and we would be surprised by this because...? In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall of S...

There's actually a lot Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush....

George Bush gave his final press conference as the President of the United States and admitted that the "mission accomplished" banner which was hung to signal the end of the Iraq War was a mistake. He also spoke about his lackluster reaction to Hurricane Katrina, the lack of weapons of mass destruct...

According to Tricky Dick II, Iraq is much better off today than under Saddam Hussein. "I think Iraq is much better off than it was before we went in in '03 and got rid of Saddam Hussein," Cheney told host Bob Schieffer on the CBS program "Face the Nation." "I think we are close to achieving most of ...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 4 -- A woman wearing an explosives belt packed with ball bearings blew herself up in Baghdad near one of Iraq's most sacred Shiite shrines, killing at least 40 people and wounding scores more in a devastating attack that shattered festive celebrations ahead of Shiite Islam's holiest......

Washington is awash in Obama lists. Crises to be confronted. Challenges to be met. Problems to be addressed. Irritants to be soothed. Itches to be scratched. The chattering class has become the tabulating class....

Who could forget "shock and awe" or "the Bush Doctrine" or, for that matter, "Mission Accomplished"? Who could forget, but then again, who would want to remember? Chris Matthews, one of the true superstars of cable, makes a good case for remembering tonight with a special edition of his "Hardball" s...

Image via Wikipedia Asia Times Online By Michael Scheuer Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Jordan has been a nation living in an uneasy relationship with the Sunni Islamist movement. With a population more than 50% Palestinian, Jordan became an ever-more useful place for Palestinian radicals to hang ...

Vice President Cheney and his successor, Joseph R. Biden Jr., exchanged insults yesterday in a pair of unusually critical television interviews, laying bare apparent animosity between the two as Cheney prepares to hand over power next month....

As you will undoubtedly have heard, the Iraqi journalist who lobbed heavy duty leather shoes at Bush has been beaten and tortured in custody. Hardly a novelty in the 'new Iraq', where torture has reached such a scale that the UN described it as being worse than under Saddam Hussein. In light of whic...