Jodie Evans, AlterNet. October 8, 2009. Afghan Parliament member Roshanak Wardak speaks out: Most of the women do not want more troops -- they need support to sustain their lives.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. September 9, 2009. Maintenance cost for the force of 450,000 Afghan soldiers and police U.S. generals dream of creating: approximately 500% of the Afghan budget.
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. August 17, 2009. The American military withdrawal is stabilizing Iraq to a degree the neocons who got us into this war could never admit to.
Ira Chernus, Tomdispatch.com. June 26, 2009. The old narrative of Israel as the innocent victim is losing its grip on Americans. This is necessary if we are to be even-handed brokers.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. January 7, 2009. Assertions by the Obama team that we can both "surge" and negotiate overlook a harsh reality. If Obama's not careful, he could make the crisis worse.
Blue Texan, Firedoglake AlterNet: Video. January 4, 2009. In a classic example of a Dick who likes to place blame on others, Cheney blames the lengthy, bloody occupation on lack of Iraqi "get up and go."
AlterNetOctober 17, 2008. See how the candidates compare on the occupation of Iraq, the use of mercenaries in war and other issues in the so-called War on Terror.
Nir Rosen, The National, Abu Dhabi. June 14, 2008. As the U.S. tries to secure its "security agreement" in Iraq, the Mahdi Army remains the only genuine mass movement in Iraq.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. April 24, 2008. Since the press doesn't bother to ask key questions, here's an attempt to unravel the situation in Iraq.
Steve Niva, Foreign Policy in Focus. April 23, 2008. Through its awful Iraq strategy, the U.S. is re-creating itself in the image of a country permanently at war with the Arab and Muslim world.
Laurent Lozano, Middle East Online. April 17, 2008. The point of the occupation is the occupation itself, and the justifications will always keep coming.
Nina Berman, AlterNet. March 15, 2008. Hundreds of veterans are testifying against war crimes this weekend in Washington, DC. Nina Berman shares their stories.
Laura Flanders, AlterNet. December 15, 2007. Khaled Hosseini's moving novel and film hits on all the right themes for a tale about the West and Afghanistan.
Robert Dreyfuss, Tomdispatch.com. November 12, 2007. Who, exactly, are we fighting in Iraq? Why are we there? Nearly five years later, there are still no answers to the most basic questions about the Iraq occupation.
Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian, The Nation. July 13, 2007. Interviews with 50 Iraq war veterans reveal disturbing patterns of behavior by US troops in Iraq against innocent civilians -- brutal acts that often go unreported and almost always go unpunished.
Michael Schwartz, After Downing Street. July 6, 2007. 300 Iraqis killed by Americans each day sounds like an impossible figure, but a close look at the reported numbers of violent deaths and rate of armed patrols makes it all too likely.
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent UK. December 11, 2006. DC can't stop distorting the unpopularity of the occupation in Iraq: the Iraq Study Group revealed that on one day last July US officials reported 93 attacks or significant acts of violence. In reality, it added, "a careful review of the reports ... brought to light 1,100 acts of violence."
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. December 5, 2006. If we were to follow the recommendations of James Baker's Iraq Study Group, we'd be embedded in Iraq for at least another three to five years.
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