Iraq War Anniversary

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Year Six

Mary Lyon | Posted March 24, 2008 | Politics


Mary Lyon

The woman stammered. She obviously knew she was still on the air and had to maintain her composure. But it was clear to anyone's ear that she was having a difficult time. Her voice clouded with emotion as she struggled to tell the talk show host and his audience of...

Our Man in Baghdad -- John McCain

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted March 24, 2008 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

Now that we got rid of our first man in Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, for good, why not make room for another? John McCain made an unannounced appearance in the Iraqi capital last Sunday with no word of when troops will be making their disappearance. Instead, the likely Republican presidential nominee...

Five Years in Iraq: My Conversations with War Critics and Supporters

Charlie Rose | Posted March 24, 2008 | Politics


Charlie Rose

On the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, I did a series of conversations to find out how both critics and supporters of the war effort see the current situation. Some of the critical voices I listened to are Les Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations,...

The Bill Arrives for a Free War

Deepak Chopra | Posted March 24, 2008 | Politics


Deepak Chopra

Watching the troubles of the economy, some observers don't want a bailout for either Wall St. or stressed homeowners who find themselves in over their heads. The phrase "moral hazard" is being tossed around as shorthand for "You took the risk, now take your lumps." It would seem that the...

Media Turns Its Back on Iraq

New York Times   |  Richard Perez-Pena   |   March 23, 2008 10:06 PM


The New York Times reports Monday that as the nation enters the sixth year of the Iraq War, media outlets are paying less attention to the war: Five years later, the United States remains at war in Iraq, but there...

What's Another Five Years Among Friends?

Byron Williams | Posted March 23, 2008 | Politics


Byron Williams

Last week marked the 5th anniversary of the Untied States' invasion and occupation of the sovereign nation of Iraq.

Five years ago, according to Gallup polling, 75% of the country thought we were doing the right thing. That number has diminished to 39% in its most recent poll.

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Five Years in Iraq -- What's the Problem?

Karen Kwiatkowski | Posted March 22, 2008 | Politics


Karen Kwiatkowski

We know the numbers -- 1 trillion dollars, 5 years, 775 detainees in Guantanamo, 935 false statements made by the administration, about 4,000 dead Americans, 30-50,000 wounded soldiers, over 100,000 soldiers with treated and untreated PTSD, almost a million dead Iraqis, 2 million internally displaced Iraqis and up to...

Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted March 22, 2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

Talk about a reality disconnect: making a 5th war anniversary visit to Iraq, Dick Cheney called the surge a "major success." Also in Iraq, John McCain - in between repeatedly asserting a nonexistent connection between al-Qaeda and Iran - crowed, "the surge is working." Meanwhile, in Baghdad, a highly touted...

Five Years On: Bush, Cheney -- A Contrast in Styles

John Ridley | Posted March 21, 2008 | Politics


John Ridley

Five years. Nearly four thousand American lives. Perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead. Half a trillion dollars spent and we're still rolling up the tab.

How do you mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq? President Bush and Vice-President Cheney were a contrast in styles.

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War and Remembrance

Gary Hart | Posted March 20, 2008 | Politics


Gary Hart

Had leading Democrats taken the trouble to fashion thoughtful and reasonable national security principles in the post-Vietnam era and thereby regained the confidence of the American people in their ability to protect the country, quite possibly they would have felt comfortable opposing the invasion of Iraq. Instead, they permitted the...

Stop Gotcha Politics on Iraq

Anne-Marie Slaughter | Posted March 20, 2008 | Politics


Anne-Marie Slaughter

In his post earlier this week on the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Tom Hayden quotes a line from a 2004 Foreign Affairs article by Lee Feinstein and me radically out of context and infers from it a position that neither Lee nor I hold. The line...

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

Huffington Post   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 19, 2008 08:28 PM


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.

Bush's Iraq Strategery: Blame The Troops

Bob Cesca | Posted March 19, 2008 | Politics


Bob Cesca

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Iraq invasion and occupation has been the administration's -- and mainly the president's -- predictably awful and irresponsible habit of placing the burden of the success or failure of this thing squarely on the shoulders of an already overburdened military. Specifically, President...

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An Analyst Looks At Back On Iraq With Sadness and Scorn

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Sam Stein   |   March 19, 2008 09:48 AM


As the war in Iraq completes its fifth year this week, The Huffington Post is featuring interviews with and essays by those journalists, elected officials, policymakers and former military officials who spoke out early and boldly against what they saw...

By Damaging Our Partnerships, We Damage Our Security

Sen. Russ Feingold | Posted March 18, 2008 | Politics


Sen. Russ Feingold

As the war in Iraq enters its sixth year, official US casualty figures approach 4,000 dead and nearly 30,000 wounded. These figures exclude the many who have less visible but no less damaging injuries to mental health; those whose injuries resulted from accidents while they served in a war zone;...

Max Follmer

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Karen Kwiatkowski: The Soldier Who Spoke Out

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Max Follmer   |   March 18, 2008 10:23 PM


As the war in Iraq completes its fifth year this week, The Huffington Post is featuring interviews with and essays by those journalists, elected officials, policymakers and former military officials who spoke out early and boldly against what they saw...

Five Years On, We've 'Betrayed' Iraqis

Lionel Beehner | Posted March 18, 2008 | Politics


Lionel Beehner

Much of our understanding of Iraq, five years on, is gotten in drive-by glimpses. John McCain swoons into Baghdad for a 48-hour stopover full of photo-ops. American personnel dart out of the Green Zone for quickie missions, rarely sharing tea with the people they are paid to protect. The evening...

Iraq: Five Years and Fading

Jon Soltz | Posted March 18, 2008 | Politics


Jon Soltz

This marks the five-year anniversary of the war in Iraq. Usually, I'm against the media playing up these kinds of things. After all, the five-year date is no different than the day before in Iraq, or the day after in Iraq. Troops are still under attack, some die, some are...

5 Years After Iraq's "Liberation" There Are Worms In The Water

McClatchy Newspapers   |  Hannah Allam   |   March 16, 2008 09:46 PM


Iraq's most prominent clerics have ruled that using a water pump on one's own pipes is akin to stealing resources from a neighbor, so what does a person do when it takes half an hour to fill a cooking pot...
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