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Betrayed
Sidney Blumenthal
Christopher Hitchens called me "cousin" and proclaimed that "we love each other." Then he turned on me in a last-minute gambit to convict the president. Part 5 of "The Clinton Wars."
“Someone should just obliterate my country”
Suzy Hansen
The director of "Afghan Stories" talks about life in the final days of Taliban rule.
The 77-percent solution
Arianna Huffington
While Karl Rove crows over Bush's postwar approval rating, the latest numbers are lower than you'd think.
The Bush economy doesn’t play in Peoria
Patrick Arden
The president says a big tax cut for the rich will create jobs for the hard-hit middle class. In this city of faded glory, few believe him.
Thank you, Sen. Santorum
Bruce Bawer
Now I remember -- without the rosy post-9/11 patriotism coloring my view -- why I had to leave the United States.
The world press on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
Canadian doctors describe the difficulties of getting humanitarian aid into Baghdad.
Would you buy a U.S. foreign policy from this man?
Jake Tapper
Why the State Department's propaganda campaign to win the hearts and minds of Arabs and Muslims is a mess.
Move over, Saddam
Tina Brown
War coverage loses traction -- and makes way for Jessica Lynch, Laci Peterson and the male rescue fantasy.
Dodging bombs for peace
Michelle Goldberg
Stationed in Iraq to witness the American invasion, these activists tell a different brand of war story.
Open warfare
Salon Staff
Pentagon ally Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, calls Colin Powell's State Department "a clear disaster."
Propaganda or journalism?
Anthony York
Congress believes a U.S. government-run TV network can deliver independent news to an Arab audience -- and make them like us, too.
The dangers of democracy
Michelle Goldberg
This season's intellectual pinup, Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Future of Freedom," explains why the romantic myth of freedom could harm Iraq -- and why power elites aren't so bad.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
The pilot protests the destruction of a defenseless Iraqi airliner. Plus: Geeky details about flaps, ailerons, spoilers and slats. But not flaperons.
“Empire” by Niall Ferguson
Farhad Manjoo
In Niall Ferguson's new book, the British Empire was a good thing for everybody -- and the American empire now being born should take lessons from our stiff-upper-lipped forebears.
Heat-packing journalists
Christopher Orlet
Thanks to CNN, journalists approaching military checkpoints are now presumed armed -- if not dangerous.
Baghdad did not fall — it was handed over
Jalal Ghazi
The Arabic media is rife with speculation that the Saudi regime brokered a secret deal between the White House and Iraq's ruling party.
The war over the peace
Michelle Goldberg
The Pentagon, the State Department and the U.N. are fighting over who controls postwar Iraq. It's a battle that could be more critical than the military campaign.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Salon foreign correspondent Phillip Robertson's coverage of the war in Iraq.
The last place we liberated
Jake Tapper
The White House calls Afghanistan a success story. But the failure to commit needed resources has left it a chaotic, increasingly dangerous country where violent warlords run amok. Are we going to repeat our mistake in Iraq?
“It’s a catastrophe for tyranny. It’s a great day”
Suzy Hansen
Pro-war liberal Paul Berman celebrates the fall of Baghdad. But the real fight for Iraqi freedom, he warns, lies ahead -- and will take years.
A battlefield far from the front
Mike McPhate, Jessi Hempel
With the anger of the Muslim world focused on Iraq, jihadis extend the war to volatile Kashmir -- leaving 24 Hindus dead and hope deeply strained.
“Am-ri-ka! Am-ri-ka! Am-ri-ka!”
Phillip Robertson
After suffering years of Saddam's ethnic cleansing and a night of U.S. bombing, the residents of Mahad greet Americans with chants and stories and shouts of joy.
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