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The President is finally getting bipartisanship, not on health care, but against a war that has morphed into Iraq II as George Will , no ble...

If the new president is serious about Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State as he follows Lincoln's "team of rivals" approach...

Advance word of a new National Intelligence Estimate casts doubt on the idea of "victory" in Iraq, creating problems for both Joh...

The President and Gen. David Petraeus exchanged betting metaphors in planning the Surge, according to Woodward's new book to be publish...

Asked by Rick Warren to name "the three wisest people you would rely on heavily in an administration," John McCain led off with D...

By the end of last week, John McCain was agreeing with Barack Obama that 16 months would be "a pretty good timetable" for withdra...

Unredeemable as his tenure may seem, George W. Bush could leave office on a high note with, to borrow his cowboy terminology, Osama bin Lade...

As Frederick Kagan spins Neo-Con daydreams of "turning a corner," McClatchy reporters on the ground are telling a different story...

The nation's elected lawmakers of both parties spent yesterday pleading with two bureaucrats to give them some idea of when our young pe...

Today, with the next President among the questioners, the stars of the Iraq spectacle come to Capitol Hill for their final performance of t...

The Central Government's surprise offensive against Shiite militias in Basra in the past week was (a) a bold move by Prime Minister Nou...

Gen. David Petraeus' boss, the top US Commander for the Middle East, has done what Colin Powell should have done over five years ago, an...

If reconciliation is going slowly in Iraq, an OpEd piece in today's Washington Post suggests an overlooked answer --box office appeal. ...

In an odd juxtaposition, questions about bringing our troops home and how long Gen. David Petraeus himself will stay have become entwined in...

In a place some Americans may have heard about long, long ago, our man in charge is still trying to figure out how to pacify a country where...

If you wanted to cram all the Bush Administration's folly, stupidity and inability to learn into the story of one person, it would be Ah...

The new American embassy in Iraq is a perfect metaphor for our experience there. It’s unfinished, behind schedule, unsafe to occupy, more ex...

When the 2004 Presidential candidate announced his support for Hillary Clinton this month, Gen. Wesley Clark seemed destined to become a Cab...

It’s getting very Biblical. The debate over what to do next in the Middle East is splintering into as many factions in Washington, D.C. as t...

Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is a drowning man encircled by sharks, who is trying cut his only lifeline by feuding with Gen. David ...