February 2006
The New Yorker: The Memo by Jane Mayer
by mikepower
How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.
TomPaine.com - Washington's Iraq Blindness
by mikepower
The Iraq that exists in President Bush’s imagination and the real Iraq, the one in which 160,000 U.S. troops occupy a nation sliding into civil war, have never seemed further apart.
January 2006
The Village Voice: The Bush Beat
by mikepower
A year after tearfully accepting a Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush for his disastrous reign in Iraq, preposterous pasha Jerry Bremer has rewritten history with a ghosted "diary" and started a book tour by saying, "I didn't do it."
December 2005
Iraq's Death Squads
by mikepower
OF ALL THE bloodshed in Iraq, none may be more disturbing than the campaign of torture and murder being conducted by U.S.-trained government police forces.
August 2005
How to Win in Iraq - Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.
by mikepower
U.S. forces in Iraq have failed to defeat the insurgency or improve security. Winning will require a new approach to counterinsurgency, one that focuses on providing security to Iraqis
Sickening story in The Washington Post
by mikepower
Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs: Interrogated General's Sleeping-Bag Death, CIA's Use of Secret Iraqi Squad Are Among Details
July 2005
Iraqi Casualties: Unnamed and Unnoticed
by mikepower
An in-depth look at how we have treated Iraqi civilian deaths by veteran war reporter Judith Coburn
June 2005
Three Things About Iraq - NYT
by mikepower
If the war is going according to plan, someone needs to rethink the plan.
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