Don't believe the "surge" freaks, like McCain, who tell you the insurgency in Iraq is disappearing. Anywhere there is illegal occupation, there will be justifiable insurrection.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
Sen. John Kerry charged John McCain with possessing a thorough lack of knowledge about Iraq and Afghanistan on Thursday, warning that the Arizona Repu...
Bennet Kelley | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
Operation Iraqi Freedom was never about liberating the people of Iraq but instead about liberating its assets for foreign exploitation.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
McCain will opt for war as the first choice, not the last choice. With America now embroiled in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, one has to worry about John McCain's desire to "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
Coming off of a week in which he made several notable gaffes and was overshadowed by his rival's trip overseas, Sen. John McCain was undoubtedly hopin...
Think Progress | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
During a January 30 Republican primary debate, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pilloried former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for having once used the word "...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
John McCain was struck with a bit of unfortunate timing on Friday when his speech touting the security benefits of the surge was preceded by news of t...
Jon Soltz | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
John McCain sure is a maverick, I'll give him that. In just a week, he's managed to alienate the Iraqi Prime Minister, the Iraqi people, the American people, and the veterans community.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
Last week, the Democratic National Committee blasted out to reporters a memo of selected quotes designed to show the John McCain not only making unrea...
Matt Littman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
McCain, the former press darling who once referred to the media as "my base," is so upset that press is following Obama, he's become whining and petulant about it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
The major Sunni sheik who John McCain said was protected by the surge and subsequently helped lead the Anbar Awakening, was actually assassinated by a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment to preventing a future genocide was not sincere, attacking the Democratic cand...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
McCain's belief that the surge "won the war" contradicts the substance of the "status of force" agreement the Bush administration has been trying to ram down the Iraqi government's throat.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
There is near drunken jubilation among Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill over recent remarks by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other official...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.29.2008 | Media
As anyone who hasn't been living under a boulder knows by now, John McCain has always enjoyed an extra-special relationship with the press, who care f...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign argued on Monday that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's endorsement of Barack Obama's troop withdrawal plan was "one inartful...
ABC News | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
"Look, the fact is that if Barack Obama's policy on Iraq had been implemented, Barack Obama couldn't go to Iraq today, it wouldn't be safe," Sen. Joe ...
Richard Klass | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
Obama has talked about new ways of thinking about military power and international relations and has more clearly seen world realities and possibilities for creative ways to deal with those realities.
CNN | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
John McCain said Friday he expects the presidential election this fall will increase the occurrence of "spectacular" terror attempts in Iraq. Speakin...
CNN | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
McCain was peppered with questions about Hagel while campaigning in Nebraska Wednesday evening. Speaking to reporters after meeting workers a truckin...
Lawrence Korb | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
McCain is to be commended for his desire to increase security in Afghanistan, but U.S. progress there would have been better served by an earlier and stronger commitment from him and other conservatives.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Despite rumblings that his advocacy for John McCain could lead to his ouster from the Democratic Party, Joseph Lieberman continued on Tuesday to take ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
President Bush, during a news conference on Tuesday, compared current-day Afghanistan to the war in Iraq in the height of its insurgency. In the proce...
Tom Hayden | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
In John McCain, the hawks have found the perfect iconic candidate for keeping the Iraq war alive through the present depths of its democratic legitimacy crisis.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
The desire within the McCain campaign to paint Barack Obama as inconsistent on Iraq is palpable. But McCain's criticisms are a bit inconsistent themse...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics