March 2006
The White House That Cried Wolf
by mikepower
Faced with the unappetizing reality of Iraq, Bush and Rove are relying on that grand old reliable strategy—attack the media. It doesn’t play as well as it used to. Everyone who wants an alternative reality is already watching Fox News.
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.
Educators face blowback for protesting Iraq war
by mikepower
Just over three years ago, as the nation readied for war with Iraq, elementary school teacher Deb Mayer stood in front of her class and uttered the word that would get her blacklisted from her profession - 'Peace'
Winston-Salem Journal | Fatal motorcycle accidents are epidemic in troops returning from war zones
by mikepower
More US troops have died in off-duty motorcycle accidents since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, than have been killed in combat in Afghanistan over that same time, according to safety records.
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.
December 2005
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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