Woodward: Bush Said His Iran Strategy Was "They're A**holes"
There's been so much going on with the campaign lately, that I hadn't paid much attention to Bob Woodward's newest book, The War Within. Tonight he w...
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Conventional Wisdom Surging
Edward Humes | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
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Two highly suspect yet seemingly unkillable narratives continue to swirl through the election largely unchallenged: the undeniable success of "The Surge" and McCain's reputation as a proven military leader.
Petraeus Closes Book on McCain Plan for Afghanistan
Patrick Barry | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
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General Petraeus' remarks yesterday should close the book on John McCain's overly-simplistic strategy for restoring stability to Afghanistan.
Dear Obama: Vets Email Debate Tips and More
Emily Pease | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home
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"You don't want a maverick in charge. Look at MacArthur. He wanted to nuke Korea. Thank goodness Truman pulled him out."
Sarah Palin Calls For Impossible 'Surge' In Afghanistan
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics
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In the second part of CBS News' sit down with anchor Katie Couric, the conversation will switch to matters abroad, including the ongoing conflict on A...
US Rethinks Afghanistan Strategy With An Eye On The Bush Legacy
NY Times | ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Four months before President Bush leaves office, his top civilian and military aides are conducting four major new reviews of the war st...
US soldiers accidentally kill Sunni leader in Iraq
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — American soldiers accidentally shot and killed the leader of a local U.S.-allied Sunni group Tuesday after coming under attack in a vo...
The Dark Side Of The Surge: Cleansing, Partitioning, Imprisonment
AlJazeera Magazine | Robert Parry | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home
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Since Jan. 10, 2007, when George W. Bush announced his troop "surge," more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have died in the Iraq War - about a quarter of the...
Car Bomb Kills 32 North Of Baghdad, Where "Surge" Has Not Stopped Violence
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — A car bomb ripped through a crowded commercial district in a mainly Shiite town on Friday, killing at least 32 people, Iraqi officials...
"Surge" Success May Be Fleeting
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — The U.S. troop surge did what it aimed: Calm Iraq down. But now, an increasing number of U.S. officials are worried that the hard-won ...
7 Years Later: Could Civilians Be Key to Winning the War on Terror?
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
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More and more people around the world are disavowing violence against civilians, and support for terrorism is drying up.
Surge Proponents Face October Test: Will Provincial Elections Even Take Place?
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
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Has the surge succeeded in Iraq? The political consensus at the moment appears to be "yes," with even surge opponent Barack Obama telling Bill O'Reill...
Bush's History of the World Part. 1: The Surge
Patrick Barry | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
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In so many ways, yesterday's speech by President Bush offered absolutely nothing to distinguish itself from his past addresses - it felt hostile, dec...
Obama Rebuts Bush on Iraq and Afghanistan Surgelet (Live in OH)
Ari Melber | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
DAYTON, OH -- After finishing an education address that was supposed to drive his campaign message today, Sen. Barack Obama tacked a press conference...
Petraeus Successor Odierno Faces Many Challenges In Iraq, Raising Concerns For Some
The Miami Herald | Chris Vaughn | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
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FORT WORTH, Texas -- Gen. David Petraeus cast such an enormous shadow the last two years that only the most fervent Army watcher could probably say wh...
How Did the RNC Insult Troops and Veterans? Let Me Count the Ways...
Jon Soltz | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
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Last week's convention sure made every superficial effort to come off as pro-Troop. And the media ate it up, not challenging a single thing. But to those of us who did serve, it was offense after offense after offense.
Meet the Bloggers: Darcy Burner Can End the Iraq War Responsibly
ZP Heller | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics
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When it comes to the Iraq war, the question is no longer whether the U.S. should end it, but how. On yesterday's Meet the Bloggers, special guest Darcy Burner made the case for A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, which she co-authored earlier this year.
Baghdad Bling
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics
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The sheer audacity of this White House is beyond belief -- why are we permitting Iraq's government to get away with this highway robbery when it could easily shoulder more of the reconstruction burden?
McCain To Propose An "Economic Surge" For America
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics
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John McCain has famously admitted to a "lack of knowledge" about economics. So when he talks about the economy later today in Ohio, it appears he will...
Supposedly Pro-American Iraq Groups Termed 'Enemies With Benefits'
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
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Spencer Ackerman, one of the internet's trusted sources of real talk on Iraq, today promotes a great new way of terming ongoing relationships with the...
Obama Confronts Reporter Over "Surge" Question (VIDEO)
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
At the Unity Conference in Chicago this morning, Barack Obama, for the 365,292nd time, was asked if he felt he needed to admit that the "Surge" worked...
Withdrawing from Iraq, Reinforcing Afghanistan
Joe Galloway | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
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Bush and McCain had barely completed even one Iraq victory lap singing hosannas to the surge when they were obliged to begin thinking and talking about how they're going to shore up a failing policy in Afghanistan.
McCain Tries to Fight Back the Obama Surge as the Cracker Jack Candidate
Bill Katovsky | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
What will be McCain's next ad? Blaming Obama for the housing or banking crisis? Long lines to see Dark Knight? It's all Obama's fault!
Digging a Deeper Hole
Shawn Brimley | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
A surge is really a counterinsurgency? That argument isn't going to fly, McCain.
The Surge or the Surge?
Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
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When McCain went on CBS, he completely bungled the facts about the surge and demonstrated that he had no idea of how the the counterinsurgency or Anbar Awakening played out.
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