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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A febrile blend of facts, liberal outrage and emotional manipulation, Robert GreenwaldÂs documentary examines the role of private contractors in Iraq.
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President Bush is still refusing to acknowledge the failings that plague the war in Iraq. His revisions of recent history have grown so brazen that he is now handing out awards -- big awards -- to some of the men who have helped him execute the war.
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Yesterday, former top US central banker Alan Greenspan, a very respected public official, said: "I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows -- the Iraq war is largely about oil." Dale Bumpers, former US Senator from Arkansas, defended President Bill Clinton when he was on trial. He said, memorably: "H.L. Mencken said one time, 'When you hear somebody say, This is not about money, it's about money.' And when you hear somebody say, 'This is not about sex,' it's about sex." Bumpers might say today: When you hear somebody say the war in Iraq is not about oil, it's about oil. And Greenspan was absolutely right. Everyone knows that so many US trops and so much US money would not be deployed in Iraq if it weren't in the middle of the oil reserves of the world and if Iraq itself didn't have so much oil. It's ridiculous to argue otherwise. Yet, this admission is causing a major recalc in US political discourse. Had Greenspan said something so obviously true in 2003 or 2004, we might have avoided this national catastrophe. And I think this says more about us, and our desire to be misled, to have our lives simplified, to delegate our intellectual existence. Yes, our troops are there because of the oil. Don't doubt it. Postscript: The Bumpers speech is worth watching again, for its eloquence and simplicity. It wasn't so long ago that we rose to this level.
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IraqÂs Sunni-Shiite bloodletting is driving many Iraqis to bury the very essence of their identity: their names.
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Comment is free: Christopher Hitchens: The Presidents's crass comparison between Iraq and war in south east Asia was the most ludicrous misreading of history.
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Some demographics and details about public opinion on the war in Iraq.
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No doubt some will say the Jakarta bomb is a vicious retort to Howard&#39;s Iraq policy. It requires a medieval mindset to conceive of the sort of savagery the world witnessed in Beslan.
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Vastly different views on Iraq show the sharp distinctions between Bush and Kerry.
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Description: A classified cable written by the CIA&#39;s outgoing station chief in Baghdad, the contents of which were reported in The New York Times, paints a bleak future for Iraq.
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An eyewitness account of the vicious battle to retake the  Iraqi city
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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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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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Key figures about Iraq since the war began in March 2003
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Some days it&#39;s hard to imagine how the news from Iraq can get any worse, although it has a way of doing just that with unsettling regularity.
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A day after a Pentagon report described spreading sectarian violence and increasingly complex security problems in Iraq, President Bush painted a rosier picture.
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Just when President Bush was trying to accentuate the positive in Iraq and declare a new beginning in the war on terror, a rash of bad news comes from multiple fronts in the global struggle.