LOGO: Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines. A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.Best Political Blog Winner, 2007 Webby Awards, People's Voice and Jury.  
 
November 22, 2008
Log in / Register

 Choose a size
Text Size

Most Read

A View From the South

To Each His Own Nuke

Artist-Elect Barack Obama

Bailout or Bust: How to Save the Big Three From Themselves

Stephen Colbert Gets Vetted

Most Comments
Most Emailed

Reports
To Each His Own Nuke

Ear to the Ground

A/V Booth

Arts & Culture

Digs
Financial Meltdown 101
Vetting Sarah Palin

Truthdig Bazaar
Judgment in Paris book cover

The Judgment of Paris

by Gore Vidal
Very Fine, Collector's Copy $600 NOW $300

more items

 
Tags

Tag: iraq

Ear to the Ground: Thousands Protest U.S. Pact

Reports: Why Obama Can Keep Gates

Ear to the Ground: Gates Might Stick Around

Reports: Bracing for a Major Disappointment

Reports: America’s Wars of Self-Destruction

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Cabinet OK’s Occupation Deal

Ear to the Ground: What’s Blackwater Doing in Alaska?

Reports: How Many Villages Must We Bomb Before We Find bin Laden?

Reports: With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick

Reports: This Is What He’s Sorry About?

Ear to the Ground: How Bloody Can Bush’s Legacy Be?

Ear to the Ground: Bush Regrets ‘Mission Accomplished’ and More

Reports: The Danger in Timidity

Reports: Only One Good Path for the Democrats: Go Big

Reports: Neocons Plot to Co-Opt Obama

Reports: Organizer in Chief

Reports: A New Era of Hope

Reports: Only Nader Is Right on the Issues

Reports: The Obama Standard

A/V Booth: Palin Talks of Wars in ‘Iraq and Iran’

Reports: The Unlearned Lessons of Vietnam Continue to Haunt The U.S.

Reports: Hell to Pay

Ear to the Ground: Liberals Resurrect Reagan to Endorse Obama

Reports: Obama Is the Superior Decider

Reports: Virtual JFK: The 44th President’s Foreign Policy Challenge

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Attack in Syria Kills 8

Ear to the Ground: New York Times Endorses Barack Obama

Ear to the Ground: Citizen Tim Takes On Obama by Himself

Ear to the Ground: Time Is Running Out for Iraq Occupation Deal

Ear to the Ground: Brokering a Fragile Peace in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Wrong Again, Bill Kristol

Reports: The Idiots Who Rule America

Cartoons: Powell to the People

A/V Booth: Colin Powell Endorses Obama

Ear to the Ground: Thousands of Iraqis Protest U.S. Occupation

Arts and Culture: Simon Lewis on Traumatic Brain Injuries

Reports: U.S. Loses Its Grip on Europe

Ear to the Ground: What Do John McCain and Saddam Hussein Have in Common?

Reports: Bush Doctrine Becomes DoD Dogma

Ear to the Ground: Turkey Bombs Northern Iraq

Reports: ‘Collateral Damage’ Not Much Different From Targeted Killing

Reports: The ‘New Multilateralism’

Reports: Third-Party Blues

Reports: What McCain and Obama Just Don’t Get About Central Asia

Reports: Weapons of Mass Distraction

Ear to the Ground: The Bailout: Take Two

Reports: With Palin, McCain Is Gambling With the Country

Reports: Will the Pentagon Be the Next U.S. Institution to Crash?

Reports: Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs

Reports: Bush Favors Bankers Over Soldiers

Reports: McCain’s Debate Implosion Bodes Ill for His Campaign

A/V Booth: Obama and McCain Face Off in First Presidential Debate

Reports: A Calm Obama Weathers a Storm of Sarcasm

Ear to the Ground: Hustling Toward a Bailout Compromise

A/V Booth: Blair Shows His Charmingly Imperialist Side

Ear to the Ground: Paulson Bailout Plan Could Reach $1 Trillion

Ear to the Ground: Immunity Issue Snags U.S.-Iraq Agreement

Reports: Farewell, General—but Did You Bring Iraq Hope?

Ear to the Ground: Book: Cheney Deceived GOP Leader on Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Odierno Takes Petraeus’ Place in Iraq

Reports: For Palin, It’s a (Christian) Man’s World

Reports: A Campaign Without Ideas

Reports: Remembering 9/11 and Moving Forward

A/V Booth: Inside the Surge

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Won’t Declare Victory in Iraq

A/V Booth: Obama on Death and Taxes

Cartoons: Is There a Doctor in the House or Senate?

Ear to the Ground: $40 Billion Tanker Contract Grounded

Ear to the Ground: Obama: Bush ‘Kicking the Can Down the Road’ to Next President

Ear to the Ground: Bush: Under Him, Most Troops Will Stay in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Al-Qaida’s No. 2 Blasts Iran

Ear to the Ground: Bush Oversees Unemployment and Misery

A/V Booth: Obama and O’Reilly Square Off

Reports: Memoir Politics

Ear to the Ground: More Nuggets From the Palin Gold Mine

Reports: Iraq From the Inside

Truthdig Podcast: Iraq From the Inside

Reports: Yes He Can

Reports: Cleaning Up After Bush

Reports: Questions for Hillary’s Zealots

Reports: U.S. Military Keeping Secrets About Female Soldiers’ ‘Suicides’?

