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...
AP | TERENCE HUNT | Posted 03.18.2008 | 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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.18.2008 | 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...
Ken Bacon | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
Governments in Washington and London aren't paying much attention to Iraqi displacement, but neither Iraq nor the region will be stable until Iraqis feel that it is safe to go home.
Tom Hayden | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
Only the pressure of the peace movement, bloggers and the mainstream media might make Clinton or Obama break with their advisers and issue an actual plan for ending the war.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.18.2008 | 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...
Lionel Beehner | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
Five years after the fall of Saddam, Iraqis cannot escape the inferno of violence in their own country, largely because of Washington's unwillingness to help them.
Jon Soltz | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
Maybe this five-year date will jog the media out of its Iraq-fatigue, and force them to confront what is happening, and report on it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.17.2008 | 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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.17.2008 | 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,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.17.2008 | 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...
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Sometime soon, the U.S. military will suffer the 4,000th death of the war in Iraq. When the 1,000th American died in September 2004, ...
Think Progress | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
On April 1, 2007, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) strolled through the open-air Shorja market in Baghdad in an effort to prove that Americans are "not getting...
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CBS News | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics