The Swamp | Mark Silva | April 17, 2008 04:27 PM
Ilan Goldenberg | Posted April 16, 2008 | Politics
John McCain has been insisting that his 100 years in Iraq comment is being taken out of context. That in fact what he meant is that American troops can stay in Iraq for fifty or 100 years if American troops are no longer being attacked. This assertion leads to a...
Lawrence Korb | Posted April 16, 2008 | Politics
President Bush today announced that he would be following U.S. Army General David Petraeus' recommendations to withdraw 25 percent of American combat forces from Iraq by the end of July. Despite the president's assertion that the withdrawal of these troops represents a "return on success" from his "surge" policy, the...
Mark Green | Posted April 13, 2008 | Politics
Was Dave Petraeus really Bill Murray in Groundhog Day?
This past week saw General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker come back to Capitol Hill for many more hours of grilling and stalling -- for what's now irrefutably clear is that "stay the course" really means not the mission in Iraq so...
Bill Maher | Posted April 11, 2008 | Politics
John Bruhns | Posted April 10, 2008 | Politics
The Petraeus/Crocker testimony on Capitol Hill this week was quite grim. In comparison to their last testimonials in September 2007, they reported that almost nothing has changed. Is it their fault? Of course not. I have no desire to "armchair quarterback" the people who are tasked with making Iraq an...
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Robert Scheer | Posted April 9, 2008 | Politics
General Betray Us? Of course he has. MoveOn.org can hardly be expected to recycle its slogan from last September, when Gen. David Petraeus testified in support of escalating the U.S. war in Iraq, given the hysterical denunciations that worthy group received at the time. But it was right then --...
Rep. John Murtha | Posted April 8, 2008 | Politics
General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker are testifying this week that the "surge" has worked. They claim that violent incidents have decreased and that progress towards victory in Iraq has been made.
When you look at the surge in purely military terms, it has reduced violence. Our men and women...
Max Bergmann | Posted April 8, 2008 | Politics
(written with Ilan Goldenberg)
Here's a wrap up of the entire day of hearings. Only 14 hours til tomorrow...
1. Petraeus and Crocker refuse to tell us what our long term strategy is in Iraq, holding to the weak excuse that they can't make predictions into the
Bill Cusack | Posted April 7, 2008 | Politics
If the surge were a success, Mc Cain and Bush would be bringing home the troops. The fact that McCain and Bush want to keep the surge in place means the surge is a failure. The need to keep the surge means there is a need to keep Iraq from...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | April 7, 2008 03:32 PM
Max and the Marginalized | Posted April 7, 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.
My personal recommendation would be to ask about the toll that repeated deployments are taking on our troops. If you...
Arianna Huffington | Posted April 7, 2008 | Politics
Have you heard the news? "The Surge" is about to end. The next phase of our 100 Year War is "The Pause." Surge, Pause... Surge, Pause... We can't pull out! It's all starting to sound a bit sexual, isn't it? But the American people are the ones getting screwed.
...Think Progress | April 7, 2008 12:30 PM
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