"If I had not deployed, I know I never would have faced this situation," said Greer, 39. If she hadn't been deployed, she might not be getting divorced. "I don't think it should be held against you, and I don't think my time away, or me deploying, affects my ability to be a mother or provide for my ...

The bitterest message of all for the reconstruction program may be the way the history ends. The hard figures on basic services and industrial production compiled for the report reveal that for all the money spent and promises made, the rebuilding effort never did much more than restore what was des...

Sometimes I can't believe what he screws up the nerve to write. In these circumstances, it’s amazing that George Bush decided on the surge. And looking back, one thing is clear: Every personal trait that led Bush to make a hash of the first years of the war led him to make a successful decisio...

Posted By Cernig The Sadrist movement has said it will support independent candidates rather than contest Iraqi provincial elections in its own right, according to the Washington Post. The movement of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that it would not take part in provincial electi...

Like the image I posted back on March 27th, two days after Maliki declared war on the Mahdi, what lends the most poignancy to a situation we have otherwise grown numb to are pictures that are as this elemental. In the latest de-evolution in the unrecognized Shiite civil war, American forces -- with ...

Here's the description of the clip as posted on YouTube. Copy of the popular video on the net right now showing how soldiers are living. I am a Fort Hood solider and can confirm that conditions like these are common and I have personally lived in barracks like these. Today we had our rooms inspe...

Well, I lost. I had a bet with myself, dating back over a year now, that I wouldn't come across a scrap of visual evidence of American bombing in Iraq.  On a roll, I was doubly-convinced about this since the Falloujah-inspired military recently trained its cross-hairs on Sadr City. (By the way, cre...

“Through a ‘Hezbollah-like’ scheme, the Shiite Sadrist movement has established itself as the main service provider in the country,� notes a recent report by Refugees International, an advocacy group. “As a result of the importance of nonstate actors in the delivery of assistance and secur...

it's a great, articulate, informed, insightful, sweeping, and utterly damning overview......

And damn near a third are either rich or retarded. Twenty-eight percent of respondents said they approved of the job he was doing, a number that has barely changed since last summer. 81% in Poll Say Nation Is Headed on Wrong Track By DAVID LEONHARDT and MARJORIE CONNELLY Americans are more dissatisf...