After directing his caucus to vote “present” on a $162.5 billion proposal to continue funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — a move that effectively...

McCain is now saying that he can win the Iraq win in "only" 5 years if he becomes president. Only five years. He's gotta be kidding. Just five more years, folks. ...

As House members debated the latest "emergency supplemental" spending bill for Iraq, David Obey delivered a nice smackdown to John Culberson (R-TX) after he tried to trot...

Attention regarding the military is currently focused, understandably, mostly on the war in Iraq and, secondarily, Afghanistan and beyond. But given how this...

A new US government report reveals that nearly 2,500 children, being held in military custody in Iraq and Afghanistan by the United States, are not uniformly protected as...

Two twin-rotor Army Chinook helicopters were vandalized during production at a Boeing factory near Philadelphia, the Pentagon announced today. The CH-47 is the workhorse...

Barack Obama wants to sit down and have tea and discuss the issues (using his amazing diplo-fu) with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It’s all about hope! and change! and...

Does Republican presidential hopeful John McCain really plan on withdrawing troops from Iraq by 2013? Editor in Chief Matt Welch wades into the quagmire to find out....

Bawk! Bawk! By a vote of 149-141, the Democrat-controlled House rejected a measure that would have given the Pentagon $162.5 billion to keep the wars in Iraq and...

This is the story of Army Staff Sgt. Chad Caldwell, a 24-year-old Spokane native who died April 30 when an IED went off while he was on patrol in Mosul, Iraq. It was the...

The House has just passed two of three amendments constituting the emergency supplemental bill. Amendment #1, which contained the funding for the wars in Iraq and...

The Democrat strategy of sneaking a bill to the floor they had over 450 days to get through Committee and Amendment and debate has succeeded. Obey and...

What the hell's wrong with Bob Gates, the Defense Secretary no one ever talks about? Recently he's been running his yap with all sorts of liberal Democrat treasonspeak...

McCAIN AND WITHDRAWAL....Back at the end of January, John McCain's coup de grâce against Mitt Romney was a completely bogus charge that Romney wanted to "wave a...

NBC News reports “that as of this week American military and civilian officials have cut off all contact with controversial Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi”...

McCain's gone on the predictable offensive of painting Obama as a naive, pacifist, yellow-bellied, "Iran appeaser." Josh Marshall's got it right that Obama must stay on...

OK, that's it! Let no one say that the administration has not handled the situation with its typical forbearance and caution. Other, rasher leaders would have shunned...

“If House Democrats want to ramp up spending on other government programs, those items should be considered separately…A troop funding bill should fund the troops....

Bush, as it turns out, can't even tell the truth about giving up golf for the troops: Of War & Golf. Keith Olbermann sez: ...a topic nobody thought a President would...

In a speech today, John McCain will declare his new plan for Iraq.  Except it's not a plan.  It's new ideas.  Well, maybe not so much new ideas.  It's...