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How President Bush and his advisors have spent each year of the war peddling mendacious tales about a mission accomplished.
By Juan Cole
March 19, 2008
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Based on his policies and the company he keeps, this year's Republican presidential candidate sounds a lot like the guy who ran in 2000 and 2004.
By Juan Cole
March 12, 2008
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The attacks on Barack Obama's middle name have begun, but the likely Democratic nominee joins a long line of famous Americans with Semitic names, from Benjamin Franklin to Omar Bradley.
By Juan Cole
February 28, 2008
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In virtual worlds, does it take two terrorists to tango? And how much should we worry about those secret stockpiles of cartoon weapons?
By Juan Cole
February 25, 2008
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The unraveling of Pervez Musharraf's presidency has dealt a severe blow to Bush's fatally flawed policy in the region.
By Juan Cole
February 20, 2008
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The 2008 Republican race has left a bitter legacy of sloganeering against Muslims. It may well haunt the party this November.
By Juan Cole
February 1, 2008
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On the stump in Michigan, John McCain campaigns on victory in Iraq. It's a risky strategy, as the recent surge in violence shows.
By Juan Cole
January 15, 2008
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Bush's failed policies in Pakistan, a nuclear power that al-Qaida still uses to plot against the West, threatens U.S. security more than Iraq ever did.
By Juan Cole
December 27, 2007
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Rudy Giuliani was counting on Iran as a weapon of mass distraction in the '08 race. But the flailing Republican right has just been disarmed.
By Juan Cole
December 11, 2007
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The influx of U.S. troops brought a relative lull in violence -- but the failing state remains in political chaos and is headed for collapse.
By Juan Cole
December 4, 2007
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Democracy for Pakistan was never the deal -- and as Musharraf's latest power grab throws his nation into turmoil, Bush will gladly go along.
By Juan Cole
November 6, 2007
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From Turkey to Iraq to Pakistan, the mounting chaos proves the White House is just winging it.
By Juan Cole
October 24, 2007
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Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton think a tough line on Tehran will sell politically. They could be right.
By Juan Cole
October 17, 2007
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Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war.
By Juan Cole
September 24, 2007
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The president's appeals to democracy, liberty and security to justify the carnage in Iraq recall Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian conquest.
By Juan Cole
August 30, 2007
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Sens. Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin are calling for Nouri al-Maliki's ouster as a way of attacking Bush's Iraq policy. But do they understand the consequences?
By Juan Cole
August 29, 2007
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Even Fox's Chris Wallace wants to know why Bush's newly departed advisor had to paint Democrats as traitors.
By Juan Cole
August 20, 2007
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Bush's backers are peddling a sunny view of the president's strategy -- despite Iraq's political chaos and soaring death counts.
By Juan Cole
August 7, 2007
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The White House hints at military action as the terror organization regroups in northern Pakistan and the Musharraf government begins to wobble.
By Juan Cole
July 24, 2007
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Some of the accused behind the recent terror plots in Britain were professional healers. What on earth prompts someone to snap from caregiver to killer?
By Juan Cole
July 9, 2007
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As the U.S. takes sides in Iraq's splintering civil war, a top Republican warns Bush's policy will fail.
By Juan Cole
June 28, 2007
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Why the worldview of "Heroes" clashes with the vice president's "1 percent doctrine" on terrorism.
By Juan Cole
May 30, 2007
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The cronyism that may cost him his World Bank job is also what caused the Iraq debacle.
By Juan Cole
May 14, 2007
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In his book and on TV, former CIA Director George Tenet remembers all the things he should've said before we invaded Iraq but didn't.
By Juan Cole
April 30, 2007
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His rosy statements about Iraq were aimed at GOP primary voters, but they suggest the would-be president doesn't understand the war he'd be fighting.
By Juan Cole
April 9, 2007
Five years of Iraq lies
John McCain runs for George Bush's third term
Obama should be proud to be named Hussein
Osama bin Laden's "Second Life"
Pakistan turns scary for Bush's war on terror
Blowback from the GOP's holy war
McCain owns the Iraq war -- for better or worse
With Bhutto gone, does Bush have a Plan B?
The GOP's Iran option is off the table
Why Bush's troop surge won't save Iraq
Bush and Musharraf's grand illusion
The collapse of Bush's foreign policy
The Iran hawks
Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1
Bush's Napoleon complex
The war against Iraq's prime minister
The poisonous rhetorical legacy of Karl Rove
A surge of phony spin on Iraq
Bush's incompetence gives al-Qaida new life
Inside the minds of killer doctors
Surging toward disaster in Iraq
Dick Cheney's least favorite TV show?
Paul Wolfowitz's fatal weakness
George Tenet on the staircase with the neocons
John McCain's Iraq problem
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