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  • May 2008

    • Journos Pick at McClellan Portrayal

      Time  |  May 28, 08 3:56 PM CDT

      Journos Pick at McClellan Portrayal

      (Newser) - Scott McClellan writes in his memoir that “the ‘liberal media’ didn't live up to its reputation” on Iraq. “If it had, the country would have been better served.” Some insider reactions: “You know you're a wussy press corps when the former White House Press Secretary says you were too easy on him,” James Poniewozik writes in Time . He agrees many writers were worried about appearing unpatriotic in the run-up to war, but it’s “pathetic” McClellan was parroting President Bush when he knew better. More »

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      Iraq war  • media bias  • Scott McClellan

    • McClellan Blasts Bush in Harsh New Memoir

      Politico  |  May 27, 08 8:24 PM CDT

      McClellan Blasts Bush in Harsh New Memoir

      (Newser) - Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan blasts President Bush for not being "open and forthright" about the war in Iraq and using "propaganda" to sell it, Politico reports. The president "veered terribly off course," McClellan writes in his surprisingly harsh new memoir. He also criticizes the press for not challenging Bush enough, even while admitting that some of his own statements at press conferences were "badly misguided." More »

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      George W. Bush  • Iraq war  • White House  • Scott McClellan

    • Stress Disorder Surges Among US Troops

      Reuters  |  May 27, 08 5:00 PM CDT

      Stress Disorder Surges Among US Troops

      (Newser) - Post-traumatic stress disorder is surging among US troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. New cases rose by more than 46% to nearly 14,000 in 2007, reports Reuters. In the last five years, about 40,000 cases have been diagnosed, most of them in the Army. More »

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      Iraq war  • military  • Afghanistan war  • PTSD  • Army

    • General on Funeral Duty: 'Grief Is the Crushing Load'

      Washington Post  |  May 26, 08 12:33 PM CDT

      General on Funeral Duty: 'Grief Is the Crushing Load'

      (Newser) - At every funeral for a soldier killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, an Army officer attends, to represent the service and oversee the military rituals involved. Maj. Gen. William Troy has drawn funeral duty 23 times, and for Memorial Day, he writes in the Washington Post about an always-wrenching experience : "You comfort where you can and bear witness to the loss." More »

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      Iraq war  • Afghanistan war  • Iraq death toll  • military funeral

    • In Wartime, Soldiers' Kids Graduate Alone

      Associated Press  |  May 23, 08 4:16 PM CDT

      In Wartime, Soldiers' Kids Graduate Alone

      (Newser) - Fort Campbell High’s graduation had the usual pomp and circumstance—along with a familiar pall. Many of the seniors crossing the stage did so without a mom or dad watching from the audience. Fort Campbell is the biggest military base high school in the US, and nearly every student at the Tennessee school has, or had, a parent in Iraq or Afghanistan, the AP reports. It’s a painful bond for the 116 students. More »

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      Iraq war  • military bases  • military families

    • Audit Shows Billions Unaccounted for in Iraq

      New York Times  |  May 23, 08 11:20 AM CDT

      Audit Shows Billions Unaccounted for in Iraq

      (Newser) - A Pentagon audit of $8.2 billion in taxpayer money spent in Iraq found that nearly all of the handouts skirted federal rules, and millions of dollars in contracts were awarded with little or no record of what they were for, reports the New York Times . Take the $320.8 million that was issued to 1,000 Iraqis for "Iraqi Salary Payment"—$320,800 a head—with no explanation of what they were compensated for. More »

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      Iraq war  • US military  • Pentagon  • Iraq war spending  • contractors  • Iraq contractors  • audit

    • Make Dams and Food, Not War and Ethanol

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 22, 08 4:55 PM CDT

      Make Dams and Food, Not War and Ethanol

      (Newser) - Ethanol is among the "poor solutions to high-profile problems" researcher Bjorn Lomborg blasts in the Wall Street Journal . According to calculations by his Copenhagen Consensus, “carbon mitigation policies” return only 90 cents for every dollar spent; in contrast, he writes, $1 billion spent on tuberculosis would result in an “annual economic benefit” of $30 billion. More »

