Burying Iraq, Again
Our country isn't unique in making war needlessly, but we may be unique in our insouciance. Attention really should be paid. After all, destroying another country is a big deal.
Our country isn't unique in making war needlessly, but we may be unique in our insouciance. Attention really should be paid. After all, destroying another country is a big deal.
Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.29.2012
The figure for "wounded" constantly cited by politicians and the media does not come close to reflecting the real cost to the servicemembers who went to fight and will never be the same again. We owe it to them to make a full accounting of their sacrifice -- and then never forget it.
Dorian de Wind | Posted 02.18.2012
While the president may be technically correct when he says, "Early this morning, the last of our troops left Iraq," we will all hold our breath until the last of our troops really leaves Iraq.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 11.01.2011
It's a tale of two wars: in Iraq, August became the first month to pass without a single American military casualty, while in Afghanistan, Americans e...
Ed Koch | Posted 08.27.2011
One June 24, 2011, President Barack Obama told our nation of his plans for withdrawing U.S. military forces from Afghanistan. He told us, "We will be...
AP | ANNE GEARAN and ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Military documents laid bare in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previ...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — A new U.S. military tally puts the death toll of Iraqi civilians and security forces in the bloodiest years of the war thousands below...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
John Boehner released a gloating Iraq war video in advance of President Obama's Oval Office address on the drawdown of combat troops in Iraq. The yo...
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D. | Posted 05.25.2011
Another, different "hurt locker" haunts these wars: it is the veteran hurt locker of hidden casualties.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — December was the first month since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq nearly seven years ago in which no U.S. forces died in combat in the ...
AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Kurdish lawmakers demanded the government step up security in northern Iraq after a suicide truck bomb flattened a neighborhood in a s...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD (Reuters) The number of civilians recorded killed in violence in Iraq shot up to 393 in August, its highest level since April, after a spate ...
Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011
War is an abomination. It's a last resort. It's a thing you do when it's the only thing to do.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed in a grenade attack in northern Iraq. That raises the number of American t...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier Wednesday in Baghdad, making May the deadliest month for the American military since September. ...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Bombers struck in Baghdad and a northern city Thursday, killing three American soldiers and nearly two dozen Iraqis in a new spasm of ...
Myriam Miedzian | Posted 05.25.2011
Like you, the church seems much more concerned with the survival of fetuses and "possible fetuses" than with human beings.
Vincent Bugliosi | Posted 05.25.2011
To discuss anything less than the death penalty for someone responsible for over 100,000 deaths would on its face seem ludicrous. But we are dealing with the president of the United States here.
Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011
March 20 marks the sixth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Over the course of the war, at least 4,259 members of the U.S. military and tens of...
Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
I have not given up my desire for NBC, CBS, ABC, or Fox to present a documentary about the Bush transgressions during his eight triumphant year Presidency.
William E. Connolly | Posted 05.25.2011
It is a pity that more American journalists have not appreciated the heroism of Muntadir al-Zaidi, the way he spoke for us as well as for them when he threw his shoes at Bush.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
Cheryl Harris has been instrumental in getting Congress, and the Pentagon, to probe the issue of noncombat deaths -- and she finally testified before Congress two weeks ago.
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Army Secretary Pete Geren has asked his staff for an internal review to examine the Army's firing last month of Gina Gray, the former public affairs d...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
As some may know, I have followed here, for months, the saga of my friend Cheryl Harris, whose son, Ryan Maseth, was electrocuted and died in Iraq se...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011
What the GAO report makes clear, above all else, is that contrary to what the mainstream media and the GOP would have you believe, the surge has not worked. It's time for the U.S. military to go home.
Edward Wasserman | Posted 03.04.2012