Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The total cost of the Iraq war is approaching the Vietnam War's expense, a congressional report estimates, while spending for military operations after 9/11 has exceeded it.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The total cost of the Iraq war is approaching the Vietnam War's expense, a congressional report estimates, while spending for military operations after 9/11 has exceeded it.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The total cost of the Iraq war is approaching the Vietnam War's expense, a congressional report estimates, while spending for military operations after 9/11 has exceeded it.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
WASHINGTON | The total cost of the Iraq war is approaching the Vietnam War’s expense, a congressional report estimates, while spending for military operations after 9/11 has exceeded it.
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Wait - I thought Iraq was costing us trillions? That is what liberals have told us!!! I'm shocked! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_go_co/war_costs Of note: Here are the report's estimated costs of major wars, in 2008 dollars, and their costs as a percentage of GDP in each of...
Notes from a Different Kitchen (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Read about the f-ckery here . [AP via Google]
Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
I heard it just as recently as this weekend, when a local conservative blogger on my favorite radio station said something to the effect that “we now know there weren’t any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” And every time I hear that I always wonder do we? So much becomes considered common knowledge without [...]
Binside TV (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kanye West and MTV partner up for the documentary "Choose or Lose and Kanye West Present: Homecoming." West and MTV's Sway Calloway pay surprise visits to recently returned war veterans...
Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | yesterday
The death July 17 of Tech Sergeant Jackie Larson, of natural causes, brought to one hundred the number of American female military personnel who have died in the Iraq War, CNN reports. The death of an Air Force technical sergeant in Iraq last week quietly brought a somber milestone: One hundred American female service members have died in Iraq, according to a CNN count of Pentagon figures. The...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
In his 1999 book, A Charge To Keep, President Bush said he had “learned the lessons of Vietnam” about “never again ask[ing] the military to fight a political war.” After launching the Iraq war, in April 2004, Bush rejected the analogy that Iraq was turning into a quagmire like Vietnam: Q: How do you answer the [...]
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
What McCain is claiming today: “From the early days of this war, I feared the administration was pursuing a mistaken strategy, and I said so.” What McCain actually said during the early days of the war: EARLY 2003: MCCAIN PREDICTED A SHORT WAR IN IRAQ, SAYING “WE WILL BE WELCOMED AS LIBERATORS” McCain: Predicted a “Brief, Successful War In Iraq.” In March 2003, just prior to the start of military operations...
Martin Kelly (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Archbishop of Kirkuk is quoted in 'The Catholic Herald' as saying that Christians waging war on another country is a 'scandal'. He is right. I am a Christian; I supported the invasion of Iraq, the idea that violence would be done against other people in pursuit of a temporal goal; accordingly, I behaved scandalously, an I will have to account for it.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
Woman attacks near pro-U.S. Sunni Arab fighters A female suicide bomber blew herself up near U.S.-allied Sunni Arab fighters walking in a crowded area of Baqouba, killing at least eight of the guards and wounding 24 other people last night, police said.
Media Matters (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the July 22 broadcast of the CBS Evening News , while airing portions of an interview anchor Katie Couric conducted that day with Sen. John McCain, CBS News did not air McCain's response to a question in which he characterized the Iraq war as "the first major conflict since 9/11," apparently disregarding the war in Afghanistan, which Couric addressed in her question and which began in October 2001....
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Okay, maybe the punditry will finally start paying attention to McCain's constant screw ups on basic foreign policy issues. They should, because this is one big error uncovered by the Cenk Uygur . Yesterday, he called the war in Iraq "the first major conflict since 9/11." As Cenk wrote: Was Afghanistan not major enough for him? It almost reminds you of when Don Rumsfeld was not impressed with invading...
