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Tag: iraq
Iraq a Year Later: Our Man in Baghdad
While media scrutiny has focused attention on November polls for the next U.S. president, the war over the future of Iraq continues to consume lives and money.
Nicholas F. Benton: McCain’s Neo-Con Rant on Georgia
It must be appreciated that the current Russian military operation in Georgia comes in the context of eight years of a profoundly-destructive Bush administration thuggish, unilateralist foreign policy.
‘The Hill’ Editor Spends Four-Day Visit With U.S. Army Chief of Staff
There’s good news and bad news about the war in Iraq as it reaches a critical turning point with the end of the so-called military surge that brought an additional 30,000 troops to Iraq 18 months ago, and as the war becomes a key issue in the U.S. presidential campaign.
Iraq in Their Backpack
As national attention dwells on economic woes and approaching elections, the day-to-day coverage of the Iraq War is lost to quick sound bites and brief flashes across the television screen. Brenda Elthon aims to change that by capturing the American pulse with Songs for our Soldiers, a melodic odyssey that […]
Nicholas F. Benton: Silence Protects the Speculators
Sen. John McCain has once against thrust the burden for solving the energy crisis on individual families in the U.S. “It has to start at home,” he said yesterday, ignoring the overwhelming evidence that it is deep ideological opposition to any regulation of speculative investment by leaders in his party […]
Community News and Notes
Radford Students Named to Dean’s List Five Fall Church residents have been named to the spring semester’s dean’s list at Radford University. Kimberly Anne Clingenpeel, senior management major, Joshua Thomas Hearne, senior foreign language major, Christina Nicole Jatras, junior criminal justice major, Sarah Cristin O’Hanley, senior media studies major, […]
Congressman Moran’s News Commentary
A report released this week by the non-profit research organization Media Matters found that military analysts secretly cultivated by the Pentagon’s communications apparatus appeared a whopping 4,500 plus times on major TV and radio networks since 2002 on segments covering the Iraq war, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and other foreign […]
Congressman Moran’s News Commentary
A report released this week by the non-profit research organization Media Matters found that military analysts secretly cultivated by the Pentagon’s communications apparatus appeared a whopping 4,500 plus times on major TV and radio networks since 2002 on segments covering the Iraq war, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and other foreign […]
Helen Thomas: Worth a Thousand Words
WASHINGTON — Some readers resented The Washington Post for publishing an Associated Press photograph of a critically wounded Iraqi child being lifted from the rubble of his home in Baghdad’s Sadr City “after a U.S. airstrike.”