Reports: Running for War President at Any Cost

Cartoons: Timetable

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Sides With Afghans in Airstrike Controversy

Ear to the Ground: Maliki Promises to Stand Firm on Sovereignty

Reports: Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire

Cartoons: The Private Contracting Games

A/V Booth: Georgia, Iraq and McCain’s Houses

Reports: What Obama Could Learn From Clinton

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Accused of Jailing Journalists Without a Just Cause

Cartoons: McCain Speech

Reports: Cheney, Bush and Habbush

Ear to the Ground: Gorbachev: ‘Russia Did Not Want This Crisis’

Reports: The Second Insurgency

Ear to the Ground: Obama and McCain Talk Morality at OC Mega-Church

A/V Booth: ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’

A/V Booth: Film Gets Up Close With Iraqi Refugees

Reports: Baghdad Behind Walls

Reports: A Cut-and-Paste Foreign Policy

A/V Booth: A No-No in Europe Is Just Ducky in the Mideast

Reports: ‘Where Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?’

Ear to the Ground: Putin Slams U.S., Georgia’s Western Allies

A/V Booth: City of Walls

Ear to the Ground: ‘Surge’ Rhetoric Not Universal

Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on the Middle East

Reports: Threats, Lies and Audiotape

Ear to the Ground: Iraq’s $79-Billion Windfall

A/V Booth: Ron Suskind on Bush’s ‘Great Lies’

Ear to the Ground: White House Fabricated Iraq Intelligence, Book Alleges

Ear to the Ground: ‘Reaper’ Ready to Watch Over Iraq

Reports: A War of Self-Destruction

Reports: Syria Succeeds by Doing Nothing

Reports: Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?

Reports: It’s the War, Stupid

Reports: ‘It’s a Global Election’

Ear to the Ground: The Return of Rumsfeld

Reports: Acts of War

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Blasts Kill Dozens

Arts and Culture: Nikki Keddie on Iran

Reports: The Dream Campaign Goes to Berlin

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Won’t Be Going to Beijing

Reports: Washington’s Overrated ‘Old Hands’

Reports: Refighting the Vietnam War

Ear to the Ground: New McCain Gaffes on Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Der Spiegel or ‘Der Lying’?

Reports: No Easy Out for Obama

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Plans to Back Away From Security Biz

Reports: Bush’s Semantic Withdrawal

Reports: Obama’s Audition

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Shows Obama the Sights

Ear to the Ground: NYT Rejects McCain Essay

Ear to the Ground: Obama in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Obama Commits to Afghanistan Escalation

Ear to the Ground: Obama Begins World Tour

Ear to the Ground: Bush Considering ‘General’ Withdrawal Timetable

Reports: ‘Centrists’ Running the Asylum

Reports: Obama’s Disaster in the Making

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Keeps Bombing Weddings

Ear to the Ground: Obama: ‘The Central Front in the War on Terror Is Not Iraq’

Cartoons: War Is Over-ish

Reports: The New Dominion

Reports: Iran Shows Its Cards

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Plan for Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Occupation Negotiations Hit Snags

Reports: Disorderly or Not, America Should Withdraw

Reports: Military Action Against Iran ‘Would Destabilize Iraq’

A/V Booth: Paralympic Athletes Carry Iraq’s Hopes

A/V Booth: Vet Groups Battle for American Hearts and Minds

A/V Booth: Obama’s Iraq Flap

Arts and Culture: Pentagon Looking to Help Shape War Films

Ear to the Ground: Maliki Mulls Troop Pullout

Reports: Surviving the Fourth of July

Reports: Obama the Shape-Shifter? Not Quite

Cartoons: Pull and Pray

Ear to the Ground: Obama Hedges on Withdrawal

Cartoons: Prisoner of War

Reports: Iraq’s Signature Wound

A/V Booth: American Vets’ Stories in Their Own Words

Ear to the Ground: Private Contractors in Iraq to Lose Immunity

Reports: Terror Goes a Lot Further With Good Advertising

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Death Toll Outpaces Iraq

Reports: Bush’s Loose Ends

Reports: The Illusion of Saving Nations From Themselves

Ear to the Ground: American Fingers in Iraq’s Cookie Jar

Ear to the Ground: Congress’ Missing Backbone

Reports: The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was

A/V Booth: George Carlin on Words, War and Power

Reports: The Hedonists of Power

Ear to the Ground: What War?

Cartoons: War Memorial

Reports: Time for the Iraq Debate to Move On

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Negotiations Hinge on Sovereignty

Ear to the Ground: Refugees on the Rise

A/V Booth: Obama Blasts GOP Anti-Terror Tactics

Ear to the Ground: You Can’t Always Veep Who You Want

A/V Booth: Educating McCain on Iraq

Reports: The Middle East Never Tires of Threats

Ear to the Ground: By George W. Bush

Ear to the Ground: Bush Optimistic in the Face of Iraqi Resistance

Cartoons: Problem Solved

Reports: An Anti-Clinton for VP

Reports: John McCain’s Chilling Project for America

Reports: Kucinich Tilts at Impeachment

Reports: A Challenge Obama Should Accept

Reports: This Way to Better Media

Ear to the Ground: McCain Pooh-Poohs a Time Frame for Withdrawal

Ear to the Ground: Private Contractors ‘Mismanaged’ $23 Billion in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Florida Co-Chair Says Yes to Impeachment

Reports: Investigate This

Reports: The Case for Biden

Reports: The Iran Trap

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Has Iran’s Back

A/V Booth: Scott McClellan, Minister of Misinformation

Reports: The Corporate State and the Subversion of Democracy

Ear to the Ground: Al-Qaida Analysis: Election Year Edition

A/V Booth: Scott McClellan’s Disillusionment

Reports: The Lamont Lesson

Reports: The Unsung Victims of the Emerald City

Reports: What Obama Should Say to Women

Reports: Israel’s Self-Destruction as a Jewish State

View the most popular tags overall?

Newsletter

Get Truthdig in your inbox

Privacy Policy

 
Click here to advertise with Truthdig
 

 
Join the Liberal Blog Advertising Network
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
Copyright © 2008 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved.