The Senators Grill Petraeus; My Brother Messages Me From Iraq
As the Senate hearing on Iraq was winding down, I received an IM from my brother Sam, a soldier in Iraq. He's asking the same thing as the senators: "What are we doing here?"
As the Senate hearing on Iraq was winding down, I received an IM from my brother Sam, a soldier in Iraq. He's asking the same thing as the senators: "What are we doing here?"
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Earlier this morning, Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) took time out from the rigors of their Iraq War hearings to play a little...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Soft-spoken Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) may have been the last questioner of this morning's hearings on Iraq, but he ended up being a highlight of the he...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
What would it take for America to tell Maliki that we aren't going to support the Iraqi Army in any military offensive?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
On one level, it is fortunate that the Wall Street Journal, a day before General David Petraeus arrives on Capitol Hill to re-engage his attempts to s...
Max and the Marginalized | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
Gen. Petraeus will be answering questions on Capitol Hill this week, and since it's the congress and not the press doing the asking, there might even be some hard ones.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
Since "stay the course" was 12 slogans ago, the Bush administration had to come up with a new one.
Spencer Ackerman | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
With all the talk about what questions Petraeus is likely to face next week, less attention has been paid to what the general's potential answers could be.
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
If only Maliki had waited two or three weeks, Petraeus and Crocker could have testified that everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, and gotten out of Washington unscathed.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
Years after missions were declared to have been accomplished in Iraq, it's still difficult to get a straight answer out of the Bush administration as ...
Robert Guttman | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics
Lieberman needs to see the extent of this anger among his old party and the party needs to accept him as a strong voice for a strong international Democratic foreign policy.
Gareth Porter | Posted 10.25.2007 | Politics
In the fast-morphing war in Iraq, "evidence" has taken on an expansive new meaning.
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 09.19.2007 | Home
About halfway through the September 11 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing with General David Petraeus and Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Senato...
Eat The Press | Rachel Sklar | Posted 09.13.2007 | Media
This week has been marked by two big news events: The Petraeus hearings in Washington, and the sixth anniversary of 9/11. It is probably safe to say t...
Richard Klass | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics
The domestic objective of President Bush's strategy in Iraq is to ensure that the next president -- presumably a Democrat -- is a one-term president.
Michael Schwartz | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics
I think that many of you share my need to read something that douses the stench of the last two days with some refreshing (but depressing) evidence about what is really going on in Iraq.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics
Obama asked the United States Ambassador to Iraq about the lack of progress on the part of the Iraqi government to stabilize itself. Here is what Crocker said.
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home
Asking General Petraeus to faithfully report on the entirely unknowable future course of his own actions is an act of collective delusion. The accuracy and honesty of his report is irrelevant.
Washington Post | William Branigin, Robin Wright and Peter Baker | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home
The top U.S. military commander and diplomat in Iraq today came under sharp questioning from Democratic and Republican senators demanding a justificat...
Washington Post | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home
"I can't give you any timelines, dates or guarantees," Crocker just said. Again, that seems to me the message of these hearings. Crocker and Petraeus...
Dan DeWalt | Posted 09.11.2007 | Politics
Whatever you think of Move-On.org, they have every right to question this General's testimony. That anyone is willing to give them credibility is astounding, let alone to presume that we should trust anyone who is associated with them not to misrepresent reality when convenient.
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 09.11.2007 | Politics
Those with a partisan axe to grind will find plenty of material in the Petraeus-Crocker testimonies. But it's long past time to put aside the rhetoric, and to stop waiting for answers from on high.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.10.2007 | Politics
Like Pontius Pilate washing his hands of responsibility, too many in the Washington press corps want to pretend they are leaving the question of "what is truth" to their readers -- refusing to admit that there is even such a thing as truth.
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 09.07.2007 | Politics
Whoever the Democratic nominee turns out to be will find him or herself weathering lies and misdirection that will pull lesser minds under its sway. There is only one way to protect ourselves: bring back literacy tests.
PBS | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics
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Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 04.09.2008 | Home