Putting Iraq’s Violence in Perspective

Staff / Truthdig Nov 30, 2006 Former "60 Minutes" producer Barry Lando compared Iraq's civil war with other bloody intranational conflicts in history. The results were startling: Adjusted for population and disease, Iraq's recent monthly death toll outpaced the American Civil War, and even that of Lebanon. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

CNN’s Ware on a Deteriorating Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Nov 29, 2006 Michael Ware, who has been reporting from Iraq for three years now, describes the situation to Wolf Blitzer: "If this is not a civil war, Wolf, I don't want to see one when it comes." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stewart Debates ‘Civil War’ Semantics

Staff / Truthdig Nov 29, 2006 Is the Iraq conflict a "civil war" or "a minor linguistic flareup between two parties of different terminological points of view"? "The Daily Show" has the lowdown. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hagel Warns of ‘Hopeless, Winless Situation’ in Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Aug 7, 2006 Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel chastised the Bush administration on "Face the Nation," saying Iraq was headed toward civil war and neither the American people nor Congress would tolerate the continued presence of U.S. troops there. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Friedman Jumps on the Antiwar Bandwagon

Staff / Truthdig Aug 5, 2006 Tom Friedman, the NY Times columnist whose Mideast and Iraq war analyses formed the "conventional thinking" for centrists and lefties the world 'round, has thrown in the towel on his three-year-long support of the Iraq war: "It is now obvious that we are not midwifing democracy in Iraq We are baby-sitting a civil war" (more) . Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Kerry Calls for Iraq Pullout Deadline

Staff / Truthdig Apr 5, 2006 In the N.Y. Times, the former presidential candidate calls for two deadlines: May 15 for the Iraqis to form a unity government, and a date later in the year for the U.S. to pull out. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Violence Claims 81 Lives in Baghdad

Staff / Truthdig Mar 27, 2006 The sectarian violence continues unabated. Also, a N.Y. Times reporter returns to Iraq after a year away and immediately sizes up the difference between an anti-U.S. insurgency and a civil war (although he doesn't use that word). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraq: Three Years In

Staff / Truthdig Mar 19, 2006 It's the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq Where do we stand? The NY Times calls the undertaking a miserable, botched fiasco Iraq's former interim prime minister calls the sectarian violence "civil war" An LA Times reporter says that Bush is working to lower expectations in Iraq Donald Rumsfeld, writing in the Washington Post, sees the occupation through rose-colored glasses A BBC reporter gives a "glass-half-full / glass-half-empty" reading, but the headline uses the word "bleak". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

NYT’s John Burns on Civil War In Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Mar 15, 2006 The N.Y. Times' Baghdad bureau chief tells Bill Maher it appears "improbable" that the U.S. effort in Iraq will reach "a satisfactory conclusion." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Sets a Target for Iraq Transition

Staff / Truthdig Mar 14, 2006 The president, who has until now refused to set concrete withdrawal timelines, now vows to cede control of most of the country to Iraqi forces by the end of 2006 Check out a full-text version of his speech. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Ties Iran to Iraqi Bombs

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N.Y. Times Bureau Chief: U.S. Effort in Iraq Likely to Fail

Staff / Truthdig Mar 13, 2006 On a day when car bombs killed at least 62 people in Baghdad, reinforcing fears of an all-out civil war, John Burns, the N.Y. Times' Baghdad bureau chief, tells Editor & Publisher that this struggle has, in fact, always been a civil war and, worse, that America will "probably" fail in Iraq. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )