No Take-Home Swag: Stripping Bush and Cheney of Retirement Perks
Let's strip Bush and Cheney of our hard-earned tax dollars, without gloat or bloodlust, then quickly move on. It's the least we can do. They've more than earned it.
Let's strip Bush and Cheney of our hard-earned tax dollars, without gloat or bloodlust, then quickly move on. It's the least we can do. They've more than earned it.
Lee Camp | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

New York Post | Michael Starr | Posted 07.29.2008 | Entertainment
Saddam Hussein: The Miniseries is coming to HBO next year. "House of Saddam," which premieres tomorrow night on BBC Two in the UK, doesn't have an ai...
Lanny Davis | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
Many anti-war Democrats now see a moral obligation (after all the carnage and destruction wrought by our military intervention) not just to pick up and leave Iraq without looking over our shoulders.
Rob Kall | Posted 07.18.2008 | Living
In his speech Thursday in Philadelphia, the Dalai Lama explained that to reach a point where nations would outwardly disarm, people must first inwardly disarm.
Omid Memarian | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Unlike most of veterans who respect human lives due to their profound and extraordinary experiences at wars, McCain's joking about people's lives is a disastrous trait for a president.
Michael Russnow | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Whatever you think about the war in Iraq or how we got there, suggesting that those who are in opposition are less than patriotic is irrational and undemocratic.
Reuters | Nadheer al-Samarrai | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
The head of Saddam Hussein's tribe was killed by a bomb planted on his vehicle north of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. The blast killed Sheikh Ali ...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
Allowing authoritarian regimes to be subject only to internal challenges in exchange for deproliferation and ending the support for terrorism is less bitter than it seems.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media
Scott McClellan reminds me of Saddam Hussein's Minister of Information, Muhammad Sai'd Al Sahhaf... kind of.
Carol Maric | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
I Object! Or is that Subject? This was my first reaction to the common linguistic objectification of sentient beings which has become pervasive in America.
Joseph C. Wilson | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
Obama's close relationship with Wright, his inattention to his responsibilities in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his careless approach to Iraq all suggest that he would benefit from more experience.
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Just give us our symbols and our slogans and we'll be happy. Meanwhile, it won't matter what's really going on over there. What matters is what we're told is going on over there.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics
Despite the fact that contractors now outnumber US soldiers in Iraq, there have to date only been two prosecutions of private personnel.
Peter Dreier | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home
The involuntary resignation of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson this week provides an opportunity to underscore and distinguish the three major failings of the Bush administration.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
McCain claims that he is a break from the flawed strategy of the Bush administration. But the Iraq miasma is not the result of a flawed strategy. It is the result of a flawed concept to begin with.
Jim Wallis | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Repentance means a fundamental change in direction and that is what we must now call for in U.S. foreign policy.
Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 03.22.2008 | Politics
President Bush said lots of things about Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the Iraq War. But few of his charges grabbed more attention than an unscripte...
Spencer Ackerman | Posted 03.20.2008 | Media
It seems as though, despite Jeffrey Goldberg's ability to escape accountability for his journalistic malpractice, he can't help smirking to attentive readers.
James Heffernan | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
Five years ago today, just before dawn broke over Baghdad, U.S. forces launched the Iraq War by dropping four bunker-buster bombs and forty Tomahawk missiles on a palace compound.
Jim Wallis | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
Rather than celebrating the decision to go to war, we lament the suffering and violence in Iraq, and repent of our failure to fully live the teaching of Jesus to be peacemakers.
Tim Dickinson | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
The National Intelligence Estimate at the time cast serious doubts on any Al Qaeda/Iraq link. But Clinton has acknowledged she did not read the NIE.
Reuters | Dean Yates | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
Five years after U.S. and British forces swept into Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein, many Iraqis are asking if the violence and upheaval that turned t...
Steve Almond | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
You're going to need a new approach, one that deprives McCain and his proxies of the fallacious claim that we're at war.
NY Times | Richard Oppel | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Iraqi leaders say they have found a way to execute Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali and one of Saddam Hussein's most notorious henchmen. Mr...
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Jackson Williams | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics