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Video: McCain’s Straight Talk Express still running off the rails on Iraq War

By Steve Perry | 04.07.08 | 1:15 pm

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…

Press study says coverage of Iraq War has plummeted

By Steve Perry | 04.03.08 | 11:04 am

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,”

Infamous Yoo torture memo is released

By Steve Perry | 04.02.08 | 9:41 am

Backstory: The Bush administration yesterday released the previously classified Justice Department memo from March 14, 2003 that served as the principal legal fig leaf for US torture practices in the handling of detainees in the war on terror. Composed by…

McCain on Iraq: If only I knew now what I didn’t know then

By Steve Perry | 03.31.08 | 11:49 am

The Institute for Public Accuracy has compiled the following list of select pronouncements on the Iraq War by John McCain from 2002 forward:

“I believe that success will be fairly easy.”
– John McCain

Not available in stores: John McCain’s Greatest Hits come to video

By Steve Perry | 03.27.08 | 11:42 am

The front-and-center fight for the Democratic nomination has produced a number of endlessly remarked soundbites that are certain to be used against Barack Obama in a general election race, chief among them the words of Jeremiah Wright and Hillary Clinton’s…

Counting the dead: Mapping the impact on Minnesota

By Dan Haugen | 03.27.08 | 7:44 am

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The number of U.S. military casualties in Iraq recently passed the 4,000 mark. According to the Web site icasualties.org, 59 of those soldiers have come from Minnesota. We’ve plotted data from icasualties.org onto a Google map…

Counting the dead: Minneapolis man marks war dead on garage memorial

By Dan Haugen | 03.26.08 | 4:15 pm

Jim Weber considers it a reminder, not a political statement. The 57-year-old Vietnam veteran and retired postal service worker started tallying U.S. military casualties in Iraq on a three-by-four whiteboard above his garage door in 2003. “At first, I…

Five years later, still no Saddam-al Qaeda link

By Jeff Fecke | 03.11.08 | 11:39 am

According to a report from McClatchy, a Pentagon review of over 600,000 documents seized in Iraq shows no link whatsoever between the regime of Saddam Hussein and the terrorist group al Qaeda.

The documents do show some links…

73 dead in Baghdad bombing

By Jeff Fecke | 02.01.08 | 12:21 pm

73 people died in an explosive attack in Baghdad today, the deadliest attack since the beginning of the U.S. military surge.

According to a report by the Associated Press, the explosives were strapped to two women with Down…

An Open Letter to Al Franken: Why Did You Support the Iraq War?

By Eric Black | 09.12.07 | 8:29 am

Franken_main.jpgDear Al Franken,

Why did you support the Iraq war at the beginning? Why did you trust Colin Powell on the weapons question and not Hans Blix? And when did you change…