.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Iraqi leaders have progressed toward a stable society, but he's worried about the failure of Wash...

Animation: Cheney Defends The Iraq War

Scott Bateman | Posted 11.08.2011 | Comedy
Scott Bateman

Dick Cheney's been on a media blitz to publicize his new book, "Bwahahahahaha!" or whatever it's called. Last week, he was on the Today Show with Matt Lauer. Here's actual audio from that video, with notations and animation.

Dick Cheney and the Agony of Deceit

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.07.2011 | Politics
Michael Sigman

Dick Cheney shames the truth-shading of other political memoirs, instead spinning a story that flies in the face of common sense while it contradicts the more plausible accounts of fellow Republicans.

Cheney Conspicuously Avoids Addressing Reality Of Contentious Issue

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 11.05.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dick Cheney's autobiography presents a robust defense of his push for the U.S. invasion of Iraq without critically examining two is...

What Would You Ask Dick Cheney?

The Huffington Post | Mandy Jenkins | Posted 10.29.2011 | Politics

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is making the rounds in the media this week to promote his new memoir, In My Time, which hits bookstores Tuesday. ...

The Big Headline That Wasn't Big Enough

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert J. Elisberg

The Iraq war started because Dick Cheney and the Bush Administration tried to draw a fake link between Iraq and 9/11. And now Dick Cheney says there was "never evidence" linking Iraq to 9/11.

When Will Dick Cheney's Tower of Lies Finally Come Tumbling Down on Him?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Arianna Huffington

As recently as two weeks ago, Cheney was still banging the drum about Saddam's "known ties to Mideast terrorists." His ongoing Forget Everything I Ever Told You Tour is historical revisionism at its most despicable.

The Great Republican Contradiction

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert J. Elisberg

Stuff happens, Dick Cheney callously says. It makes the skin crawl. What cold-hearted, criminal arrogance.

Bush's Final Gift: Gaza

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Eric Margolis

Just when we thought it was impossible for the calamitous George Bush and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America's inte...

2009: Another Year of Living Dangerously

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Eric Margolis

The proud towers of Wall Street have fallen, disgorging packs of thieves and fraudsters. The mighty US suddenly exposed as the proverbial king without clothes. Uncle Sam is bankrupt.

Clint and Cheney: a Tale of Two Dicks

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Arianna Huffington

The VP and Eastwood's character are both gruff, prickly, taciturn, sandpaper-voiced men, given to conservative views, macho posturing, and a narrow view of right and wrong. And they both always seem on the verge of telling people around them to go f**k themselves. Read More Will The Madoff Debacle Finally End The "Who Could Have Known?" Era? Iraq. Fannie Mae. Citigroup. Bernie Madoff. When you look at the elements that were crucial to the creation of each of these debacles, it's amazing how much in common they all have. And not just in how they began but in how they ended: with those responsible being amazed at what happened, because...who could have known? Read More Watch: Arianna Talks New Media and Politics with Ashton Kutcher

Why I'm a Rogue Republican

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Eric Margolis

I've been a lifelong Republican and plan to spend all Eternity as one. But my party abandoned me in the year 2000.

John McCain, War Games And The Draft

Linda Hansen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Linda Hansen

If you promote war, vote for it or stand to make a profit from it, then you'll be happy to do your patriotic duty and send your children off first. Watch: When the children of the powerful and privileged are on the line, the cost of war, they'll tell us, is too damned high.

Dick Cheney Still Looking For Iraq WMDs

Huffington Post | Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Even after all of this time and President Bush's own abandonment of the WMD theme, Vice President Richard Cheney is still convinced that there are hid...

Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Steve Clemons

A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.

Dick Cheney Calls Iraq War A "Successful Endeavour"

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

US Vice-President Dick Cheney declared the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavour" during a visit to Baghdad, on the same day a woman su...

Dick Cheney: Link Between Iraq And Al-Qaida "Pretty Clear"

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Before the Iraq war began, Dick Cheney was among the most prominent messengers of the false claim that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with al Qaeda...

Cheney Understands Iran War Fears "Because Of My Past"

The Swamp | Mark Silva | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledges that it's understandable that people might read planning for a war in Iran into his Middle East trip. Asking...