The Democrats' National Security Hangover
Lately, Democrats have been having a party on national security. An Admiral who wants more troops in Afghanistan, the Bush administration's diplomatic...
Lately, Democrats have been having a party on national security. An Admiral who wants more troops in Afghanistan, the Bush administration's diplomatic...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Bill Delahunt tells the Huffington Post that next Wednesday, his Foreign Affairs subcommittee will hear testimony from for...
AP | TERENCE HUNT | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush and Iraq's prime minister have agreed to set a "general time horizon" for bringing more U.S. troops home from the wa...
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home
WHO: Randy Scheunemann, senior foreign policy adviser WHAT: Press Briefing Call WHEN: Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. ET SUMMARY This call use...
Tom Hayden | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
Al-Maliki and the Pentagon are conspiring to fool public opinion in the US and Iraq during an election year by finally promising a withdrawal deadline with vague parameters. What's going on here?
CNN | Posted 07.09.2008 | Home
A deadline should be set for the withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces from Iraq, and the pullout could be done by 2011, an Iraqi government spokesman ...
Think Progress | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Today, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki suggested having a timetable for the withdrawal of coalition troops. "The direction we are taking is to have a m...
AP | SALLY BUZBEE | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq's national security adviser said Tuesday his country will not accept any security deal with the United States unless it contains ...
Times Of London | James Hilder | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Iraq said for the first time yesterday that it wanted to set a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from its territory. President Bush has long ...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Monday his country wants some type of timetable for a withdrawal of American troops included in the deal th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
On today's Morning Joe, Barack Obama's communications director Robert Gibbs took questions about a potential trip to Iraq for the Illinois Senator. G...
NY Times | CARL HULSE | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
Defying President Bush, House Democrats are preparing to forge ahead with a war spending measure that would include extended unemployment assistance a...
Rasmussen Reports | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 65% of Americans would like to see U.S. troops brought home from Iraq within a year. That's t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
Key surrogates to both Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama suggested on Wednesday that a sensible policy in Iraq would provide the next commander i...
McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel and Nancy A. Youssef | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration was caught off-guard by the first Iraqi-led military offensive since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a weeklong thrust in southern...
Donna Edwards | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
It has been obvious for a long time that our presence in Iraq is making things worse, and that it is not a false choice between supporting the troops and ending the war.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
Former Obama aide Samantha Power may be repentant for calling Sen. Hillary Clinton a political monster, but on the other issue that marked her resigna...
Jeff Merkley | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
It's not enough to wait for a new president to lead us out of way. We must start today to bring our troops home.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
Ever since former aide Samantha Power admitted to the BBC that Sen. Barack Obama's Iraq withdrawal plan could change depending on conditions on the gr...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics
McCain doesn't need Viagra -- he's got Iraq. Call your doctor if your erection lasts longer than four hours -- or your war lasts longer than 100 years.
Washington Post | Michael D. Shear and Juliet Eilperin | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics
Sen. John McCain of Arizona accused former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney of having once supported a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, sparking an ...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics
ORLANDO — John McCain accused Mitt Romney of wanting to set a timetable to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, drawing immediate protest from his Re...
John Bruhns | Posted 12.29.2007 | Politics
The Democrats are the majority party of Congress, and in 2008 they better start acting like it or they will only ensure their own demise.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.15.2007 | Home
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is holding its annual meeting this week. They have elected a new president, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago...
AP | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will vote as early as Friday on legislation that would spend $50 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but r...
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HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics