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How Did the RNC Insult Troops and Veterans? Let Me Count the Ways...

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Surge, Department of Veterans Affairs, John McCain, Surge, Success of the Surge, Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, Opsec, Wesley Clark, Republican Convention, 2008 Presidential Election, Veterans, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Iraq Veterans, Walter Reed Middle School, Walter Reed, Politics News
Jon Soltz

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.

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Meet the Bloggers: Darcy Burner Can End the Iraq War Responsibly

ZP Heller | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cenk Uygur, David Goldstein, Congress, Brave New Foundation, Time Horizon, Timetable, Meet the Bloggers, George Bush, Media, Diplomacy, 2008 Election, Withdrawal, Barack Obama, Surge, Iraq War, Oil, Joan Mccarter, Darcy Burner, Iraq, Matt Stoller, John McCain, Warwire, Iraq Warwire, Politics News
ZP Heller

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. 

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Baghdad Bling

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Surge, Iraq Reconstruction, Middle East, Gasoline Prices, Baghdad, Iraq, Congress, Oil, Opec, Democrats, General Accounting Office, Iraq Oil Profits, Oil Profit Surplus, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

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?

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Seth Colter Walls

McCain To Propose An "Economic Surge" For America

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Surge, Economics, Economy, John Mccain Surge, McCain Surge, John McCain Economics, Mccain Economic Surge, McCain Economics, Politics News

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...

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Jason Linkins

Supposedly Pro-American Iraq Groups Termed 'Enemies With Benefits'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Spencer Ackerman, Success of the Surge, War in Iraq, Anbar Awakening, Surge, Politics News

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...

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Jason Linkins

Obama Confronts Reporter Over "Surge" Question (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Surge, Barack Obama, Obama Interview, Obama Reporter Surge, Politics News

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...

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Withdrawing from Iraq, Reinforcing Afghanistan

Joe Galloway | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Surge, John McCain, Surge, Success of the Surge, Afghanistan, Aghan Poppy Crop, George W. Bush, John Mccain Surge, Taliban, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Joe Galloway

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.

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McCain Tries to Fight Back the Obama Surge as the Cracker Jack Candidate

Bill Katovsky | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election, Iraq, John McCain, Surge, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bill Katovsky

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!

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Digging a Deeper Hole

Shawn Brimley | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Iraq, Surge, Mccain, Counterinsurgency, War, Politics News
Shawn Brimley

A surge is really a counterinsurgency? That argument isn't going to fly, McCain.

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The Surge or the Surge?

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Mccain, Mccain Surge Gaffe, Anbar Province, Surge, John McCain Gaffe, John McCain, Politics News
Ilan Goldenberg

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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Obama's Trip: Nothing But Net

Shawn Brimley | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Poll, Obama, Surge, Iraq, Afghanistan, Mccain, Barack Obama, Politics News
Shawn Brimley

Barack Obama is set to complete a masterful overseas trip with his stop in Berlin tomorrow, and has proven yet again that he can gain and sustain the ...

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Seth Colter Walls

McCain Gets History Of The Surge Wrong, CBS Doesn't Air Footage

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Surge, Anbar Province, Barack Obama, Video, Warwire, Ben Bernanke, Politics News

***UPDATED BELOW*** During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made a stone cold error on a subject about which he claims expert knowledge: the "...

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Credit Where it is Due: H.R. McMaster, the Author of the "Surge" Strategy

Janet Ritz | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, John McCain, The Environmentalist, Jack Keane, Robert Gates, H.R. McMaster, George W. Bush, David Petraeus, Political Rhetoric, Afghanistan, Iraq, Surge, Barack Obama, Politics News
Janet Ritz

Credit where it is due, Senator McCain. In the case of "Clear, Hold and Build," that credit belongs to H.R. McMaster and those who tried for so long to have his strategy implemented; too long for the many lives that have been lost.

