The story of Pfc. Bradley Manning has multiple strands. There’s the Iraq War, treatment of prisoners during a terror watch, and “Don,t Ask, Don’ Tell.” Each thread requires attention, but it’s(...)

In 2003 when the Iraqi invasion was being planned, the CIA came up with the brilliant plan to produce a video showing Saddam Hussein’s love of boy booty.“It would look like it was taken by a(...)

You’ve seen the video and if you haven’t a friend has sent it. In fact you probably want to give journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, the man who threw two shoes at President George Bush, a few bucks(...)

During the campaign, Barack Obama noted he was against the Iraq War and pointed to a speech he made in 2002 at an anti-war rally.

It’s fair to point out though, he was just a state senator at(...)

The folk who run the op/ed section of the New York Times need a primer in the art of public relations. Two presumptive nominees for the White House, questions and debates on how to manage a(...)

Barack Obama meeting with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki in Baghdad on Monday.

If there is one issue that arguably helped more than any other to propel Barack Obama to the nomination, it(...)