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Letters
Salon Staff
Knight Ridder's John Walcott and others sound off on the media's handling of the Downing Street memo. Plus: Readers debate the case for impeaching President Bush.
Return of the body counts
Mark Benjamin
With Americans souring on the war in Iraq, the U.S. military has started talking up the number of insurgents killed. Are we headed down the same corrupting road we did in Vietnam?
The Army’s not-so-heroic damage control
Mark Follman
The Army blames muddled regulations -- not a coverup -- for its failure to tell the truth about sports star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman's death, until after his family buried him.
The revenge of Baghdad Bob
Juan Cole
Bush's ludicrous statements about Iraq are increasingly reminiscent of the propaganda spouted by the former spokesman for the Iraqi regime -- except that they're not funny.
Do you feel a draft?
Tim Grieve
Even after lowering its expectations, the Army fails to meet its recruiting standards for the fourth month in a row.
Fear and explosions in Kabul
Quil Lawrence
Afghanistan isn't Iraq yet. But when a suicide bomber blew himself and two other people up inside my hotel's Internet cafe, it became impossible to ignore the rising anger at foreigners here.
An epidemic failure
Geraldine Sealey
President Bush claims he is leading the world in the fight against global AIDS. But he has been inexplicably stingy and slow to act -- and by placing religion over science, he's responsible for the loss of untold numbers of lives.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to the unmasking of Deep Throat and weigh in on whether Rush Limbaugh matters.
See no evil
Sidney Blumenthal
Cloaked in myopic self-righteousness, the Bush administration is trying to make its gulag problem disappear by attacking Amnesty International. This isn't just blind and arrogant, it's harming the national interest.
Still to blame
Joe Conason
Newly declassified files on detainee abuse include sworn statements by a Pentagon employee about a military interrogator who threw the Koran on the floor and "stepped on it" -- provoking detainees to riot.
Rethinking the holy war
Page Rockwell
With allegations of Quran abuse in the headlines, the Pentagon approves, and then retracts, an image of a U.S. tank called the "New Testament."
G.I. Jane kicks some GOP ass
Katharine Mieszkowski
Republican lawmakers retreat on plans to scale down women's duties in military combat.
Ripped from my headlines!
Mark Benjamin
"Law and Order: SVU" pulls details from my reporting for its gripping finale. So why is the "reporter" such an ink-stained wretch?
Trading accusations
Jamie Wilson, Declan Walsh
The U.S., Britain and Hamid Karzai argue over who is most to blame for the explosive growth in Afghanistan's opium production.
Inside Saddam’s prison
Antony Barnett et al.
The pictures of the ex-dictator in his underwear refocus world attention on America's treatment of other "high-value" detainees.
Pat Tillman’s parents: Army, Bush used our son
Eric Boehlert
The family of the former NFL player who volunteered to hunt bin Ladin, says government purposefully lied about their son's death.
Music, the military, and badgers
Salon Staff
TTers weigh in on the dumbing down of war and rock, and play with five weird words.
Worse than a flushed Quran
Eric Boehlert
Forget flushed Qurans -- the New York Times, quoting an Army report, details how Afghan prisoner torture was widespread
Religious abuses at Gitmo
Mark Follman
More evidence as to why Newsweek's blunder doesn't debunk the greater mess of allegations about mistreatment of detainees -- religious coercion included -- at the U.S. military prison.
The lies that led to war
Juan Cole
A leaked British memo, and other documents, make it clear that Bush intended all along to invade Iraq -- and lied about it to the American people. The full gravity of his offense has not yet sunk in.
Wrong and right
Sidney Blumenthal
Newsweek clearly erred in its sourcing, but the White House is committing a far greater sin in ignoring the overwhelming evidence of U.S. abuse of Muslim detainees.
Rise in soldiers needing medical care
Mark Benjamin
Veterans Affairs says 85,000 troops from Afghanistan and Iraq have been treated in military hospitals.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers sound off on Newsweek's retracted story, Bill Moyers' take on the media, and whether anyone cares if the New York Times charges for its online content.
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