Out of office, he continues to push his tortured version of reality -- and his vision of an imperial presidency -- and there are signs he is succeeding.
By Juan Cole May 13, 2009
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The vice president, now the administration's point man on Iraq, drops in to talk to officials, troops
By Gabriel Winant
July 2, 2009
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Action queen Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal talk about "The Hurt Locker," their pulse-elevating Iraq drama
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 26, 2009
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The filmmakers talk about telling the story of "the world's most dangerous job"
June 26, 2009
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Private messages reveal a dispute at the highest levels about the proper role of psychologists in interrogation, and whether cooperating with the Bush administration was unethical.
By Sheri Fink
May 8, 2009
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Americans have perpetuated a mythic version of the past that never even approximated reality and today has become downright malignant.
By Andrew Bacevich
April 30, 2009
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If Congress approves the president's request, the total cost of the two wars will reach almost $1 trillion.
By Alex Koppelman
April 9, 2009
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Closing out his big foreign tour, the president made an unannounced stop in the country Tuesday.
By Alex Koppelman
April 7, 2009
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As he prepares to return to Iraq, the MTV reality show star discusses how it feels to be redeployed -- and to learn about it on camera.
By Caitlin Shamberg
April 1, 2009
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Ex-Petraeus advisor David Kilcullen warns that if Western forces aren't willing to stick around in Iraq and Afghanistan, extremists will continue turning the locals into weapons.
By Laura Miller
March 11, 2009
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Some Iraq war critics are fretting about Obama's speech on Friday, and his plan to stay a little longer. But here's why there's no reason for alarm.
By Juan Cole
March 2, 2009
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Budgets are about priorities, not numbers, and President Obama's first budget marks a sea change from the past eight years.
By Mike Madden
February 27, 2009
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The House speaker says she wants only 15,000 to 20,000 troops to remain, while the president reportedly intends to leave 50,000 there.
By Alex Koppelman
February 26, 2009
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Violent protests and riots are breaking out everywhere as economies collapse and governments fail. War is bound to follow.
By Michael Klare
February 26, 2009
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The president is expected to announce later this week that about 100,000 soldiers will be withdrawing by summer 2010, with the rest leaving in 2011.
By Alex Koppelman
February 24, 2009
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The U.S. military has become so dependent on outside contractors like KBR that President Obama couldn't sever ties with these corporations even if he wanted to.
By Pratap Chatterjee
February 23, 2009
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One of the key proponents of the Iraq war is calling for regime change in Iran.
By Christopher M. Matthews
February 20, 2009
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Democrats fought the surge and the surge -- sort of -- won. Now what do we do in Iraq?
By Joan Walsh
February 18, 2009
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How did the American military become the French Foreign Legion?
By William Astore
February 17, 2009
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The recent Israeli offensive has put the final nail in the coffin of the Bush administration's Middle East fantasy.
By Juan Cole
January 8, 2009
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President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.
By Vincent Rossmeier and Gabriel Winant
January 8, 2009
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Hours after Salon revealed evidence that two Americans were killed by a U.S. tank, not enemy fire, military officials destroyed papers on the men.
By Mark Benjamin
November 20, 2008
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A soldier who was ordered to shred documents about two soldiers killed in an apparent friendly fire incident rescued some of the paperwork and provided it to Salon.
November 20, 2008
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The maverick of days past might be deadlocked with Obama now if he hadn't let the Republican right hijack the Straight Talk Express.
By Walter Shapiro
October 29, 2008
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Despite the impasse in U.S.-Iraq negotiations, he clings to his fantasy of "victory" and America's ability to set the terms for withdrawal.
By Joe Conason
October 27, 2008
The hidden hand of Dick Cheney
Biden in Baghdad
Defusing bombs at 115 degrees
Interview with Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal
A secret e-mail argument among psychologists about torture
Farewell to the American Century
"The Real World's" Ryan speaks 
Meet the accidental guerrillas
We're really leaving Iraq
This is not George Bush's budget
We're on the brink of disaster
The military's expanding waistline
This war is our war
America's imperial police force
Neoconservatism dies in Gaza
W. and the damage done
New friendly fire coverup: Army shreds files on dead soldiers
A document saved from the Army's shredder
How John McCain ran against himself
On Iraq, McCain doesn't have a clue
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