Tag Archives: War in Iraq

The Hitchens Archive: Video: Christopher Hitchens & Eric Alterman Discussing Politics in 2008

Posted on August 11, 2014 by

This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger Just to comment on Eric Alterman’s first point about Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens was never a Conservative, but perhaps a Neoconservative on foreign policy at least after 9/11. And as … Continue reading →

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U.S. Senate Democrats: Video: Senator John Tester: Taking Care of Veterans is a Cost of Going to War

Posted on July 25, 2014 by

This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator John Tester with the lines of the veterans affairs debate. Senator Bernie Sanders, “that if you can afford to send your soldiers to war, … Continue reading →

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Slate: Opinion: Jamelle Bouie: Neocons Already Destroyed Iraq: Why Neoconservatives Should be Ignored on Iraq

Posted on June 20, 2014 by

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Slate: Opinion: Jamelle Bouie: The Neocons Already Destroyed Iraq Once There’s an old American expression “fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”. Which basically translates if you are dumb enough … Continue reading →

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Foreign Affairs: Opinion: Omar Al-Nidawi: How PM Nouir Al-Maliki Lost Iraq

Posted on June 19, 2014 by

Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki Foreign Affairs: Opinion: Omar Al-Nidawi: How Maliki Lost Iraq It would be easy and perhaps even tempting to blame crisis going on in Northern Iraq and the fact that it is now under control by Islāmic … Continue reading →

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Foreign Affairs: Opinion- Gideon Rose- Iraq in Retrospect

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

This piece was originally posted at FRS FreeState The Iraq War is a tough issue for me. Because pre-Iraq invasion and up until the summer of 2003 when it was discovered that there were no more weapons of mass destruction … Continue reading →

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