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State of the spy biz
Mark Follman
The patriot
Mary Jacoby
Armed Services chairman John Warner is determined to get to the bottom of the Abu Ghraib scandal -- even if it costs George W. Bush the election.
Wednesday’s mustreads
Geraldine Sealey
Abu Moses
D.N. Rosina
He was a Palestinian commando, and a clown and a cutup -- until one day he made a shattering discovery.
A man for all intrigues
Andrew Cockburn
Iyad Allawi, the new choice to lead Iraq, isn't Ahmed Chalabi -- but that's about the only thing to commend this wily member of the old-boy, CIA-sponsored exile club.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers, both civilian and military, respond to "Rush's Forced Conscripts," by Eric Boehlert. Plus: Did faulty reporting by the Times ultimately lead to unnecessary deaths in Iraq?
Bush’s see-no-evil man in Baghdad
Martin Sieff
John Negroponte, the new ambassador to Iraq, proved usefully blind to the horrors perpetrated by the Honduran government in the '80s. But after Abu Ghraib, he won't be able to cover up this dirty war.
Not fit to print
James C. Moore
How Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraq war lobby used New York Times reporter Judith Miller to make the case for invasion.
“The most dishonest president since Nixon”
Salon Staff
Former Vice President Al Gore blasts George W. Bush for dangerously inept leadership and a foreign policy that has "brought deep dishonor" to the country.
Washington’s Chalabi nightmare
Sidney Blumenthal
One more headache for the besieged Bush administration: The FBI is now interrogating the neocon cronies of Ahmed Chalabi.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
National Review pundits do battle over Bush's Iraq speech; Podhoretz says soldiers like Sivits and England deserve their own torture. Plus: Hitchens tags Michael Moore the ultimate ugly American.
Marching off the cliff
Michal Keeley, Compiled by Mark Follman, Jeff Horwitz
Free-falling in the polls, Bush stayed with the same tough-guy message. But Michael Lind, Karen Kwiatkowski, Ruy Teixeira and others say he landed with a splat, while AEI's Michael Rubin says the speech was "a good start."
A great job?
Joe Conason
Bush is running on empty -- with neocon fantasies, Chalabi's con and bright young right-wingers recruited to run Iraq.
Tuesday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
“Najaf is dying”
Phillip Robertson
A terrified Iraqi bookstore owner denounces the Mahdi Army as "barbarians" as Muqtada al-Sadr prepares for martyrdom at the hands of American troops.
Smiting the infidels
Sidney Blumenthal
Gen. Boykin, the Bible-thumping crank who said Bush "was appointed by God," is at the center of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
Lessons from Vietnam
Geraldine Sealey
The Vietnam investor behind the “Swift Boat Vets” attack
Joe Conason
The group attacking Kerry for his antiwar record is backed by a wealthy veteran who's profiting from his business ties to the Communist regime.
Bush goes back to his base
Geraldine Sealey
Strategic decision
Sidney Blumenthal
Growing sentiment in the Army: Support our troops, impeach Rumsfeld.
The right captures the tube
David Brock
Conservative G.E. head Jack Welch tilted TV right with "The McLaughlin Group." Then a Nixon operative named Roger Ailes signed up with a new channel called Fox.
Time to get out?
Michelle Goldberg
With the war in Iraq turning into a nightmare, increasing numbers -- on the left and the right -- are calling for America to withdraw.
Dukakis-Bush deja vu
Dan Payne
Recalling the presidential race of 1988, the Bush campaign is attacking John Kerry as soft on defense and out of touch with ordinary Americans. And once again, the media are only too happy to join in.
Let’s play: Ask the pollster
Geraldine Sealey
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