fallujah

The dark truth about Blackwater The dark truth about Blackwater

Outsourcing the war to private military contractors such as Blackwater has shattered the United States' moral authority and its ability to win wars like that in Iraq.
By P.W. Singer Oct 2, 2007

  • Fallujah catches its breath

    Despite Bush's deceptive rhetoric and mishandling of the war, the Marines I rode with here have won a delicate peace in this once-deadly city.
    By David J. Morris August 21, 2007

  • Getting blown up, again and again

    U.S. soldiers traumatized by Iraq are combating PTSD with a virtual reality treatment that plunges them back into the war zone.
    By Eilene Zimmerman May 16, 2007

  • George Bush Sr. asked retired general to replace Rumsfeld

    The former president's secret campaign to oust the secretary of defense was rebuffed by President Bush, a source says.
    By Sidney Blumenthal June 8, 2006

  • "You want to shoot them"

    Convinced that kids were spying on them, sick of seeing buddies blown apart, the Marines accused of the Haditha massacre cracked.
    By Mark Benjamin June 8, 2006

  • Slipping and sliding on white phosphorus in Fallujah

    After an initial denial, the Pentagon now acknowledges that troops used the chemical on insurgents -- and can't rule out contact with civilians.
    By Tim Grieve November 21, 2005

  • "Females are essential"

    In the aftermath of the deadliest attack ever on American women soldiers, Marines unite around the need for military women in a war zone.
    By Phillip Robertson June 29, 2005

  • Major combat miscalculations

    The second anniversary of President Bush's major P.R. stunt comes and goes.
    By Mark Follman May 10, 2005

  • The Associated Press "insurgency"

    Conservative bloggers tar an AP photojournalist with complicity in Sunday's street execution in Baghdad -- another cheap shot at the "left-wing" media.
    By Mark Follman December 22, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Andrew Sullivan says Republicans like "Will & Grace" because its characters are sexless and unthreatening. Meanwhile, Christian activist Joe Glover demands gays be driven from Washington.
    By Mark Follman December 8, 2004

  • Fallujah anticlimax

    Al-Jazeera's subdued coverage reveals some ambivalence in Arab views of the showdown.
    By Eric Boehlert November 12, 2004

  • Playing cowboys and Indians

    The military's emphasis on capturing Fallujah reveals a mind-set stuck in Western frontier mode.
    By David J. Morris November 12, 2004

  • A prisoner's tale

    The saga of a hapless New Zealander who ended up behind bars after seeking work in Iraq reveals the darker side of the U.S.-led coalition's operations.
    By Graeme Wood October 31, 2004

  • Why the U.S. must withdraw from Iraq

    Vietnam proved that offensive occupations are doomed. In his arrogance, Bush is repeating the same blunder.
    By Peter Dale Scott October 28, 2004

  • Hell

    Salon's war correspondent on the Iraq inferno.
    By Phillip Robertson September 23, 2004

  • The bubble boy

    Bush lives in a world immune from the realities of Iraq.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 23, 2004

  • The enemy is us

    In war, you deny information, spread lies and use psychological warfare. An expert on military information operations explains how Bush has mastered this technique -- and used it against the American people.
    By Sam Gardiner September 22, 2004

  • Turning point

    A journalist who was embedded with the U.S. Marines in Fallujah explains how the Bush White House lost the key battle of the Iraq war.
    By David J. Morris September 16, 2004

  • Hiding the bodies

    U.S. casualties have spiked in Iraq over the last three months, but security expert John Pike says the Bush administration -- with the help of the media -- is succeeding in keeping the carnage out of view.
    By Jeff Horwitz September 8, 2004

  • The Great Satan

    Thanks to Bush's neocon cabal, the Arab world now hates the U.S. as much as it does Israel.
    By Steven A. Cook May 7, 2004

  • Reality check

    The media are finally showing the war in its full horror. What took them so long?
    By Eric Boehlert May 6, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Conservatives say Bush is drifting on Iraq and that Fallujah should be crushed, but they've been conspicuously quiet about the photos of flag-draped coffins. Plus: O'Reilly bashes Rummy!
    By Mark Follman April 28, 2004

  • Highways of horror

    Driven by rage at the U.S. occupation, and hoping to split the shaky allied coalition, tribesmen are taking hostages -- and now killing them.
    By Saad George Hattar April 16, 2004

  • Turning into Israel?

    Outraged by President Bush's embrace of Ariel Sharon and the bloody U.S. assault on Fallujah, the Arab world is linking America's occupation with Israel's. That's ominous.
    By Juan Cole April 16, 2004

  • From swatting flies to stirring up hornets' nests

    A new terrorist document shows that as the U.S. flails in Iraq, only al-Qaida seems to have a strategy.
    By Husain Haqqani April 14, 2004
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