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McCain confused about Petraeus’ job, chain of command
Steve Benen
In the latest in a series of gaffes, McCain flubs question on Petraeus and Afghanistan.
Iraq: The ten commandments
Gary Kamiya
In honor of Charlton Heston, here are 10 lessons we should engrave on our foreign policy tablets as we prepare to leave Iraq.
More on Michael Mukasey’s false 9/11 and FISA claims
Glenn Greenwald
The Attorney General, under questioning yesterday, now admits that he erred in what he described. But that doesn't mitigate the core deceit
Once upon a time, Dad went to war
Alison Buckholtz
Books had always helped me in a crisis. But could I find one that explained to my kids why their father was in Iraq?
McCain’s bizarre reluctance on the new GI Bill
Steve Benen
Why McCain won't support a bipartisan bill on education benefits for veterans.
The financial costs of war
Steve Benen
Bush's bogus arguments about defense spending fall apart under scrutiny.
“We’ll make you see death”
Joanne Mariner
A harrowing account from a man the CIA handed over to Jordan -- smuggled from prison on tiny paper -- exposes U.S. complicity in torture.
The central front in the “war on terror”?
Steve Benen
Biden gets Crocker to acknowledge that al-Qaida is a greater threat along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border than it is in Iraq.
Does NATO want out of Afghanistan?
Matthias Gebauer
Behind closed doors a paper has been circulated that may provide the beginnings of an exit strategy.
The DOJ comments on the Mukasey controversy
Glenn Greenwald
Even Mukasey's own defense illustrates that the dishonest exploitation of 9/11 for ever-expanding unchecked government power continues to this day.
Why doesn’t the 9/11 Commission know about Mukasey’s 9/11 story?
Glenn Greenwald
Did the attorney general just reveal a critical, previously unknown fact about the 9/11 attack, or did he lie about it to demand new spying powers?
Terror and loathing
Laura Miller
Martin Amis may not know much about Islam and 9/11, but he knows what he hates.
Michael Mukasey’s tearful lies
Glenn Greenwald
Bush's new attorney general follows in Alberto Gonzales' footsteps perfectly with slavish, fact-free devotion to the president's whims.
“Stop-Loss”
Stephanie Zacharek
Ryan Phillippe plays a soldier called back to Iraq after he's completed his term of duty. How can we not care?
Taking stock of the war on terror
Mark Danner
Not only has America not defeated al-Qaida -- but now terrorism has gone viral.
Clinton: Wright “would not have been my pastor”
Alex Koppelman
Hillary Clinton speaks out on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and the Obama campaign isn't happy.
“Clinton will not be able to win the nomination”
Alex Koppelman
In its latest talking points memo, the Obama campaign takes advantage of a media moment.
Various items
Glenn Greenwald
McCain's unexamined ties to religious extremists. Looking back at the media's Iraq failures. More media celebrations of their friend, John McCain.
Bomb, bomb Iran?
Joe Conason
John McCain's gaffe about an Iran-al-Qaida connection revealed how he and his hard-line allies are itching to target the mullahs next.
Robbing the cradle of civilization, five years later
Salon Staff
Just how bad was the looting of Iraq's museum and archaeological sites? According to Salon's experts, many ancient artifacts have come home, but the looting continues.
Antiwar protests mark Iraq anniversary
Amanda Silverman
The crowd in Washington on the anniversary of the U.S. invasion was full of the usual characters.
Five years of Iraq lies
Juan Cole
How President Bush and his advisors have spent each year of the war peddling mendacious tales about a mission accomplished.
Of war and cancer
Gary Kamiya
Five years after Bush invaded Iraq, anti-Americanism has metastasized. But we can still beat it.
Bush “envious” of U.S. troops in Afghanistan
Alex Koppelman
In a videoconference briefing, the president describes what soldiers are doing there as "in some ways romantic."
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