The Surge or the Surge?
When McCain went on CBS, he completely bungled the facts about the surge and demonstrated that he had no idea of how the the counterinsurgency or Anbar Awakening played out.
When McCain went on CBS, he completely bungled the facts about the surge and demonstrated that he had no idea of how the the counterinsurgency or Anbar Awakening played out.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
For all of my ideological differences with the man, I've always appreciated the way MSNBC's Joe Scarborough has seemed to applaud and encourage people...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
In a quote to the AP, John McCain's rapid response man delivered the campaign's first reaction to the news that the Arizona Republican bungled the his...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
***UPDATED BELOW*** During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made a stone cold error on a subject about which he claims expert knowledge: the "...
AFP | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics
Hundreds of members of an anti-Al-Qaeda front in Iraq's central city of Baquba on Friday donned keffiyeh headdresses and took to the streets demanding...
Michael Schwartz | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
The Iraq myth I find most galling is that the surge has led to the pacification of large parts of Anbar province and Baghdad.
NYT | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics
CAPT. SEAN MILLER shook his head like a big brother. He and his marines had just walked by a cluster of large orange garbage bins, American-bought, fr...
Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see t...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
The Iraqi death toll is five times more than the estimates of killings in Darfur and even more than the genocide in Rwanda 13 years ago. Is Washington responsible for a holocaust in Iraq?
Huda Ahmed | Posted 09.20.2007 | Politics
The added security does not appear to be the result of Gen. Petraeus' surge, but rather because the militias of both sides have no reason to fight.
Bill Curry | Posted 09.19.2007 | Politics
In a reasoned and informed debate the "success stories" of Baghdad and Anbar would be seen for what they are -- two more arguments for getting out.
Katie Halper | Posted 09.19.2007 | Politics
This video report by Rick Rowley, an independent filmmaker, presents a very different picture of the Anbar Awakening.
Michael Shaw | Posted 09.18.2007 | Media
Did George Bush effectively "off" an ally -- and even undermine his Anbar strategy -- for the sake of the "surge sale" and a single photo-op?
Cenk Uygur | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics
Does Bush not want to hear from Admiral Fallon? Doesn't he care what his top commander thinks? Or is it that he has already heard from Fallon and wants to make sure we don't hear from him?
Cenk Uygur | Posted 09.05.2007 | Politics
Our strategy in the Anbar province has nothing to do with the surge. It doesn't involve more U.S. troops. It involves less U.S. troops!
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Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics