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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In 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…
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…
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…
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