Life is a mess in Iraq now. It will be worse than before when they lift the curfew.

Iraq has lied to the world for a very long time about its weapons program,

I felt a hand on my back, movement behind me, my guys making room, someone squeezing into our circle, and then one last hand joined the pile: my Korean aide. I guess it made sense....

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

The Iraq issue is now at critical juncture of whether there will be a military solution or a political one,

It is certain that Iraq’s occupiers, who have imposed their evil presence in Iraq under the pretext of bringing security, are responsible for such devastating accidents.

It is prohibited for Iraq to possess chemical warheads.

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

It’s a thin line between what we’re calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you’re supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how...

Arab countries are doing little for Iraq when they do not send ambassadors to represent them,

Saddam’s politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are not going to be tractable in response to purely peaceable overtures. Indeed, it...

Such impulses have displayed themselves very widely across left and liberal opinion in recent months. Why? For some, because what the US government and its allies do, whatever they do, has to be opposed—and opposed...

He (President Bush) rehashed a lot of anti-Iraq propaganda, … He has no evidence at all; … the American administration used such accusations against Iraq to justify their killing of the Iraqi population.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.

I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.

They (UK officials) are looking at this as something of a triumph, something of a justification for invading Iraq,

Weapons and people coming across the border to undermine Iraq must be stopped, and we’re working with the Iraqis, including the prime minister (Ibrahim Jaafari), to make this message clear to the Iranians,

We were very cognizant of the fact that there are a lot of people being killed over in Iraq every day, and not just foreigners, a lot of Iraqis are being killed. This tragedy that...

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‘evil.’ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. What the president should have done, in...

This isn’t just about Iraq,

I’m not condemning what he did, but he should think of Iraq.

the need for an effective and influential Arab role in Iraq, particularly at this transitional stage.

All those who prefer peace to power, and happiness to glory should thank the colonized people for their civilizing mission. By liberating themselves, they made Europeans more modest, less racist, and more human. Let us...

Nobody said the terrorists can be defeated in one blow. It’s an incremental process. … It’s an ongoing battle, and Iraq has no choice but to put this fire down.

They are not the highest priority. And as a result the real resources that are available in Iraq need to be focused on things like getting this new Iraqi government established, dealing with security and...

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

I felt like I should salute. If only I knew how.

It is imperative, in our perspective, that we drive a wedge between the insurgents and the Sunni population of Iraq . And having them actively involved in the political process is a way to drive...

The latest incidents have increased concerns over ethnic and sectarian tensions in Iraq and the preservation of the country’s territorial integrity.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity with its comrades abroad. After all, Saddam’s ruling Ba’ath Party consolidated its power by first destroying the Iraqi...

The hiring of locally engaged staff (LES) has been a slow, cumbersome and sometimes fruitless process at Mission Iraq, … Due to the security situation and a lack of a well-established national security structure, performing...

All such foreign-armed groups in Iraq must be neutralized and rendered harmless in a manner that is just and legal.

Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the National Review blog in November 2006: ‘I had and have no involvement with...

The evidence points to the need for a very tough discussion with Iraq, where they have to produce evidence that this chlorine was truly for civilian purposes, and I think they are going to have...

Europeans were surprised by how inexorably the U.S. administration was grinding toward denouement with Iraq,

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.

We’ve had Saudis and Jordanians and Pakistanis who have – and Syrians – who have been involved in armed attacks against coalition forces in Iraq.

In my life I’ve been very lucky to travel around the world and see students and teachers in nearly two dozen countries—but the most awe-inspiring experience I’ve ever had was two years after 9/11 when...

The market does have its ongoing concerns about Iran, the new bombing campaign in Iraq and other potential threats to supply (Nigeria, Venezuela) in mind as background issues.

Today, you have some not so great news coming out of the Middle East, violence in Pakistan, violence in Iraq, and that makes the rise in oil prices a bigger issue.

The occupiers of Iraq have imposed their ominous presence on the Iraqi nation under pretext of providing them with security. They are responsible for such tragedies.

Iraq changes positions more often that Saddam Hussein changes bunkers.

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

The greatest regret of my military career was as Commanding General of the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq in 2004-2005, he later wrote of the decision he made. I lost 169 soldiers during that year-long...

I’d like to explain the realities of Iraq,

We’re going to have to face the fact that there are strong centrifugal forces in Iraq that have the potential of tearing the country apart.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking