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It is official. According to a bipartisan Senate report, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President George W. Bush bear responsibility for the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo and the tossing aside of...
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Insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have intercepted live video feeds from Predator drones, a key weapon in a Pentagon spy system that serves as the military’s...
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There are few people more obnoxious in American public life today than oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens. This dude has an idea, he wants clean energy to sweep America; he...
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Car bombs ripped through downtown Baghdad early Tuesday, killing five and wounding at least 16 people in the latest attack near government buildings in the Iraqi...
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I recently wrote about the closing of alcohol shops in Iraq and how illiberal this is:
the regime demonstrating anti-democratic tendencies, but also religious...
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The broadcasts, heavily edited images of men, some in orange jumpsuits, seated alone against a stark backdrop, did little to answer who was actually behind the attacks....
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Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to parliament and the...
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here on Thursday for talks with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, but the prime minister said he was too busy to see Mr....
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Four people were killed in two blasts in Iraq’s capital Wednesday, a day after a string of suicide bombings killed nearly 130 people and injured more than 400 in...
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The Iraqi capital Baghdad has been hit with several explosions that have left at least 101 people dead and more than 180 people wounded.
Early reports say three...
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Meet Bush’s Iraq Dream: Ayatollah Rule.
As I recently wrote, Bush and the neo-cons promised not only a democracy in Iraq but a model for the rest of the region...
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It is important to remember what Bush and the neo-conservatives promised in Iraq. Not only would Iraq be a flourishing democracy, but it’ll serve as a democratic...
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A suicide bomber has killed a police chief and at least four others during an attack in the Iraqi town of Tikrit, police officials say.
The target of the attack...
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Rising numbers of Iraqi women are being sold into sexual slavery every year because of the waning economy and dire security situation.
Human rights organizations are...
made popular Dec 3 2009
The guns are gradually falling silent in Iraq as a fragile stability takes hold, turning the spotlight on a stealthier killer likely to stalk Iraqis for years to...
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Iraq’s national soccer team has certainly endured hardship. Saddam Hussein had players beaten after losses. And the war that deposed him forced them into exile, after...
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Iraq’s tortuous effort to hold its parliamentary election on schedule in January collapsed Monday, raising the prospect of a political and constitutional crisis next...
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The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as...
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New disclosures about war crimes committed by British army in Iraq are out. A British soldier named Donald Payne revealed some of the crimes committed by the British...
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One of Iraq’s two vice-presidents has vetoed part of the country’s new election law, putting the parliamentary polls scheduled for January in doubt.
Tariq...
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New disclosures about war crimes committed by British army in Iraq are out. A British soldier named Donald Payne revealed some of the crimes committed by the British...
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In the White House, we have always known that President George W. Bush and his Press Secretary are like two sides of the same coin. One is a dumb lying ass of a man who...
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I really wish this post was a satire. But sadly, it’s not.
As Republicans blocked a full-fledged Senate debate over Iraq on Monday, the Democrats vowed they...
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