Category Archives: Iraq

NYT on WikiLeaks: Move Along, No Atrocity to See Here

Posted on 09/01/2011 by Peter Hart

(UPDATE: Today's Times includes a story about the WikiLeaks Iraq cable, under the somewhat strange headline "Cable Implicates Americans in Deaths of Iraqi Civilians." Still very little in the rest of the press– nothing on television, according to a search … Continue reading →

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Zakaria, Libya and Iraq: Don't Remember What I Wrote

Posted on 08/26/2011 by Peter Hart

Fareed Zakaria cheers the Libya War in Time magazine this week for not following the Iraq model: It has been prosecuted with the memory of the Iraq war firmly in mind. Only this time the approach has been to view … Continue reading →

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Anonymous Frankness at the Washington Post

Posted on 08/04/2011 by Peter Hart

U.S. officials seem to be making progress in convincing Iraqi politicians to let some troops stay in Iraq beyond the December withdrawal deadline. The Washington Post weighs in today (8/4/11) and gets some anonymous straight talk: "There seems to be … Continue reading →

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Mistakes, Madeleine Albright and Dead Iraqi Children

Posted on 07/25/2011 by Peter Hart

Newsweek has a feature called "My Favorite Mistake," where a famous person talks about something they've done wrong.http://www.fair.org/blog/wp-admin/edit.php This week (7/24/11) it's former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The mistake she cited was when she wore the wrong pin to … Continue reading →

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WaPost: Iraq 'Complicates' Withdrawal by Sticking to Plan

Posted on 07/11/2011 by Peter Hart

The current Status of Forces agreement calls for U.S. troops to be out of Iraq by the end of the year. The U.S. government wants to stay longer, and would seem to be pressuring the Iraqi government to ask them … Continue reading →

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Gingrich's Gaffes and Wesley Clark's

Posted on 05/19/2011 by Peter Hart

The New York Times' Michael Shear has a piece today (5/19/11) reminding readers that presidential candidates often have early stumbles of the sort that Newt Gingrich has been having. He recalls several examples, most of which don't really offer much … Continue reading →

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The Iraq War's New 'Complications'

Posted on 05/10/2011 by Peter Hart

The Washington Post today (5/10/11) has a perplexing article by Aaron Davis about U.S. troops leaving Iraq. Here's the lead: BAGHDAD — The United States' pleas for Iraq's government to decide "within weeks" whether American troops should stay beyond a … Continue reading →

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The Shifting Standard for Indiscriminate Killing

Posted on 05/10/2011 by Jim Naureckas

I was struck by the contrast between two passages I came across recently: Misurata's population is roughly 400,000. In nearly two months of war, only 257 people–including combatants–have died there. Of the 949 wounded, only 22–less than 3 percent–are women. … Continue reading →

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Did the WaPo Hire Sean Hannity?

Posted on 05/05/2011 by Peter Hart

OK, this isn't Sean Hannity's byline in the Post today, but it might as well be. The headline should stop you: In bin Laden Victory, Echoes of the Bush Years The piece–actually written by Scott Wilson and Anne Kornblut–lays out … Continue reading →

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Friedman, Iraq and the U.S. Referee

Posted on 04/13/2011 by Peter Hart

Tom Friedman, writing today aboutthe Arab Spring (4/13/11–the same column Jim Naureckas critiqued for FAIR Blog here): Another option is that an outside power comes in, as America did in Iraq, and as the European Union did in Eastern Europe, … Continue reading →

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NYT Calls for Protecting Libyan Civilians by Escalating War–Like in Fallujah

Posted on 04/08/2011 by Peter Hart

Afraid of NATO killing civilians in Libya? The New York Times editorial page (4/8/11) sees the way forwardby ramping up the war: There is a much better option: the American A-10 and AC-130 aircraft used earlier in the Libya fighting … Continue reading →

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Maddow Wonders Why Libyan Journalists Aren't Being Targeted

Posted on 04/05/2011 by Jim Naureckas

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow had a discussion last week (3/31/11) about the U.S. role in the Libya War with Col. Jack Jacobs, an MSNBC military consultant. Jacobs described the U.S. military's "ability to jam communications that take place between units or … Continue reading →

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Maybe NYT Should Be Embarrassed by Misleading Hussein Profile

Posted on 03/29/2011 by Jim Naureckas

In a New York Times science article (3/29/11) about the CIA and Pentagon's psychological profiling of foreign political figures, reporter Benedict Carey adds a note of caution: Yet the assessments can also be misleading, even embarrassing. Profiles of President Saddam … Continue reading →

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Wait–the Iraq WMD Stuff Was a Lie??

Posted on 02/16/2011 by Peter Hart

The Guardian published a piece yesterday (2/15/11) based on an interview with "Curveball," the Iraqi exile whose fraudulent claims about Iraq's WMDs helped the Bush administration sell the Iraq War. "I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the … Continue reading →

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The Iraq War Still Won't End Despite 'Pullout'

Posted on 01/14/2011 by Peter Hart

Four months ago, Steve Rendall wrote here (9/10/10) about the militarization of the State Department and its role in the continuing occupation of Iraq–developments that were getting little attention amidst all the talk of the "end" of thewar. Now Aaron … Continue reading →

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