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As the Smoke Clears in Iraq: Even before the spectacular presidential election campaign became a national obsession, and the worst economic crisis…
As the Bush administration was entering office in 2000, Donald Rumsfeld exuberantly expressed its grandiose ambitions for Middle East domination, telling a…
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A tidal wave of misery is engulfing Iraq—and it isn’t the usual violence that Americans are accustomed to hearing about and tuning…
A tidal wave of misery is engulfing Iraq — and it isn’t the usual violence that Americans are accustomed to hearing about…
The best "Top Ten" list for the year 2007 is from Juan Cole: The Top Ten Myths About Iraq. This has been…
Every week or so, the Department of Defense conducts a video-conference press briefing for reporters in Washington, featuring an on-the-ground officer…
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