Iraq Wmd

Colin Powell Gets Mad at Me

Jonathan Schwarz | Posted 05.15.2012

Jonathan Schwarz

The evidence is overwhelming that Colin Powell knew much of what he said in front of the Security Council was false.

Dan Froomkin

Powell: Bush Didn't Consult NSC On Iraq War

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.10.2012

WASHINGTON -- In his new book, former Secretary of State Colin Powell provides what may be the most authoritative confirmation yet that there was neve...

With Iran, Threat Inflation Is the Threat

William Astore | Posted 05.12.2012

William Astore

If a nuclear-armed Iran is indeed the greatest threat we as a nation face, that is indeed good news. Even better: Our latest intelligence estimate suggests that Iran still doesn't have a nuclear weapon, nor is it clear whether its leaders have decided to build one.

As Iraq Struggles, Another Opportunity for Neocons to Blame Obama

Dorian de Wind | Posted 02.26.2012

Dorian de Wind

Now that we have pulled out of Iraq -- on a schedule negotiated by the Bush administration -- and as instability and violence are on the increase there -- as we feared they would be -- the very same chickenhawks who got us into this mess are now rearing their heads to blame Obama .

Iraqi Informant: I'm Proud My WMD Lies Led To Iraq War

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — An Iraqi man whose testimony the United States used as a key evidence to build a case for war in Iraq says he is proud that he lied abo...

NYT's Keller Disparages Assange

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.26.2011

Coleen Rowley

How unseemly for New York Times executive editor Bill Keller to look down so disdainfully at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, with a nasty ad hominem portrayal in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine.

WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Randall Amster

By now you've probably seen (or at least heard about) the recent WikiLeaks logs on Iraq (and previously on Afghanistan), which reveal a pattern of wid...

WATCH General: Bush Officials Pushed For Iraq War 'Almost To The Point Of Insubordination'

Alexander Belenky | Posted 05.25.2011

Former Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton says that, during the Bush administration, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy, Paul Wolfowit...

An Unsanitized Look at the Origins of the Iraq War

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Joseph A. Palermo

The debacle in Iraq is not merely a result of errors in planning or poor decision-making. Soldiers are still risking their lives every day in Iraq, "combat" or no "combat," and many more will die for this policy our neo-con leaders handed down to us.

War Propaganda: Soldiers Become Pawns For The Powerful

Jake Diliberto | Posted 05.25.2011

Jake Diliberto

As a Patriotic American and a former Marine, I urge all of us to get realistic about this war. At the rate of 8 billion dollars a month, do Americans want to be in Afghanistan for the next 15 years?

Tony Blair Plotted to Free a Terrorist in Exchange for Oil -- Does This Finally Reveal the Truth About Iraq?

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Johann Hari

Is your life worth more to your government than a few pence added onto Big Oil's share price? Sometimes there is a story that lays out the priorities of governments once the doors are closed and cameras switched off.

In Green Zone, Actor Said Faraj Connects His Role to His Life

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Balfour

Said Faraj gives the film Green Zone verisimilitude from a very personal perspective. In this exclusive interview, we learn of a life that few outside of the Middle East have experienced.

Tony Blair: Would Have Invaded Iraq Without WMD

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to p...

Tony Blair: Even Without Evidence Of WMD, I Would Have Invaded Iraq Anyway

The Guardian | Riazat Butt and Richard Norton | Posted 05.25.2011

Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to p...

Makin' Stuff Up

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeff Danziger

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Night of the Long Pointing Fingers

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

Brian Ross

Republican politicians all seem to be trying their hand at historic re-creationism to transform both the history and future of the Republican party into their own image.

Why Americans Hate Journalism, Part 62

Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Marty Kaplan

In less time than it takes to say "Dick Cheney," the secret Iraq letter -- what would be one of the most outrageous violations of the Constitution in the history of the Republic -- is made into a left/right issue.

The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened?

Ron Suskind | Posted 05.25.2011

Ron Suskind

What just happened? Evidence. A secret that has been judiciously kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is new, never reported in any way...

Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Steve Clemons

A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.

Britain Releases Iraq WMD Dossier Draft

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — An early version of a British dossier of prewar intelligence on Iraq did not include a key claim about weapons of mass destruction that...

FBI Agent: Saddam Admitted He Miscalulated US Invasion

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein kept up the illusion that he had weapons of mass destruction before 2003 because he did not think the United Sta...

UK Ordered To Make Blair's Iraq WMD Documents Public

Daily Mail | Posted 05.25.2011

The Foreign Office has been ordered to publish an early draft of Tony Blair's "dodgy dossier" on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. It now has 28 da...

60 Minutes Report: Saddam Let The World Think He Had WMD

60 Minutes | Posted 05.25.2011

For a man who drew America into two wars and countless military engagements, we never knew what Saddam Hussein was thinking. But you are going to hear...

Thompson: Iraq Had WMD Before U.S. Invaded

Des Moines Register | Posted 05.25.2011

Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson said today he was certain former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction prior to the 2003 U.S...