Tag: Iraq War

Beltway Confidential

Dick Cheney is back to blast ‘isolationists’ on left and right

Blake Seitz · July 14, 2014 10:20 pm

This image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. A video posted online Saturday purports to show the leader of the Islamic State extremist group that has overrun much of Syria and Iraq delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq, in what would be a rare - if not the first - public appearance by the shadowy militant. (AP Photo/Militant video)

Iraq analyzing tape purported to show top militant

Sinan Salaheddin · July 6, 2014 7:22 pm

You can consider the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria a terrorist organization, but you can also consider it a particularly murderous and oppressive state. Which is it? (AP PHoto)

First Gulf War in 1991 was America’s opening Iraq mistake

Gene Healy · June 30, 2014 5:00 pm

Here’s why Democrats don’t want to talk about Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 30, 2014 9:00 am

National Security

Marine who disappeared in Iraq in 2004 back in US

Robert Burns · June 29, 2014 4:53 pm

U.S. paratroopers dash across clearing to helicopters that will lift them out of this section of jungle in War Zone C in Vietnam in March 1967 and drop them in another to continue their pursuit of the Viet Cong along the Cambodian border.

Iraq and the echoes of Vietnam

Steve Chapman · June 26, 2014 3:06 pm

Iraqi civilians inspect the aftermath of a car bombing in the southeastern district of New Baghdad, Iraq. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)

10 reasons why Iraq’s bloodbath is not George W. Bush’s fault

Larry Elder · June 25, 2014 7:21 pm

Al Qaeda-inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 155 miles north of Baghdad, in this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo, File)

The Iraq War was a bipartisan disaster

Gene Healy · June 23, 2014 9:43 pm

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Has American fracking doomed Iraq?

Arthur Herman · June 20, 2014 6:47 pm

President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media about the situation in Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. In the strongest sign yet of U.S. doubts about Iraq's stability, the Obama administration is weighing whether to press the Shiite prime minister in Baghdad to step down in a last-ditch effort to prevent disgruntled Sunnis from igniting a full-scale civil war. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

5 facts about the new U.S. mission in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 20, 2014 12:55 pm

President Obama announced plans to send a team of U.S. military advisers to Iraq to try help the country's security forces beat back an al Qaeda-inspired insurgency gaining ground across large swaths of the country. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama: U.S. will send small team of military advisers to Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 19, 2014 6:37 pm

This undated file Image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Iraq is broken, we can’t fix it and there’s no good reason to try

Jed Babbin · June 18, 2014 9:00 pm