Iraq War

"The Hurt Locker" "The Hurt Locker"

Could an Iraq war movie actually be good? Kathryn Bigelow's unsettling film is more than explosions and gore
By Stephanie Zacharek Jun 26, 2009

  • Obama, Muslim-world rock star

    They like him, they really like him! Well, maybe not so much in Egypt. But they're willing to give him a chance.
    By Juan Cole June 3, 2009

  • Bush is gone, but Halliburton rolls on

    Dick Cheney's former company spun off KBR in 2007 -- yet paid a huge fine for the military contractor 3 months ago.
    By Pratap Chatterjee June 3, 2009

  • Another round for democracy

    Cheney's hostile speech only highlighted President Obama's commitment to American standards of liberty
    By Joe Conason May 22, 2009

  • Our unending war of terror

    Bush's embrace of torture was horrific, but it was hardly the first time Americans have acted like terrorists.
    By Noam Chomsky May 19, 2009

  • The 13 people who made torture possible

    The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.
    By Marcy Wheeler May 18, 2009

  • We tortured to justify war

    Dick Cheney keeps saying "enhanced interrogation" was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
    By Joe Conason May 14, 2009

  • They're Obama's wars now

    George W. Bush may have started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it's up to the new president to resolve them.
    By Gene Lyons May 14, 2009

  • Army suicides soar past 2008's pace

    The day after the shooting at a combat stress clinic in Iraq, new data released to Salon shows soldiers committing suicide at a record-setting pace. Is combat stress the reason?
    By Mark Benjamin May 12, 2009

  • Two groups call for probe following Salon exposé

    A veterans organization and a government watchdog group have asked the House Armed Services Committee to investigate a veterans healthcare scandal exposed by Salon.
    By Mark Benjamin and Michael de Yoanna May 5, 2009

  • The Democrats have no more excuses

    With Arlen Specter and Al Franken, the Democrats will have 60 votes in the Senate. They can no longer blame Republicans for standing in the way of a progressive agenda.
    By David Sirota May 1, 2009

  • Cheney's painful war for torture

    President Obama must fight back against the former vice president by launching investigations into the Bush administration's interrogation policies.
    By Gene Lyons April 30, 2009

  • Farewell to the American Century

    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

  • Why can't conservatives admit George Bush broke America?

    From his undisclosed location, our undercover Wingnut explains why the right thinks George Bush has been unfairly criticized and will be vindicated by history.
    By Glenallen Walken April 27, 2009

  • The Army investigates itself again

    Why is the Army sending sick troops back into combat? You won't learn the answer from a new internal report.
    By Mark Benjamin April 23, 2009

  • The shaming of America

    Judge Jay S. Bybee provided the legal framework for torture to the Bush administration. If he had even a particle of decency, he'd resign.
    By Gene Lyons April 23, 2009

  • Torture planning began in 2001, Senate report reveals

    Bush officials said they only tortured terrorists after they wouldn't talk. New evidence shows they planned torture soon after 9/11 -- and used it to find links between al-Qaida and Saddam.
    By Mark Benjamin April 22, 2009

  • Rumsfeld: Architect of torture

    The secretary of defense began laying the groundwork for detainee abuse years before Abu Ghraib.
    By Mike Madden April 22, 2009

  • The two Obamas

    Obama is a better foreign-policy president than domestic-policy president. Unfortunately, so was Jimmy Carter. Time to be bold.
    By Michael Lind April 21, 2009

  • While you were out

    Back from Baghdad, the president clears out his in box and talks healthcare, pirates and mortgages. He will fix your muffler AND refinance your home.
    By Mike Madden April 10, 2009

  • "This report does not find pressure to change clinical diagnoses"

    A summary of an Army investigation says some soldiers with PTSD may not get the diagnoses they deserve -- but nobody in the Army did anything wrong.
    April 9, 2009
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