Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: World. September 3, 2009. "I don't think you guys get back your credibility on national security until you realize that [going to war] was a wrong decision."
Maya Schenwar, TruthOut.org. August 5, 2009. On July 30th, a public referendum was supposed to give Iraqis a chance to vote on a deadline for U.S. withdrawal. It never happened.
Jodie Evans, AlterNet. July 31, 2009. Biden should quit his war talk and call for diplomacy, development, and accountability Afghanistan and Iraq that the US supports.
Cynthia Hubert, TruthOut.org. June 12, 2009. "I saw things today that I think will mess me up for life," Army Spc. Trevor Hogue wrote to his mother from Baghdad in 2007.
Abeer Mohammed, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. June 4, 2009. Few believe the capital is reverting to an earlier era of sectarian violence, but most accept that bloodshed will plague Iraq for years to come.
Marcy Wheeler, Salon. May 22, 2009. The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: Video. April 16, 2009. With over 33,000 troops injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, we must commit more resources and services to vets.
Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: Media and Technology. March 19, 2009. Today marks six years since former President Bush launched the invasion of Iraq.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. February 28, 2009. Obama's speech promising a full withdrawal from Iraq adopted the long-discredited narrative of the Bush administration.
Dahr Jamail, Tomdispatch.com. February 14, 2009. Fallujah remains devastated, even as the U.S. military delivers shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills to the sheiks in charge.
Renee Feltz, Indypendent. February 10, 2009. A new book on Halliburton looks at how a symbol of epic fraud in Iraq achieved so little with so much money.
John Tirman, The Nation. February 2, 2009. Now that Bush is gone, perhaps we can honestly face the damage we have wrought and the responsibilities we must accept from it.
Antiwar.comJanuary 12, 2009. Nearly the size of Vatican City, the new U.S. compound sends a stark message: Washington expects to be Iraq's boss, not its friend.
Sarah Lazare, AlterNet. January 8, 2009. Shepherd has been living underground in Germany for nearly two years; he applied for refugee status on the grounds that the Iraq War is illegal.
Bruce Ackerman, Oona Hathaway, The Daily Beast. January 3, 2009. Ongoing combat in Iraq is illegal under US law. As of January 1, Congress' authorization of the war expired.
Adam Morrow, Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, IPS News. December 23, 2008. Critics in Iraq and beyond say the much ballyhooed SOFA is riddled with loopholes and above all else, a reflection of U.S. strategic interests.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Independent UK. December 23, 2008. Words cannot do justice to the rage of Iraqis at the renewed arrogance of those who devastated their country and now congratulate themselves.
Staff, CODEPINK Women for Peace: Action Blog AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 17, 2008. CODEPINK takes action to support al-Zaidi and his anti-war sentiment.
