Iraq

Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton will be the keynote speaker at tonight’s annual dinner  for the conservative policy institute Center of the American Experiment (CAE) at the St. Paul River Centre. Bolton has recently been working the media circuit and discussing the many benefits of U.S. air strikes against Iran.

According to the CAE event description, [...]

Apparently the banner was too small. Five years ago today, when the president swooped in, all flight-suit-clad, to the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and declared before a gigantic sign marked “Mission Accomplished” that major combat operations in Iraq were over, that’s what he meant, according  to White House press secretary Dana Perino. (Sen. [...]

Today, citizens across the nation will pause in recognition of the five-year anniversary of President Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech and then slap their foreheads or simply try to think about something else. Locally, we can reflect on former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s address before the conservative think tank Center of the American Experiment’s [...]

In an excellent letter to the editor of the New York Times, Sen. John Edwards calls the paper to task for failing to report on the real human impact of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He takes issue with writer Lawrence Downes for not detailing the real number of casualties. And he rebukes the media [...]

Edina-based Alliant Techsystems (ATK), the largest supplier of small-caliber ammunition to the United States military, has announced that it delivered 1.4 billion rounds to the military for FY 2008 and projects another 1.4 billion military rounds for FY 2009. The latest delivery numbers were accompanied by the announcement of a $415.6 million contract for additional [...]

Barack Obama is a “conventional liberal” whose “habit of spouting internationalist bromides suggests little affinity for serious realism,” yet he’s the best presidential candidate conservatives have got, according to Andrew J. Bacevich of The American Conservative.

An author, Boston University international relations professor and self-described “Catholic conservative,” Bacevich (pictured) writes that the “Republican Party does not [...]

It had to happen: The fumbled invasion of Iraq has eventually turned into a five-year-old war made up of mistakes and misleading information. Today, on the anniversary of the invasion, it’s still a petulant and fully loaded child: The majority of Americans don’t want it, and John McCain doesn’t even understand it. Poor Iraq.

Here, then, [...]

In addition to the 10 original cosigners, seven more Democratic congressional candidates from around the nation have signed on to the Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq.

The Responsible Plan, touted as a progressive Contract with America, was unveiled this week at the Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C. The plan includes several [...]

A group of Democratic congressional candidates is set to roll out a comprehensive plan to change the policy dialog on national security and the continuing occupation of Iraq.

The announcement was made Sunday by Darcy Burner (pictured), a candidate for Congress in Washington’s 8th Congressional district, and Matt Stoller, who blogs at OpenLeft.com, at a blogger [...]

George W. Bush videoconferenced with military and civilian personnel in Afghanistan Thursday morning. “I must say, I’m a little envious,” he said. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed.”

When Bush was younger and [...]