Iraq Study Group

Alabama Dems Benefit From GOP Congressman's Toxic Ties To Saddam

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home


Nathaniel Bach

GOP candidate Mike Rogers took money from a donor whose poison was found in the hands of Hussein's regime. The poison-maker also contributed to Roger's personal PAC shortly after a bill to ban the substance was introduced to a House Committee on which Rogers sits.

As Petraeus Blames Iran, Gilchrest and Murtha Call for Diplomatic "Surge"

Robert Naiman | Posted 04.09.2008 | Home


Robert Naiman

If Gilchrest's new, bipartisan push for real diplomacy with Iran and Syria gains support, it would put significant pressure on the administration to curtail its policy of confrontation with Iran.

Iraq Study Group Advisers: Political Progress "Superficial" Since Surge

Washington Post | Robin Wright | Posted 04.06.2008 | Home


A new assessment of U.S. policy in Iraq by the same experts who advised the original Iraq Study Group concludes that political progress is "so slow, h...

Iraq: More Proof that the Baker-Hamilton Commission Was Right and the Bush-McCain Surge Was Wrong

David Fiderer | Posted 03.31.2008 | Home


David Fiderer

The surge is playing out exactly as the Iraq Study Group said it would. The "progress" in Iraq is ephemeral, if not cosmetic.

Second Baker-Hamilton Waiting On Baker

Politico | Posted 01.22.2008 | Home


The Iraq Study Group might get a second go-round. Legislation pushed by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), which is now law, directs the U.S. Institute of Peace...

Opportunity in Iran

Rand Beers | Posted 12.04.2007 | Home


Rand Beers

The findings of the NIE on Iran create a tremendous opportunity. Yet after the president's press conference today this is an opening the Bush administration will likely miss.

MoveOn: Hillary Gets it Right, Elizabeth Edwards Gets it Wrong, and Rudy Gets It In the Eye

Jane Hamsher | Posted 09.17.2007 | Home


Jane Hamsher

It's just such a basic, elemental principle at play here -- you don't help the right wing out by repeating their talking points, ever. Why was this so hard to grasp?

Bush-Petraeus Contradicts Baker-Hamilton

Ned Lamont | Posted 09.12.2007 | Home


Ned Lamont

Thank you General Petraeus for your military analysis of the ground game, but it's time to pressure Congress to pass a timeline to end America's combat operations in Iraq.