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Candidates, bloggers to announce major national security plan

By Joe Bodell | 03.16.08 | 11:23 am

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…

Bush ‘envious’ of troops in Afghanistan, calls their work ‘romantic’

By Jeff Fecke | 03.14.08 | 12:05 pm

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…

Iraq War: Are we winning yet?

By Molly Priesmeyer | 03.12.08 | 12:12 pm

March marks the five-year anniversary of the Iraq War, aka “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” As winter recedes and roads open up again in Iraq, we learn that violence is again increasing, as it has every year around this time.…

Ellison to Bush: “Stimulate the economy by ending the war”

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.29.08 | 4:35 pm

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., personalized his response to Monday’s State of the Union speech by comparing George W. Bush’s $150 billion economic stimulus package with the cost of the war in Iraq. Taxpayers in Minnesota alone forked over $11…

Contractor made millions claiming Army stripes

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.17.08 | 1:24 pm

A private security firm that has been raking in government contracts in Iraq and got $10 million in tax abatements to set up shop in Michigan is headed by a CEO who appears to

Bush’s Clintonian Parsing

By Eric Black | 12.07.07 | 8:36 am

Bush_Cheney.jpgAs I see people compiling lists of things President Bush and Vice President Cheney said about Iran — after they had been alerted by their intelligence chief of new evidence that an Iranian nuclear weapons program had halted…

Coleman Attacks Franken on Iraq

By Eric Black | 12.03.07 | 11:57 am

The Norm Coleman reelection campaign this morning unveiled a web video designed to portray Al Franken’s position on Iraq over the years as a mess of contradictions. You can view the video here.

At…

Former Chisago County Sheriff’s Deputy Killed in Iraq

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.28.07 | 5:37 pm

William Juneau, a 36-year-old Rush City resident with 10 years of law enforcement experience in Minnesota, was killed in Iraq Monday by an improvised explosive device. An international police advisor for DynCorp International,…

Beyond Bullets: A top war correspondent discusses the human side of the news

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.25.07 | 9:41 am

Janine di Giovanni‘s stories captivate: A New Jersey-born war correspondent now living in Paris, she’s stared down government guns — quite literally — during a coup attempt in Ivory Coast, walked among towering walls of corpses after a cholera…

Journalism’s Bloodiest War

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.19.07 | 3:18 pm

Deadliest war ever: For journalists, Iraq has been the bloodiest conflict in history, with three times as many reporters killed than during both World Wars combined. Whereas two died in WWI, 68 in WWII, 77…