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Bush "at peace" waging war
A new transcript reveals the president, on the brink of the Iraq invasion, full of faith, calm and unyielding optimism.
By Mark Danner Oct 18, 2007
The man who sold the war
"Curveball" author Bob Drogin talks about the Iraqi defector responsible for much of the CIA's bogus prewar intelligence about Iraqi WMD.
By Alex Koppelman Oct 16, 2007
"Seven countries in five years"
Wesley Clark's new memoir casts more light on the Bush administration's secret strategies for regime change in Iran and elsewhere.
By Joe Conason Oct 12, 2007
The war president "at peace" with himself
Bush's 2003 conversation with the Spanish prime minister shows his smug determination to invade Iraq at all costs.
By Joe Conason Sep 28, 2007
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq.
By Sidney Blumenthal Sep 6, 2007
Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein and 9/11
Rove explains Cheney's 1994 view that overthrowing Saddam wouldn't be worth "very many" American lives.
Tim Grieve Aug 20, 2007
The Iraq war is lost
Bush and his band of backers won't admit that -- but their strategy is already defined by the specter of American defeat.
By Peter Galbraith Jul 18, 2007
The Libby lobby's pardon campaign
Having never expressed remorse for his crime, Scooter Libby instead enlisted his neoconservative friends to win him reduced prison time.
By Sidney Blumenthal Jun 7, 2007
How Bush's war bolstered Syria
The chaos in Iraq has emboldened Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime and given Syria new power to meddle in the Middle East.
By Mohamad Bazzi May 31, 2007
Paul Wolfowitz's fatal weakness
The cronyism that may cost him his World Bank job is also what caused the Iraq debacle.
By Juan Cole May 14, 2007
George Tenet, spook for all seasons
The former CIA chief seems strangely oblivious that his self-serving defense is shredding the remains of his reputation.
By Sidney Blumenthal May 3, 2007
From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib
To understand how Bush justifies a torture policy that is the bane of our nation, consider the sentimental cowboy art that decks his Oval Office walls.
By Sidney Blumenthal Apr 26, 2007
Libby's last disinformation campaign
Not only did Scooter's defense rely on emotion over facts, but it appealed to the jury to dismiss the craft of journalism as false by nature.
By Sidney Blumenthal Feb 22, 2007
How Libby became Cheney's pawn
The vice president knew the intelligence for the Iraq war was cooked. So he launched his aide to smear the man who took the information public.
By Sidney Blumenthal Feb 1, 2007
How the left caused 9/11, by Dinesh D'Souza
An interview with the conservative polemicist, who accuses the cultural left of provoking al-Qaida's attack in his new book, "The Enemy at Home."
By Alex Koppelman Jan 20, 2007
Bush: "We're going forward"
And other highlights/lowlights from the president's interview with "60 MInutes."
By David Puner Jan 16, 2007
Did the U.S. just provoke Iran?
Thursday's raid on the Iranian consulate is more evidence that President Bush is ready to escalate the conflict.
By Juan Cole Jan 12, 2007
Saddam: mourning and burial
The executed leader comes home.
By David Puner Jan 9, 2007
More Saddam footage
Another cell phone camera?
By David Puner Jan 9, 2007
Theater of blood
Bush wanted his Iraq war to be a lofty Shakespearean history. He got a vicious, corpse-strewn revenge tragedy.
By Gary Kamiya Jan 9, 2007
White House won't condemn Saddam spectacle
Tony Snow says the thing that matters is that the condemned man was a killer.
Tim Grieve Jan 4, 2007
Blaming the messenger
We know who was responsible for Saddam Hussein's execution. Who cares who photographed it?
Tim Grieve Jan 3, 2007
Saddam gallows video
A dictator's final moments.
By David Puner Jan 2, 2007
Saddam: The death of a dictator
Through the bumbling of the U.S.-backed regime, justice becomes revenge, and a despot becomes a martyr.
By Juan Cole Dec 30, 2006
Mugged by reality
Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found.
By Sidney Blumenthal Dec 14, 2006
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