National Security Begins at Home
Earlier this year I returned home after serving in the U.S. Navy for 31 years. I decided to run for Congress because the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress are taking our country in the...
View ArticlePresident's Statements Belie War Decision
I was surprised when I heard President Bush's statement at the conclusion of his meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He actually said "I thank these men who wear our uniform for a very candid and...
View ArticleDefense IG Report Shows We Were Deliberately Misled
It is important for the public to see why the Pentagon’s Inspector General concluded that Secretary Doug Feith’s office "developed, produced and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments...
View ArticleSunni Violence
According to the Washington Post, next year the Pentagon is planning a drawdown from 150,000 troops to somewhere around 40,000 at Bush’s recent mention of a long-term South Korean occupation model. A...
View ArticleWhat Would the Levin Amendment Do? (Sen. Mitch McConnell)
The Senate has now had a full day to debate the Levin Amendment. And the questions I raised about it yesterday remain unanswered. Americans need to know what they’re being asked to consider. The...
View ArticleConfessions of an Anti-Iraq War Democrat: Memories of a Purple Finger
I remember the exact moment I had my first serious doubts about whether I was 100 percent right that the U.S. preemptive invasion of Iraq and the take-out of Saddam Hussein was a serious mistake. I had...
View ArticleCongressional Visit to Iraq, Part I (Rep. Jared Polis)
From an undisclosed location somewhere in the Middle East... When I first visited Iraq in November of ’07, I flew commercial to Jordan and the Baghdad, crammed into coach the whole way. This time, on a...
View ArticleI Stand with the Speaker and Against Guantánamo
Washington is experiencing déjà vu. Republicans play the politics of fear and many Democrats run for cover. Republicans play the politics of personal destruction, in this case attacking the Speaker,...
View ArticleOVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Senate panel passes NSA bill
The Topline: The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday approved a bill that would largely protect the National Security Agency’s program to collect records on all U.S. phone calls.The legislation,...
View ArticleAl Qaeda, not al-Maliki, driving sectarian violence, says White House
Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, and not Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shia-led government, is the driving force behind the bloody wave of violence that has engulfed Iraq since the U.S. withdrawal two...
View ArticleReport: Al Qaeda leader disbands joint cell
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has disbanded the joint Iraqi-Syrian terror cell, which the White House recently tagged as a transnational threat to the United States. In a statement to Al Jazeera,...
View ArticleAl Qaeda cuts ties with Syrian Islamic group
Al Qaeda’s central leaders said Monday that they had no ties with one of the largest Islamic rebel groups fighting in Syria.Al Qaeda said in a statement Monday that it had “no connection” with the...
View ArticleOfficial: Core Al Qaeda may now view Syria as primary battlefield
Al Qaeda core’s break with one affiliate in Syria and its backing of another there may show that the group now views Syria as the primary battlefield in the region, a Defense official said at House...
View ArticlePentagon: 'Khorasan group' leader killed in Syria
The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that the leader of the Khorasan Group — an Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria focused on hitting Western targets — has been killed. "Muhsin al-Fadhli, a longtime al-Qaeda...
View ArticleAl Qaeda leader breaks 11-month silence
Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the leader of al Qaeda, broke a record 11-month silence this week, issuing a video proclaiming his loyalty to the new head of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. After the...
View ArticleISIS No. 2 leader killed in US airstrike
A U.S. military airstrike last week killed the No. 2 leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the White House announced on Friday. Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz, was...
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