    • Bush Attack Provides Boon to Obama Camp

      Politico  |  May 17, 08 12:26 PM CDT

      Bush Attack Provides Boon to Obama Camp

      (Newser) - President Bush’s comments this week about Nazi appeasement have allowed Barack Obama to polish his attacks on the administration and John McCain. Obama seized on the criticism as a two-for-one opportunity, saying there’s “no separation” between Bush and McCain on Mideast policy. The Dem’s tough response could signal his bid to use the war to undermine McCain’s credibility, writes Carrie Budoff Brown in Politico. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • George W. Bush  • Iraq war  • foreign policy

    • House Rejects $162.5B Bill to Fund Wars

      Washington Post  |  May 15, 08 5:10 PM CDT

      House Rejects $162.5B Bill to Fund Wars

      (Newser) - The House today shot down a $162.5 billion bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into next year after a surprise tactic by angry Republicans, the Washington Post reports. The bill failed by a vote of 148-141 after 132 members of the GOP abstained. By doing so, they formed an unusual coalition with a group of anti-war Democrats. The vote doesn't mean the wars won't be funded, however—the bill will be revived in the Senate next week. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Congress  • House of Representatives  • Afghanistan war  • Iraq war spending  • war funding

    • Moore's $20M for Fahrenheit 9/11 Sequel Is Mainly Profit

      New York Post  |  May 15, 08 2:30 PM CDT

      Moore's $20M for Fahrenheit 9/11 Sequel Is Mainly Profit

      (Newser) - Who says documentary filmmaking isn’t profitable? Sources tell the New York Post that Michael Moore will receive $20 million in advance to produce the sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11 , even though production costs are estimated at only $7 million. Studio Paramount Vantage may be willing to give Moore a $13 million bonus because of his track record: The original grossed $219 million. More »

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      Iraq war  • film  • September 11  • documentary  • Michael Moore  • Iraq war movies

    • Bush Sacrificed Golf to 'Honor War Dead'

      Politico  |  May 14, 08 6:52 AM CDT

      Bush Sacrificed Golf to 'Honor War Dead'

      (Newser) - President Bush gave up playing golf five years ago because he felt it was inappropriate to play while families mourned loved ones killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, he revealed in an interview with Politico. Bush was lampooned for playing golf while discussing terrorism in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Iraq war  • terrorism  • golf  • Afghanistan war  • casualties  • soldiers' families

    • Freed From Gitmo—to Kill in Iraq

      New York Times  |  May 8, 08 3:29 AM CDT

      Freed From Gitmo&mdash;to Kill in Iraq

      (Newser) - One of the suicide bombers responsible for a series of attacks in the Iraqi city of Mosul last month is a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, reports the New York Times. The Kuwaiti, originally detained in Afghanistan, is said to have traveled to Iraq via Syria to join jihadists after his release in 2005. Several Gitmo detainees are known to have returned to insurgent status, officials say. More »

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      Iraq war  • Iran  • al-Qaeda  • terrorism  • Guantanamo Bay  • Mosul  • enemy combatants  • detainees  • Hoshyar Zebari  • suicide bombers

    • Crucial White House Emails Remain Lost

      Washington Post  |  May 7, 08 10:57 AM CDT

      Crucial White House Emails Remain Lost

      (Newser) - White House emails from March-September 2003—the first few months of the Iraq invasion—still have not been found, the Washington Post reports. An advocacy group is suing for the release of the emails, and federal law requires such high-level communications be preserved. Officials, still searching, say the data might have been mislabeled, and could yet be retrieved from disaster-recovery tapes. More »

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      Iraq war  • White House  • email  • disaster recovery  • servers

    • Rumsfeld Dodged Early Iraq Failures: Sanchez

      Time  |  May 4, 08 11:34 AM CDT

      Rumsfeld Dodged Early Iraq Failures: Sanchez

      (Newser) - Early mistakes in Iraq—and the extent of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's involvement in them—are the subject of a Time excerpt from a book by the former commander of US forces in Iraq, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. Sanchez details an effort by Rumsfeld to get him to agree, on paper, that Rumsfeld had been out of the loop on the premature drawdown of strategic command forces that led to disarray—a claim Sanchez vehemently denies. More »

