Iraq Five Years Later

Stop Gotcha Politics on Iraq

Anne-Marie Slaughter | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home

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Anne-Marie Slaughter

The debate about Iraq is still far too much about who was right and who was wrong on the initial invasion and far too little about how to get out.

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Jason Linkins

WaPo Editorial On Iraq 'Fantasies' Ignores Certain Realities

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home

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

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

CNN | Paul Steinhauser | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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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...

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

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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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.

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Five Years and Counting: Ten Unpleasant Truths About the War in Iraq

Stephen M. Walt | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Stephen M. Walt

A smarter occupation would not have produced significantly better results. The Bush administration failed to plan the post-war occupation and compounded that error with numerous post-invasion blunders.

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Iraq War "Worth It"?: Not a Single Volunteer from the Bush Family, a Republican Member of Congress, or Administration

Paul Abrams | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Paul Abrams

The Iraq War would never have been launched if the military-age Republican members of Congress would have been expected to volunteer, or that their families would have been expected to go.

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Five Years and Counting: A Call to Pundits and Politicians to Deepen the Conversation

Sara K. Gould | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Sara K. Gould

We must elevate our thinking to a level beyond fear and its necessary corollaries -- racism, misogyny and economic injustice -- to a place where strategy is not owned by the military alone.

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Speak Up, Artists Protest the War

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Iraq: An Unhappy Anniversary

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Carlotta Cooper

According to a CNN poll 71 percent of Americans now think that our spending in Iraq is partly responsible for the economic troubles in the United States. Only 32 percent now support the war. What took them so long?

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The Iraq War: What Might Have Been

Rep. Jim McDermott | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Rep. Jim McDermott

As we mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, the most troubling fact, in a long and tragic list of troubling facts, is that we already know there will be a sixth anniversary.

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On the Fifth Anniversary, What Could We Cautiously Say About the Iraqi Death Toll?

Robert Naiman | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Robert Naiman

The exact death toll will never be known. But as of today, a responsible, cautious, conservative thing to say is that between 300,000 and 1.2 million Iraqis have died.

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Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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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...

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Bush's Iraq Strategery: Blame The Troops

Bob Cesca | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Bob Cesca

President Bush and all of his apologists have scapegoated or are preemptively scapegoating the troops and the "commanders on the ground."

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Five Years of the War in Iraq: Where's the Media Coverage?

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Paul Rieckhoff

It may be easier to endlessly replay the latest gaffe from a candidate than to take your camera outside the Green Zone. But news of the ongoing wars shouldn't fall by the wayside.

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Dateline Iraq -- Five Years Later

Abi Wright | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Abi Wright

Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, the Committee to Protect Journalists interviewed three foreign correspondents about their experiences covering the war for a video special report, Dateline Iraq.

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Jason Linkins

Bush Continues To Link Iraq With 9-11

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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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...

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Happy Anniversary

Michael Goldfarb | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Michael Goldfarb

Five years ago tonight I was desperately running around Erbil, Iraq, looking for a translator. The war was due to start any minute.

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Sam Stein

An Analyst Looks At Back On Iraq With Sadness and Scorn

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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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...

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Reading The Pictures: NYT Playing Fast And Noose With Iraq Anniversary

Michael Shaw | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Michael Shaw

2008-03-19-shaw_iraq_five.jpgThe NYT seems to have suffered a neocon-inspired fugue state in its commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the Iraqi invasion.

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The Oracle of the Green Zone

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Aside from Bush, Cheney, Condi and the Congressional amen choir visiting Baghdad, the now largely disbanded "Coalition of the Willing" will be marking the day with a lot of mourning and soul searching.

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Bush Admin's Iraq War Cost Estimates Not Even Close

New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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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...

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Believe It or Not -- 5 Years Ago Many Top Newspapers Opposed the War

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.18.2008 | Home

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Greg Mitchell

Precisely five years ago, at least one-third of the top newspapers in this country came out against President Bush taking us to war at that time.

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By Damaging Our Partnerships, We Damage Our Security

Sen. Russ Feingold | Posted 03.18.2008 | Home

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Sen. Russ Feingold

Through our continued presence in Iraq, we are compromising our key security partnerships and joint security initiatives in the places where they matter the most.

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Max Follmer

Karen Kwiatkowski: The Soldier Who Spoke Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.18.2008 | Home

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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...

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Cheney Still Linking Iraq War To 9/11 Attacks

McClatchy | Hannah Allam and Laith Hammoudi | Posted 03.18.2008 | Home

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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 ...

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