Sep 28, 2007
Fifty years after the Korean War, 30,000 U.S. troops are still stationed along the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). President George W. Bush and other senior administration officials have cited Korea as a model for how the United States should shape its long-term presence in Iraq.
Sep 21, 2007
The drumbeat for American action against Iran has steadily grown over the past year. The latest call to arms came during congressional testimony on the situation in Iraq by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
Sep 20, 2007
In his continuing effort to bolster support for the Iraq war, President Bush traveled to Reno, Nevada, on August 28 to speak to the annual convention of the American Legion. He emphatically warned of the Iranian threat should the United States withdraw from Iraq.
Sep 11, 2007
The NIE concludes that the high level of violence found prior to the increase in American forces has been reduced, but that overall violence still remains high, especially against civilian targets.
Sep 11, 2007
In a stunning shift of logic and rhetoric, President Bush recently decided that parallels should be drawn between the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq.
Sep 10, 2007
With the attention of the media and most of the country focused on the report on Iraq being delivered to Congress this week by Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker, the Senate will also be taking up the Pentagon's annual funding legislation.
Sep 7, 2007
This report represents the findings of the General Accountability Office (GAO) from their year long assessment of the 18 benchmarks set down jointly by the Bush and Maliki administrations.
Aug 30, 2007
Having already sacrificed its international and domestic political effectiveness to prolong the ill-fated war in Iraq, the White House now stands poised to throw more money at the problem.
Aug 27, 2007
If the FY 2008 request is approved by Congress, the global war on terror will become the second costliest conflict in U.S. history in inflation-adjusted terms. Only World War II cost more.
Aug 9, 2007
In July, it was announced that the United States plans to sell at least $20 billion in advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia and its neighbors in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Jul 25, 2007
U.N. official Roberta Cohen was right to label the refugee crisis in Iraq "pretty dire."
Jul 19, 2007
We need an Iraq policy with sufficient nuance to protect American interests. Unfortunately, we probably won't get it.
Jul 9, 2007
The 9/11 attack signaled the most serious threat to the security of this nation since World War II. There was an urgent need to clearly define the nature of the threat and take appropriate action; we did neither.
Jun 28, 2007
This week, a Baghdad court convicted Ali Hassan Majid of genocide against the Kurdish people and sentenced him to hang.
May 31, 2007
On May 24, Congress gave overwhelming approval to the Supplemental Appropriations Bill.
Apr 11, 2007
In the fog hovering over congressional debate on Iraq, some Republican war supporters have argued that restrictions on troop deployments are somehow unconstitutional or unprecedented. Surprisingly enough, many Senate Republicans supported the exact same policy during American conflicts in Somalia and Haiti in the 1990s.
Apr 10, 2007
It took 15 years and more than 58,000 American deaths before Congress acted to pull the plug on the disastrous Vietnam War.
Mar 28, 2007
On March 23, after a long, passionate debate, the House of Representatives voted 218-212 to mandate the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq by August 2008.
Mar 12, 2007
Throughout most of the past four years, Republicans imposed a moratorium on substantive debate that caused the vaulted chambers of Capitol Hill to function as little more than an echo chamber for the Administration's Iraq policy.
Mar 9, 2007
There are potential parallels between Vietnam and Iraq we hope never to see.
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