Ali Gharib, IPS News. May 6, 2008. Two new ICG reports show that, at best, the "surge" was a temporary solution and that, in Iraq, "underlying issues will again come to the fore."
Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor. May 3, 2008. Reports of the Iraqi Army's performance range from good, with British military officers describing it as an "unmitigated disaster at every level."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 23, 2008. Weeks after defending the war before Congress, General David Petraeus is tapped to become the head of U.S. Central Command.
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.
Jim Lobe, IPS News. April 16, 2008. A new assessment finds that the decrease in violence over the past six months has not led to political reconciliation.
Jeffrey Kaye, Invictus AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 1, 2008. While Bush and his media toadies tout Anbar province as a "success" story for the "surge," conditions in the city jail reveal a different reality.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. March 12, 2008. The Sunni insurgent strategy of flooding U.S.-backed paramilitaries with their own fighters appears to be making it stronger than ever.
Dahr Jamail, Ali Al-Fadhily, IPS News. February 19, 2008. When U.S. forces speak of a reduction in violence, many Iraqis simply do not know what they are talking about.
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent UK. February 15, 2008. Life in Iraq, the Pentagon boasts, is returning to normal. But the truth is a very different story.
Scarecrow, Firedoglake AlterNet: Election 2008. February 11, 2008. Let McCain take all the credit he wants for the surge. It looks like the voters will hold him responsible for the consequence -- all of them.
Scott Ritter, Truthdig. February 8, 2008. As nice as it would be for some hope that the "surge" worked, the truth is that the disaster in Iraq has only just begun.
Brian Katulis, Comment Is Free. January 23, 2008. The US has deluded itself for far too long by projecting its own paradigms and internal debates onto Iraq.
Bill Maher, Huffington Post. September 29, 2007. Bush is fighting a war with phony accounting tricks. They fudged the numbers to get us into Iraq and cooked the books to keep us there.
Gary Langer, The New York Times. September 19, 2007. Residents of al-Anbar province, location of the much-ballyhooed "progress" in Iraq, don't see it the way Petraeus does.
Joe Conason, Truthdig. September 17, 2007. Despite the big charts and the blustering fanfare, neither Petraeus nor Ambassador Crocker could convincingly claim that the military escalation in Iraq is achieving its goals.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. September 14, 2007. Bush's Oval Office address on Iraq culminates a week of brazen propaganda from the White House and Pentagon, with no sign that the president has learned anything from his failure.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. September 13, 2007. The Hip Hop Caucus' Rev. Lennox Yearwood, propped up by Iraq Vets Against the War, speaks out about his ordeal.
Satyam Khanna, AlterNet: PEEK. September 13, 2007. Satyam Khanna: "Armageddon" is brewing between Petraeus and Fallon because they have "profoundly different views of the U.S. role in Iraq.
