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How the Democrats blew it
Gary Kamiya
The Iraq debacle handed Democrats a golden opportunity to deal the GOP a mortal blow and change America's flawed Mideast policies. They played it safe.
The dark truth about Blackwater
P.W. Singer
Outsourcing the war to private military contractors such as Blackwater has shattered the United States' moral authority and its ability to win wars like that in Iraq.
Waxman takes a shot at Blackwater
Tim Grieve
A tale of shooting first, shooting drunk and charging a lot for the service.
Afghanistan’s next top model
Tracy Clark-Flory
Young women are taking off the burqa and strutting the catwalk for local TV.
Does a bigger Army mean another Iraq?
Mark Benjamin
Every major presidential candidate, including the Democratic front-runners, wants a much bigger Army. But that means an Army expressly designed to fight another war like this one.
Don’t ask, don’t tell, Iranian style
Sandip Roy
Why did Ahmadinejad claim Iran has no homosexuals? It has to do with a quilt.
My questions for President Ahmadinejad
Lee Bollinger
The full text of the speech that Columbia University president Lee Bollinger delivered Monday blasting the Iranian president -- with Ahmadinejad present.
Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1
Juan Cole
Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war.
Mission accomplished — for Iran
Peter Galbraith
The scale of Bush's strategic miscalculation in Iraq is striking, emboldening Iran to extend its influence in the Middle East.
The art of neoconservative innuendo
Glenn Greenwald
An e-mail exchange with Michael Ledeen shows that, as always, neocons lack the courage of their implicit smears.
Texans turn against Bush’s war
Bill Sasser
Disillusionment with Iraq is smoldering even in the heart of Bush country, where military families have paid a heavy price.
Bush’s stairway to paradise
Sidney Blumenthal
Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity.
He voted for it before he voted against it
Tim Grieve
Republican Sen. John Warner reverses course on troop measure.
Why Bush won’t attack Iran
Steven Clemons
Despite saber-rattling, and the Washington buzz that a strike is coming, the president doesn't intend to bomb Iran. Cheney may have other ideas.
Parody paradise
Salon Staff
The erotica of fast food, the car salesman pitch of a president, and the Internet by Bacharach, this week in Salon's reader community, Table Talk.
TV Daily
Salon Staff
Salon's guide to what to watch on Monday: Post-Katrina New Orleans provides the backdrop for Fox's gritty police drama "K-Ville."
American war culture in a nutshell
Glenn Greenwald
Sitting around, war supporter Fred Kagan demands that troops be denied any relief until they win.
The real reason Bush is withdrawing troops from Iraq
Alex Koppelman
Bush says his troop drawdown is due to the success of the surge, but his own advisors -- including Gen. Petraeus -- have given a very different explanation.
Clinton and the general
Tim Grieve
"The reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief."
Feingold: On 9/11, ask the right questions
Tim Grieve
The Wisconsin Democrat goes head-to-head with Petraeus and Crocker.
Brand Petraeus, by the numbers
Tom Engelhardt
As the general goes before Congress to report on the state of the surge in Iraq, a look at the story the statistics really tell.
The killing of Jamie Dean
Julia Dahl
Police in rural Maryland staged a military stakeout and shot a troubled Army vet. As his family plans to sue, they are asking how a soldier being treated for PTSD could be shipped to Iraq.
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