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Dark victory
Jeffrey Record
Why Bush's war in Iraq has damaged America's standing in the world and made us less safe.
At the breaking point
Robert Schlesinger
The Bush administration's unrealistic war planning has increased the dangers facing the men and women on the ground in Iraq.
Can the U.S. avoid a worst-case scenario in Iraq?
Robert Schlesinger
Perhaps -- by increasing troop strength and raising taxes. An interview with "Dark Victory" author Jeffrey Record.
Driving a truck through the Bill of Rights
Geraldine Sealey
Above the law
Tim Grieve
The Bush administration is arguing that it has the right to lock up U.S. citizens forever -- without evidence, witnesses, lawyers or trials. If the Supreme Court agrees, will this still be America?
Letters
Salon Staff
A Vietnam vet warns Bush backers are "playing a dangerous, self-destructive game" by trashing John Kerry's Purple Heart. Plus: Readers respond to P.W. Singer's two-part story, "Outsourcing the War."
The secret $700 million
Cass R. Sunstein
Did the Bush administration deceive Congress and use post-9/11 emergency funds to prepare for war on Iraq? Bob Woodward's new insider account raises some critical questions.
Thursday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
With God on his side
Robert Scheer
George W. Bush the believer marched the nation into madness in Iraq. Smarter policymakers like Colin Powell -- and Bush's own father -- should have stopped him.
$700 million here, $700 million there
Geraldine Sealey
Clarke’s vindication
David Sirota
Just weeks ago, Bush officials were solemnly accusing former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke of being a liar and a self-promoter. But Bob Woodward's book proves that Clarke was right -- and that it was his opponents who were the liars.
Keeping Congress in the dark
Geraldine Sealey
Secret plans and slush funds
Geraldine Sealey
Friday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Warriors for hire in Iraq
P.W. Singer
More than 15,000 employees of private military contractors, from giant Halliburton to tiny commando firms, are working, fighting and dying alongside U.S. soldiers. But who calls the shots in an outsourced war?
Robert Scheer
Salon Staff
President Bush failed to focus on terrorism prior to 9/11. Instead, his administration pursued the war on drugs -- and even coddled the Taliban.
From swatting flies to stirring up hornets’ nests
Husain Haqqani
A new terrorist document shows that as the U.S. flails in Iraq, only al-Qaida seems to have a strategy.
Inside the ghost town
Phillip Robertson
The silent streets of Baghdad tell an ominous tale: A year after Saddam's fall, the hope and optimism that followed the American invasion are dead.
John Kerry: The video game
Wagner James Au
In "Battlefield Vietnam," a new version of one of the most popular games in the U.S., you too can try to win a Silver Star saving your buddies in the jungle.
Dubya’s angels
Suzy Hansen
Laura Flanders talks about her book "Bushwomen," and why the media has given a free pass to Condi Rice, Christie Whitman, Elaine Chao and the other women who've put a pretty face on ugly policies.
Missing in action
Tim Grieve
As the war in Iraq spins out of control, why isn't John Kerry launching a frontal assault on Bush's failed policies?
Be very afraid
Mark Follman
President Bush has used the politics of fear to sell his policies and stifle opponents. With events turning against him, will that strategy backfire?
The performer lost in her performance
Alan Gilbert
Condoleezza Rice was my graduate student, and a woman raised to excel. But she failed the American people because she forgot a higher duty than excellence: Truth.
Clarke: Condi corroborates my claims
Geraldine Sealey
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