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Movies that shock and awe
Eryn Loeb
Can't tell your "Rendition" from your "Redacted"? Salon offers a guide to the onslaught of Iraq war-related movies in theaters now and headed your way.
Live-blogging the Mukasey confirmation hearing
Glenn Greenwald
The Senate Judiciary Committee questions the Bush administration's nominee to replace Alberto Gonzales.
The man who sold the war
Alex Koppelman
"Curveball" author Bob Drogin talks about the Iraqi defector responsible for much of the CIA's bogus prewar intelligence about Iraqi WMD.
So, are the Marines “phony soldiers,” too?
Tim Grieve
Marine Corps commanders propose a trade: We'll take Afghanistan, and the Army can have Iraq.
Sick children left behind
Lynn Harris
Bush vetos health insurance program for poor kids; MoveOn and MomsRising take action.
The Bush administration’s ties to Blackwater
Ben Van Heuvelen
Blamed in the deaths of Iraqi civilians, the private security firm has long ties to the White House and prominent Republicans, including Ken Starr.
For Rush, a warm Republican embrace
Tim Grieve
Introducing a pro-Limbaugh resolution, a GOP representative says Congress should debate Iraq with "solemn respect."
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.
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