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 )

Ambassador: Bush Didn’t Know Sunni From Shiite

Staff / Truthdig Aug 5, 2006 More inspiring news about our leader from Raw Story: "Former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith is claiming President George W. Bush was unaware that there were two major sects of Islam just two months before the President ordered troops to invade Iraq." Can't say we didn't see this coming. Remember Bush's infamous "World Leaders Pop Quiz"? (video) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Breakup of Iraq Inevitable, Says Iraqi Official

Staff / Truthdig Jul 25, 2006 Saying "Iraq as a political project is finished," an unnamed senior government official tells The Independent that Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish parties are looking at ways to divide the country, perhaps splitting Baghdad into a Shiite east and Sunni west. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sectarian Blood Bath Drenches Baghdad

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2006 Over 100 people were killed in a three-day stretch A N Times reporter writes, "Militias now appear to be dictating the ebb and flow of life in Iraq". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Insurgents Post New Beheading Video

Staff / Truthdig Jun 11, 2006 Beheading videos were the favored means of propaganda of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, and this new one was clearly made to quash hopes his death would hamper the insurgency. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Almost 50 U.S. Troops Dead in Iraq Since April 1

Staff / Truthdig Apr 19, 2006 The high number of fatalities marks this as one of the bloodiest periods for the military since the invasion. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Suicide Bombers Kill 57 in Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Apr 12, 2006 The carnage continues--this time near a Sunni prayer service. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bound, Blindfolded and Dead: The Face of Atrocity in Baghdad

Staff / Truthdig Mar 26, 2006 As Baghdad's murder rate triples from 11 to 33 a day, bodies are turning up with horrific signs of torture. "This is sectarian cleansing," says a Kurdish member of parliament. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Claim: U.S.-Trained Iraqi Police Abetting Massacres

Staff / Truthdig Mar 23, 2006 Time magazine says evidence is mounting that the Shiite-dominated police force has become a corps of shock troops bent on killing Sunnis. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Iraqi Blogger Writes of Harrowing Existence

Staff / Truthdig Mar 20, 2006 The Washington Post ran a week's worth of postings by a young, UK-raised Iraqi dentist who describes the unnerving experience of living "between the hammer of terrorists and the anvil of American, British and Iraqi security forces." (Also, check out his blog, Healing Iraq, with his bio.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

In Iraq, 87 Bodies Found in 24 Hours

Staff / Truthdig Mar 14, 2006 The latest carnage appears to be almost wholly sectarian--that is, Shiite versus Sunni--and linked to last month's destruction of an important Shiite shrine. The single-day death tally of 87 follows a spate of weekend attacks that claimed 58 lives. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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 )