Iraq Five Years Later

Jason Linkins

'Mission Accomplished' Anniversary: NYT Celebrates With Panel Who Largely Got It Wrong

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics


This past Sunday, the New York Times presented a symposium of sorts on the future of the Iraq War, titled "How To See This Mission Accomplished." Hav...

Largest Labor Strike Since Iraq War Shuts Down West Coast Ports

LA Times | Louis Sahagun and Ronald D. White | Posted 05.10.2008 | Politics


Thousands of dockworkers at 29 West Coast ports took the day off Thursday, effectively shutting down operations at the busy complexes in what the unio...

Jason Linkins

Letter From A Soldier: Answers You Won't Want To Hear

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics


McCain claims that he is a break from the flawed strategy of the Bush administration. But the Iraq miasma is not the result of a flawed strategy. It is the result of a flawed concept to begin with.

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General Hayden Revises History In Iraq

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics


We gave this particular moment some special attention on our Sunday Morning Liveblog today, but it deserves some special attention and scrutiny. We'r...

Jason Linkins

Hagel: 'Arrogance, Incompetence' Fuel Bush's Run To War

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics


Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, who will not seek a new term in the Senate, continues to offer some of the most potent criticism of the Iraq War out the...

Jason Linkins

Hagel: Bush Administration 'Certainly Misrepresented' Facts On Run-Up To War

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Over the past year, Senator Chuck Hagel has not been shy about expressing his disillusionment with his own party. Having announced that he'll be fore...

Jason Linkins

Dana Perino, The Gift That Keeps On Giving: A Neverending Surge

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 ...

Jason Linkins

'Al Qaeda In Iraq': Part Myth, Part Manipulation

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.

Der Spiegel: Life In Baghdad Since The Fall Of Saddam

Der Spiegel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The situation in Iraq on the eve of the anniversary of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" has both opponents and supporters of the American military campaign p...

Jason Linkins

WaPo Editorial On Iraq 'Fantasies' Ignores Certain Realities

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Today's Washington Post editorial, commemorating five years of Iraq miasma, levels the charge at Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obam...

Bush's Approval Rating 40 Points Lower Than At Start Of Iraq War

CNN | Paul Steinhauser | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Just 31 percent of Americans approve of how President Bush is handling his job, according to a poll released Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the s...

Richard Engel's Emotional Return To The Palestine Hotel: "This Is Where My Colleagues Were Killed"

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


NBC News has posted a video online by Baghdad correspondent Richard Engel sharing some reflections of the last five years in Iraq on this anniversary of the commencement of the Iraq war.

Jason Linkins

Bush Makes Myths: Claims Iraq As The Locus For An 'Arab Uprising'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Anytime President Bush starts expounding on the Iraq War, you're bound to hear some sort of claim that lands, unsubstantiated, into your brainpan with...

Jason Linkins

Bush Continues To Link Iraq With 9-11

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Five years after the beginning of the Iraq War, some things never change. Among them, our President's continuing effort to sell his Middle East misad...

Sam Stein

An Analyst Looks At Back On Iraq With Sadness and Scorn

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


As the war in Iraq completes its fifth year this week, The Huffington Post is featuring interviews with and essays by those journalists, elected offic...

Bush Admin's Iraq War Cost Estimates Not Even Close

New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


At the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order a...

Max Follmer

Karen Kwiatkowski: The Soldier Who Spoke Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


As the war in Iraq completes its fifth year this week, The Huffington Post is featuring interviews with and essays by those journalists, elected offic...

Cheney Still Linking Iraq War To 9/11 Attacks

McClatchy | Hannah Allam and Laith Hammoudi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Amid tears and wails, mourners in the southern city of Najaf on Tuesday began burying victims from a suicide bombing that killed nearly 50 worshipers ...

Poll: Majority Of Americans Say War Not Worth It

CBS News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


One the eve of the five-year anniversary of the start of the war with Iraq, Americans continue to think the results of the war have not been worth the...

Bush: Iraq War Worth It

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...

Jason Linkins

Dana Rohrabacher Offers Iraqi Refugees Some False Hope

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


After five years of war in Iraq, plenty of Iraqis are still trying to make a go of it: enjoying the long government recesses and the vacations from re...

Jason Linkins

CNN's King Offer Mixed Bag On Iraq, Calls It A 'Fact Check'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


CNN sent correspondent John King to Iraq to offer the network's viewers some fifth-anniversary perspective on the developments of the Iraq War. Havin...

Jason Linkins

Engel On Iraq: Five Years On, Stuck At A Turning Point

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Anyone who has followed the Iraq war long enough, and closely enough, to know what a "Friedman Unit" is, knows the drill by now: there is no timetable...

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Great News: Iraqi Chicken Farming 'Moving Toward Pre-War Levels'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


GREAT NEWS EVERYBODY. The five-year-old Iraq war is not a "miserable failure" as all the liberal blogs would have you believe! Via Spencer Ackerman,...

Jason Linkins

Iraq After Five Years: The Oil Factor

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In this morning's Washington Post, Steven Mufson takes up the issue of oil and the Iraq war. Three paragraphs in, he crafts a remarkable sentence: W...