Iraq War Anniversary

As we limp into Year Six, listen to the troops' families. They offer the only clear picture anyone among the rest of us will get, to illuminate even a small part of their sacrifice.

McCain is so certain of the success, and direction, of the war, he's willing to stake his political life on it, and the lives of thousands more over the next century, which is how long he's prepared to make it last.

Being against the Iraq War wasn't hard -- it was easy. The Iraq War made no sense, even as a wish. To wish for a war on someone else's soil is to wish death and destruction on others.

I did a series of conversations to find out how both critics and supporters of the war effort see the current situation. I talked to Les Gelb, George Packer, Richard Perle, Fred Kagan and two young Iraqis.

The U.S. no longer controls its destiny, for the first time since WWII. How do we regain control over our destiny? By standing up to our mistakes and reviving our lost idealism.

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 ...

If we were making real progress in Iraq, why then must Cheney travel to Iraq undercover, while Iranian President Ahmadinejad openly arrives to a red carpet greeting?

No party leadership, Democrat or Republican cares a whit about the Iraq occupation, whether it is the fifth anniversary, or the hundredth -- except as it can be used to mobilize a vote or two.

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 conference on political reconciliation (the actual goal of the surge) exposed just how divided Iraq remains: three of the country's most important political factions boycotted the event. "We entered the conference to reaffirm our support for national reconciliation, and we left to show our rejection of all these fake conferences," said one boycotter. But the quote of the week belonged to Cheney who, when asked about polls showing two-thirds of Americans don't think the war in Iraq is worth it, replied: "So?" Happy Easter, HuffPosters.

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

Had leading Democrats taken the trouble to fashion thoughtful and reasonable national security principles in the post-Vietnam era, quite possibly they would have felt comfortable opposing the invasion of Iraq.

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.

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

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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 pers...

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...