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Supporting the troops?
Tim Grieve
Bush says to fly a flag or help a military family. How about making a responsible plan for the medical care of injured veterans?
The other war
Tim Grieve
The military now believes that 17 soldiers aboard a Chinook helicopter were killed Tuesday in Afghanistan.
“Clean up this mess”
Salon Staff
Sen. John Kerry says that President Bush will never be effective in Iraq until he first breaks down his wall of arrogance.
Mission continued
David Paul Kuhn
Facing a public opinion quagmire, President Bush stuck to his guns on Iraq Tuesday night -- but offered no clear plan for winning.
And what about Iran?
Aaron Kinney
What does the election of a hard-line conservative president augur for U.S.-Iran relations?
Kerry, Dems demand Downing Street inquiry
Tim Grieve
The former presidential candidate vowed that he would make an issue of the Downing Street memo in Congress. Now he has.
Karl Rove is a liar
Joe Conason
In attacking liberals' reaction to Sept. 11, Bush's senior advisor once again resorts to McCarthy-style tactics.
The outrage of Karl Rove
Tim Grieve
Dick Durbin was forced to apologize for speaking the truth. Will Rove apologize for telling a slanderous lie?
Orwell’s Burmese days
Priya Jain
A new book ventures to an impenetrable corner of the world to show how Burma shaped one of the 20th century's most important writers.
The public opinion quagmire
Mark Follman
A conservative columnist and military blogger offers some intriguing perspective on why support for the war is waning on the home front.
No democracy for you
Lailee Mendelson
My Iranian cousin consoled me when Kerry went down in November, and now I can only return the sympathy as hard-line conservatives rise again in his country.
The truth about Tillman
Mark Follman
The U.S. military is in for some more miserable publicity over Pat Tillman's death -- but the disgraceful handling of his story is equally damning for the Bush White House.
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.
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