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Video: Everything John McCain knows about Iraq is wrong, part 47

By Steve Perry | 05.30.08 | 3:10 pm

John McCain — who in the past few months has made a number of flatly false claims about the Iraq War (most memorably, about Shi’ite Iran training Sunni al Qaeda members, and the terms of the…

Video: The DC press corps would like to remind Scott McClellan that nobody likes a tattletale

By Steve Perry | 05.29.08 | 1:00 pm

There’s something mordantly funny about watching the stenographers and voice talent of the Washington press corps fulminate about Scott McClellan’s admissions regarding the paper-thin pretexts on which the Iraq War was sold by the White House. You…

October Surprise? Jerusalem Post says Bush wants to attack Iran before his term ends

By Steve Perry | 05.20.08 | 9:19 am

From today’s JPost: “US President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran in the upcoming months, before the end of his term, Army Radio quoted a senior official in Jerusalem as saying Tuesday. The official claimed that…

MinMon interview: Tomas Young of ‘Body of War’ continues his fight

By Molly Priesmeyer | 05.16.08 | 1:03 pm

The critically acclaimed documentary Body of War, a film co-directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue, opens Friday at the Lagoon Cinema. The film contains moments that are profound and heartbreaking, not only because of…

Media blackout: The Iraq War rages on

By Molly Priesmeyer | 05.15.08 | 4:17 pm

President Bush must be thanking his dim stars that the Democratic election has become so heated it’s taken precedence over any news about the ongoing Iraq quagmire. In fact, one the biggest Iraq stories in the news this…

“Mission Accomplished” anniversary brings protesters to call on Norm

By Paul Demko | 05.01.08 | 3:52 pm

Protesters gathered outside Sen. Norm Coleman’s office this afternoon to mark the fifth anniversary of President Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” photo-op aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

“Five years later mothers and fathers are still welcoming their children…

NYT: Pentagon directed military talking heads who ‘analyzed’ war for networks

By Steve Perry | 04.21.08 | 12:07 pm

It should come as little shock that the Pentagon’s embedding strategy for the press goes both ways. Sunday’s New York Times contained a mammoth, 7500-word David Barstow article revealing the workings of a Pentagon program devoted…

The Schultz Report: What if Petraeus said the surge wasn’t working and no one noticed?

By Steve Perry | 04.11.08 | 10:58 am

PhotobucketIn this Friday’s edition of our weekly Schultz Report, political analyst David Schultz expresses surprise over the way media has covered Gen. David Petraeus’ testimony this week before Congress. “If you listen to what…

MinMon video: GAO says stolen military items being sold on eBay, Craigslist

By Dan Haugen | 04.11.08 | 9:23 am

The Government Accountability Office says stolen military equipment is turning up for sale on Web sites including eBay and Craigslist. A report released Thursday raises concerns that the not-for-public items might be sold to enemies, who could take…

Video: McCain, incredibly, flubs Sunni/Shia distinction again

By Steve Perry | 04.08.08 | 1:39 pm

Via Steve Benen at Salon’s War Room blog, John McCain slipped up yet again on the pesky Sunni/Shia distinction earlier today — this time while questioning Gen. David Petraeus in a Senate hearing on the…