hat tips- The Obama Diary , 3CHICSPOLITICO : The President and First Lady welcome home the troops at Ft. Bragg. President Obama and the Firs...

From Washington Monthly : October 21, 2011 1:35 PM By year’s end, ‘America’s war in Iraq will be over’ By Steve Benen When it comes to the...

PBS Documentary on the often forgotten and often hidden casualties of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. On November 30, 2007, 24-year-ol...

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Eight years ago, when many in the US thought that it really didn't matter who was president and that the country could run on automatic ...

See an excellent website for the National Priorities Project , which explains (in plain terms) how Federal tax dollars are used. They have a...

From CNN.com : Deal would have U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2012 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have reached agreement on a...

Author and Journalist Ron Suskind shows just how far the Bush Administration was willing to go to deceive the American people on Iraq. We ...

I do not need to go to Iraq to understand that Kurds, Sunnis and Shia don't like sharing the region. Just as you don't have to go t...

Just in case you didn't know, the Iraqi PRIME MINISTER - Nouri al-Maliki - has, in essence, given his stamp of approval to Senator Barac...

You may have heard about the massive Isreali wargames conducted earlier this month that were aimed at Iran. But you may not be aware of the...

....And an indefinite U.S. military presence, as part of a proposed "Status of Forces Agreement". See report from McClatchy. Lucki...

Hat tip - DailyKos. From First Read : McCain: Iraq war was for oil? Posted: Friday, May 02, 2008 2:07 PM by Domenico Montanaro Filed Under: ...

Hat tip: HuffingtonPost.com Supplier Under Scrutiny on Arms for Afghans By C. J. CHIVERS Published: March 27, 2008 This article was reported...

U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 4,000 White House calls milestone 'a sober moment' updated 2 hours, 43 minutes ago BAGHDAD - U.S. of...

John McCain recently warned supporters that there would be more wars, and that there would be a continuation of the Bush Administrations Ir...

This is an update of my 2007 MLK Day Post. I Couldn't top my post from last year, so I just decided on the update. There was much more ...