Iraq War

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 a senior member of the president’s entourage, which concluded a trip to Israel last week, said during a [...]

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 the compelling subject matter — an injured soldier’s struggle — but also because Iraq veteran Tomas Young (pictured) allows us [...]

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 week came only when Bush told reporters he gave up golf because of the Iraq War. [...]

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 home in bodybags,” said Muriel K. Vaughan, of Women’s Political Alliance.”Norm Coleman must denounce this endless war and demand [...]

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 to assuring that only the Bush administration’s point of view ever gets represented by all the military analysts and [...]

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 Petraeus said, the surge failed,” he says. “It essentially failed. In his testimony, he talked about a variety of factors that [...]

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 them apart, figure out how they work, and use it against us. For more, watch the video [...]

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 war.

“Do you still view al Qaeda in Iraq as a major threat?” McCain asks Petraeus.

“It is still a major threat, [...]

Yesterday on Fox News, John McCain once again put his foot where his military and foreign policy expertise are supposed to be, flubbing a discussion of the ceasefire in Basra last week by asserting it was insurgent chieftain Moqtada al-Sadr, and not Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, who sought the ceasefire.

The gaffe followed by a [...]

The Project for Excellence in Journalism has published a telling chart that measures the steady decline in media coverage of the Iraq War since the start of 2007. One culprit: the presidential sweepstakes. “In the last quarter of 2007,” write Tricia Sartor and Mark Jurkowitz, “coverage of the war diminished as coverage of another major [...]