Ugly truths about Iraq
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IT SHOULD not be surprising that a classified National Intelligence Estimate completed late last month projects three scenarios for Iraq over the next year and a half that range from dicey to disastrous -- from fragile stability to civil war among Sunni
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Ed Firmage expertly explained the insanity, butchery, futility and even criminality of the current Iraq war (My View, Dec. 12). He could have added a comment about the illegality of the executive branch fighting a war that Congress never declared.
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A look at what lawmakers are saying about the Iraq war:
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Two nonprofit journalism groups found that the Bush Administration issued hundreds of falsehoods about the threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks
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Quotes from Wednesday's House debate on Iraq:
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The distinction between what politicians say on the campaign trail and what they really believe is well illustrated by the current Kerry-Bush skirmishing on Iraq: If either man really believes some of the things he&#39;s saying, we&#39;re in worse shape than we
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The fighting in Fallujah, and daily terrorist attacks by Saddam loyalists and Islamist extremists, paint a grim picture of today&#39;s Iraq.
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The Swift Boat saga is beginning to wear thin on the nerves of the American people. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads questioning Sen. John Kerryâs war record -- and pundits debating the issue ad nauseam
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The hypocrisy is unpardonable. President Bush's decision to commute the sentence of a convicted liar brought out the worst in both parties and politics.
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Outside, they're calling for his head. Politicians, authors and columnists, and a few former generals. They are an angry, noisy bunch. They say he should have quit or been fired long ago. They say he's to blame for what is happening now in Iraq, didn't listen, and must be held to account.
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Predators know to hunt the weakest animal in the herd. So do the Iraqi insurgents. It is an essential truth about the Iraq war that&#39;s ingrained in soldiers like Pvt.
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Lies from the White House. Incompetence in treating wounded veterans. Irrelevance in Congress. Can't anybody do anything right? It's days like these that turn Americans sour on government, stoking a desire for leaders who actually lead.
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A new Powell biography is among the latest accounts of the divisions within the Bush administration over the Iraq war.
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Iraq is a quagmire, steadily getting worse, as anyone who reads the newspaper knows. Attacks against US forces, our allies, and Iraqis seen to be collaborating with us, are on the rise, alarmingly so.
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Comparing the Administration's war rationale to the facts on the ground
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One of these guys has to be lying, and one of them has to be telling the truth. Either the war in Iraq is going splendidly - or it&#39;s not.
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By David Paul Kuhn. By Dick Meyer. By Dotty Lynch. By Bob Schieffer. (CBS/AP) It was not the way President Bush wanted to start the final week of his campaign -- with more bad news from Iraq