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Obama Frames Iraq Right, Bush And McCain Slow To React

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Troops, Timetable, American, Iraq, Campaign, Withdrawal, Military, Surge, 2008, Occupation, 2008 Campaign, Status of Forces, Parliament, John McCain, War, 2008 Elections, Congress, Democracy, 08, 2008 Election, Surrender, Election, Barack Obama, 08 Election, Elections, 08 Campaign, 2008 Presidential Race, Maliki, Politics News
Chris Weigant

McCain's going to have to come up with some new spin to explain why Obama and Maliki are now singing from the same songbook on timetables for withdrawal.

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The Simple Arithmetic of a Fraudulent Surge

David Fiderer | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Surge, US Troops Iraq, US Troops, Troops for Afghanistan, Politics News
David Fiderer

From its inception, the Iraq war strategy was like a plan to fly across the Pacific without enough fuel to get to the other side. The surge made the plane fly faster. Our troops are the jet fuel.

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The Coming Together Of McCain And Obama On Iraq

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Doublethink, John McCain, Petraeus, Timetable, Iraq, 2008 Elections, Media, Campaign, 08, Policy, 2008 Election, Withdrawal, Election, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, 08 Election, Iraq War, Middle, Elections, Troop Withdrawal, 08 Campaign, Surge, Troop, 2008, 2008 Presidential Race, Victory, 2008 Campaign, Politics News
Chris Weigant

McCain knows that the electorate wants America out of Iraq, even faster than Obama has proposed. He also knows that his ties to Bush's foreign policy are an albatross around his neck.

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Can the U.S. and Iran Share the Middle East?

Trita Parsi | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Trita Parsi, Iran, Iraq, Surge, John McCain, Middle East, Middle East Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, United States Ahmadinejad, Politics News
Trita Parsi

By negotiating a Shiite truce, Tehran embarrassed Washington last week and arguably proved itself to be a more potent stabilizer of southern Iraq.

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Petraeus Says No New Buildup for Iraq

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq and Us Vulnerability, Iraq War, Warwire, Surge, General David Petraeus, Petraeus Hearing, Iraq War Hearings, Rep. Ike Skelton, Democrat Ike Skelton, Politics News

WASHINGTON — America's war commander in Iraq told Congress Wednesday he is unlikely to endorse any fresh buildup of troops even if security in t...

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A Timeline of Iraq War, Troop Levels

AP | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq, Warwire, Iraq War Troop Levels, Troop Levels Iraq, Surge, Iraq Surge, Politics News

A timeline of major events in the Iraq war and corresponding U.S. troop levels: March 2003 _ U.S. troops invade Iraq: 192,000....

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Bush Bypassing Several Levels Of Chain Of Command To Give Petraeus Priveledged Voice On Iraq

Washington Post | Michael Abramowitz | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home

Read More: David Petraeus, Warwire, Surge, Iraq War, George Bush, Iraq, Bush Military Advisers, Joint Chiefs, Home News

For months, a debate raged at the top levels of the Bush administration over how quickly to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. But the discussi...

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US Trophy Province Anbar Losing Its Shine

Reuters | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anbar, Warwire, Surge, Iraq War, Iraq, Al Anbar Surge, Iraq Five Years of War, Politics News

Tensions are simmering again in once bloody Anbar province, Washington's prize good news story for security in Iraq. Along the main road through Anba...

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The Surge

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Security Gains From Surge Backsliding

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Surge, Success of the Surge, Hillary Clinton Surge, John Mccain Surge, General Petraeus, War in Iraq, Iraq Insurgency, Politics News

It was the crescendo of an otherwise flat State of the Union address. "Ladies and Gentlemen," President George W. Bush declared Monday night, "some ma...

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Selling The Surge: Last Year's Rhetoric Versus This Year's Reality

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq, Warwire, Slideshow, Selling the Surge, Surge, Politics News

One year after his Jan. 10, 2007 televised address to the nation announcing his plan for a miltary "surge" in Iraq, HuffPost takes a look back at how ...

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US Launches Massive Airstrike South Of Baghdad

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Warwire, Surge, US Bombs Southern Baghdad, Iraq War, War in Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq, US Jetfighters, Home News

U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives on the southern outskirts of Baghdad within 10 minutes Thursday in one of the bigg...

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