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Update : Obama marks D-Day's 65th anniversary at Omaha Beach, France. "Don't forget ... ." Today is June 6. My girlfriend ...

From the Middle East online : BAGHDAD – When an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at George W. Bush last month at a Baghdad press conference...

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It’s no surprise that Bush, Cheney and their supporters are so intent on controlling the images and impressions coming out of their Iraq Wa...

Patrick Cockburn has an insightful analysis from Iraq. See Special Report from the Battlefields, Who's Actually Winning in Iraq? Bush...

McCain and Bush stress the improvements that our illegal invasion and occupation are bringing to Iraq. But the facts are leaking out, for t...

Asked about American troops remaining in Iraq for decades, Senator John McCain said, "No, but that's not too important. What's ...

How can a complete whack like the Rev. John Hagee whose endorsement of and political relationship with John McCain are a matter of public re...

via mal contends Comes up every once in a while. My girlfriend so proud of her dad talking about what she knew of her late father's serv...

No one is mistaking the Bush-Cheney chickenhawks for people who give a damn, but Bush' idiotic war is taking its toll our serving troops...

Good piece by Scott Horton at Harper's . "... starting with the media’s own framing of the question: “Is the surge working?” The qu...

The never-ending but always changing reasons offered by the administration and its political allies why we need to continue the occupation o...

So when does incompetent, lying, and cowardly behavior make one a Vince Lombardi ? Having lied their way to war, and disgraced the sacrifice...

Imagine the audacity of Al Jazeera and other Middle Eastern media to object to being invaded and occupied. Here's an uppity Al Jazeera...

Update : Obama Delivers Speech on 5th Anniversary of Iraq War Listening to Bush at the Pentagon this morning on the fifth anniversary of the...

Juan Cole has good piece in Salon. How President Bush and his advisors have spent each year of the war peddling mendacious tales about a mis...

From ABC News : Admiral William Fallon, the top U.S. military commander for the Middle East, is resigning, citing a magazine article in whi...

by Nir Rosen in Rolling Stone It's a cold, gray day in December, and I'm walking down Sixtieth Street in the Dora district of Baghda...

Yuck. McCain is desperate to portray himself as a bigoted, fear-mongering know-nothing, someone CPAC and the Council for National Policy can...

Update : Barack Obama's video response to Bush . No one expected George W. Bush to burst forth with a candid speech last night. And Bush...