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      Iraq war  • US Army  • Donald Rumsfeld  • Abu Ghraib  • Department of Defense  • Ricardo Sanchez  • cover up  • CentCom

    • Bombs Kill Dozens in Iraq

      Associated Press  |  May 1, 08 4:52 PM CDT

      Bombs Kill Dozens in Iraq

      (Newser) - As US forces engaged in heavy fighting in the Mahdi Army's Sadr City today, bombings in Baghdad and Diyala province took the lives of as many as 45 Iraqis and one US soldier, the AP reports. The Diyala bombing, in Balad Ruz, was carried out by two suicide bombers—one of them a woman—during a wedding celebration. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • al-Qaeda  • US military  • wedding  • suicide bombing  • Iraq death toll  • al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia  • female suicide bomber

    • Dockworkers Strike Against Iraq War

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 1, 08 4:25 PM CDT

      Dockworkers Strike Against Iraq War

      (Newser) - In an action their union says is a protest against the war in Iraq, dockworkers from Washington to Southern California have taken May Day off, crippling West Coast port traffic, the Los Angeles Times reports. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose contract is up in 2 months, was ordered by an arbitrator to show up today. More »

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      Iraq war  • Los Angeles  • San Diego  • Seattle  • labor unions  • labor strike  • political protest  • labor relations  • port  • Long Beach

    • Dems Jeer 'Iraq Victory' Anniversary

      Politico  |  May 1, 08 3:15 AM CDT

      Dems Jeer 'Iraq Victory' Anniversary

      (Newser) - Five years ago today, President Bush bounded out of a fighter jet onto a deck of an aircraft carrier and, under a huge "Mission Accomplished" banner, boasted to cheering troops that major combat operations in Iraq had ended. As the war drags on into its sixth year, congressional Democrats are using the anniversary to highlight the administration's "arrogant" mishandling of Iraq, Politico reports. More »

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      Iraq  • George W. Bush  • Iraq war  • US military  • aircraft carrier  • Robert Byrd

  • April 2008

    • Clintonites: Obama's Copying Us

      Chicago Tribune  |  Apr 21, 08 4:32 PM CDT

      Clintonites: Obama's Copying Us

      (Newser) - Hillary Clinton's campaign is fuming at what it perceives as Barack Obama's plagiarism of its policy ideas, the Chicago Tribune reports. "I came up with that a year ago,” Clinton said of the stimulus package her rival is boosting. Obama's formula, her advisers argue, is glomming onto a Clinton idea, adding extra millions, and pitching it as his own. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Iraq war  • economic stimulus package  • plagiarism

    • Iraqi Troops Seize Sadr Stronghold

      Reuters  |  Apr 19, 08 9:11 AM CDT

      Iraqi Troops Seize Sadr Stronghold

      (Newser) - In a major new clash, Iraqi troops backed by American and British firepower today captured a stronghold of fighters loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Basra, said Iraqi officials. In a show of force, American planes and British artillery attacked a deserted area outside the Sadr-controlled section of Hayaniya before Iraqi troops moved into the neighborhood and seized the center, Reuters reports. More »

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      Iraq war  • US military  • Baghdad  • Muqtada al-Sadr  • Basra  • Sadr City  • Iraq Army  • British military

    • Mental Disorders Huge Issue for US Troops

      Associated Press  |  Apr 17, 08 3:40 PM CDT

      Mental Disorders Huge Issue for US Troops

      (Newser) - 300,000 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have either post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression, and another 320,000 suffered brain injuries, the AP reports. RAND Corporation, in the first private evaluation of mental injury from the conflicts, found 18.5% of combat troops suffered from major depression or PTSD. "There is a major health crisis facing those who have served," said a researcher. More »

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      Iraq war  • health care  • Afghanistan war  • PTSD  • Iraq veterans  • traumatic brain injury  • brain injuries

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