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Two recent articles in USA Today illustrate the hidden costs of the war. The first is about an Army study that found mental issues in 25,000 troops that came back from Iraq, including "post-traumatic stress disorder and depression to substance abuse and family...

Howard Defeated Down Under

Liam Madden from Iraq Veterans Against the War sends the following: In 1969, the My Lai massacre helped fuel popular opposition to the Vietnam War. U.S. political and military leaders insisted that such crimes were isolated exceptions. Members of Vietnam Veterans...

Headmaster Sullivan tells us to clean our plates: Imagine an Obama-McCain race: adult, graceful, necessary, and good for us. Ah, Mr. Platitude vs. Mr. Come-Unglued: yep, it'll be a regular Metamucil martini. Very adult!

Today's nugget of conventional wisdom comes from liberal hawk George Packer: In this election, the isolationist candidate is the Texas congressman Ron Paul. He frequently attacks the core rationale of Bush’s foreign policy, and receives enthusiastic applause for...

The November 21 Iraq Weekly Status Report, published by the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the US Department of State: Senior military commanders now portray the intransigence of Iraq's Shiite dominated government as the key threat facing the U.S. effort in Iraq,...

Neocons Think They’ve Won Iraq