TagsTagsWhere does GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney stand on foreign policy? That's a question that even his advisers are asking. He went and said that we shouldn't negotiate with the Taliban and that we should defeat the Taliban, even as many of his advisers and supporters are looking at a ...
Mitt Romney, Foreign Policy, 2012 Elections, Diplomacy, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons, China, Russia, USA
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday in a speech at West Point that getting into any more wars like Iraq or Afghanistan would be crazy. WEST POINT, N.Y. — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets on Friday that it would be unwise for ...
Robert Gates, Defense Secretary, Military, Iraq, Afghanistan
Disgraced former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who played a huge role in promoting fictions about Iraq's WMD capabilities, has landed at one of the looniest right wing magazines in America: Newsmax. Miller will be sharing the pages of Newsmax with such luminaries of the right wing as Pamela "Shrieking ...
The decision by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to release hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq War documents has led to a series of high level resignations at Wikileaks, by staffers who believe the documents have not been properly redacted to remove the names of collaborators and informers: Unpublished Iraq War ...
President Obama's speech on the drawdown of US troops in Iraq is about to start; Sarah Palin started attacking it before it began, with a hilariously illiterate reference to George Orwell: Sarah Palin. When asked, "Which book by George Orwell is your favorite?" Palin replied, "All of them!" Ahem. Anyway, here's live ...
The last official combat troops are now leaving Iraq. It's the end of a long, grueling mission for the US military, and we thank them sincerely for their service and their sacrifices. It remains to be seen whether the people of Iraq will be able to take advantage of the opportunity ...
The Iranian government has been holding three American activists for an entire year, accusing them of espionage. Barrett Brown has more details: Iran Has Detained Three Americans for a Year. This Friday a demonstration is planned in New York City to bring more attention to these US citizens held captive by ...
There was good news from Iraq yesterday; the US announced through Vice President Joe Biden that the two most senior leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who masterminded numerous terrorist attacks against Iraqis and Americans, have been terminated in a joint effort by Iraqi and US security forces: Statement by ...
Editor of Wikileaks Julian Assange defends his decision to publish the Apache helicopter attack video; and Stephen Colbert asks tough questions. [Video]
Iraq, Military, War Crimes, Video, Wikileaks, Stephen Colbert, Julian Assange
There’s a lot of buzz on the web about this video released today by Wikileaks, showing a 2007 incident in Iraq in which a Reuters cameraman was killed by fire from an Apache helicopter, along with several other people. After the initial shooting, a group of adults and children arrive ...
Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter was a fierce critic of President Clinton for not being tougher on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but suddenly had a radical change of opinion about the dangers of Hussein immediately before the Iraq War. He became a very outspoken antiwar activist, turning ...
Iraq, Iraq War, Anti-war, Scott Ritter, Pennsylvania, United Nations, Crime
Here’s Sarah Palin making her debut on Fox News, admitting that during the lead-up to her 2008 vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden she “questioned” whether Iraq might have been responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks. (This is the second half of her appearance on the O’Reilly show.) [Video] Interviewed by Fox ...
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Now that Afghanistan and Iraq are Barack Obama’s problems, it’s suddenly becoming fashionable for right-wing pundits to call for cutting and running. Days after urging the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan, conservative columnist George F. Will is calling on the administration to speed up the planned drawdown in ...
Michael Totten continues his must-read series on The Future of Iraq, Part IV. I don’t think many Iraqis today are afraid of the state. But everybody was terrified of Saddam Hussein’s totalitarian government. Speaking their minds could get them imprisoned or killed. It could get an entire family dragged off ...
Robert Spencer is mixing it up with Michael J. Totten and Mary Madigan at Totten’s pad. Totten asks Spencer a good question about his announced participation in the “Pro-Koln” conference — a question I’ve brought up as well: If the nutjobs in Cologne did nothing but invite Pamela, why did they ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom
Michael J. Totten answers an attack from anti-Islam zealot Andrew Bostom: Arguing for Uncertainty. Andrew Bostom – pal of Robert Spencer and the deranged Pamela Geller – bizarrely accuses me of being an uninformed dogmatist for publishing a “roseate view” of Iraq, even though my article in question was dedicated ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom
Michael J. Totten calls out Robert Spencer for a particularly uninformed comment about Iraq: We Are Not at War with Nouri al-Maliki. Robert Spencer, founder and lead writer for Jihad Watch, has a bit of trouble telling the difference between friend and foe in Iraq and still thinks, despite everything, ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer
Part three of Michael Totten’s must-read series on The Future of Iraq: The United States has basically won the war in Iraq. No insurgent or terrorist group can declare victory or claim Americans are evacuating Iraq’s cities because they were beaten. America’s most modest foreign policy objectives there have been ...
Lynndie England, the woman seen abusing Iraqi prisoners in the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs, is not sorry about anything — and she says she has 800 more pictures from her time in Iraq that would be very damaging to the Army and the White House if released. (She’s selling a ...
Michael J. Totten has posted the second part of his look at The Future of Iraq. A must-read, for the kind of reporting the mainstream media no longer does. The first time I visited Baghdad, I only stayed for a week. The place stressed me out. The surge was only ...
Here’s Jerry Weinberger’s Iraq Journal, on a visit to Saddam’s chamber of horrors. There is nothing cold about the faces one sees on the walls of the Red Museum, where from 1979 until the uprising in 1991, Saddam tortured and killed in pursuit of the Kurdish rebels. Though Saddam usually ...
Michael Totten has posted the first of a four-part series exploring the big issue on everyone’s minds: The Future of Iraq. Iraq has never been successfully governed by anyone but a strongman. You might even say Iraq has never been successfully governed at all. Who today sincerely believes the use ...
Another great piece from Iraq by Michael J. Totten: Sadr City After the Fall. The way into Sadr City itself was from Combat Outpost (COP) Ford, a one-company base wedged between Sadr City and the adjacent Beida neighborhood. Captains Todd Looney and A.J. Boyes ran the company, and they were ...
Another terrific report from Iraq by Michael J. Totten: Baghdad in Fragments. Many third world cities look better at night than during the day. Darkness hides shabbiness. You have to imagine what the city actually looks like. If you live in a first world city yourself, you might fill in ...