Muntazer al-Zaidi, Iraqi Shoe Thrower, Inundated With Offers And Gifts
Next Monday, when the journalist walks out of prison, his 10 raging seconds, which came to define his country's last six miserable years, are set to t...
Next Monday, when the journalist walks out of prison, his 10 raging seconds, which came to define his country's last six miserable years, are set to t...
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Why are we in Iraq? Because we're there. Because the Iraqis need us. Because something terrible would happen if we left precipitously. So we still occupy Iraq and no one even asks why.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley and Jessica Gusman | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
March 20, 2009 is the sixth anniversary of the Iraq War, and thus an appropriate day to take a look back at some of the best HuffPost contributor comm...
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman, Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 03.30.2009 | World
President Obama today announced his plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq by August 2010 and declared that the US has "begun the work of ending thi...
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
In a nutshell, the Pentagon's argument couldn't be simpler or more red-bloodedly American: We have too much stuff there to leave Iraq any time soon.
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
Money, observed the witty British thinker Malcolm Muggeridge, is the homogenized form of power. No more money, no more power. The great imperialist ...
Steve Kettmann | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
The notion that there's any serious doubt over the meaning of the Bush Doctrine is as credible as the notion that there is any serious doubt in the scientific community on the basic reality of global warming.
Steve Young | Posted 08.05.2008 | Media
Does anything else need be said? Steve Young, author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful," blogs at steveyoungonpolitics.com...
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Five years ago, when Bush said "bring 'em on!", he was inviting Iraqis to try to kill American troops. Few things a commander-in-chief could say would be as reprehensible as this comment.
Muckraked | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media
NBC News' Richard Engel, who in April was promoted to chief foreign correspondent, has written a book, released today, about the years he spent report...
The Swamp | Mark Silva | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
President Bush was asked today what he says to critics who see no end in sight in the war in Iraq - is it an open-ended war? And he effectively said i...
Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
President Bush said lots of things about Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the Iraq War. But few of his charges grabbed more attention than an unscripte...
AP | TERENCE HUNT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush says he has no doubts about launching the unpopular war in Iraq despite the "high cost in lives and treasure," argui...
Dan Treul | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
More than thirty OffTheBus members collaborated on the following story. A full byline is below. The so-called "evangelical vote," often cited by med...
Washinton Times | Sara Carter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Iran's leaders are no longer supplying weapons or training to Islamic militants in Iraq, the spokesman for the top U.S. commander in Iraq told The Was...
Politico | John Bresnahan and Martin Kady II | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, despite their pledges to continue pushing to end the war in Iraq, face growing press...
Editor & Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Sig Christenson, a founding member of Military Reporters and Editors who has worked five assignments in Iraq since the war began, reached back some 10...
McClatchy | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Eight months after President Bush made public a plan he hailed as the "New Way Forward" in Iraq, he's announced a new plan, this one called "Return on...
The Guardian | Martin Chulov in Baghdad and Rory McCarthy in Nablus | Posted 11.09.2009 | World