We are still in Iraq, but we are steadily withdrawing forces. Camp Taji has been handed over to the Iraqi government. The Jail at Camp Taji north of Baghdad holds 3,000 inmates, mostly “low level insurgents”, the military said. Only a small number of inmates have been convicted of a crime with most detained because [...]
Tony Blair’s widely panned appearance at last week’s Chilcot inquiry into the origins of the Iraq war reminded the world about the former British prime minister’s role in that lethal fiasco. Like many of the Iraq war’s instigators here in the United States, Blair has gotten a free pass while flaunting his lack of remorse. [...]
Sullivan has been saying a 2002 Gore Administration would have pushed for a full scale Iraq war as well: I guess my sense is that Gore opposed the Iraq war in part out of bitterness. If you look at Gore’s record – and at TNR, I was hardly unaware of it – it was full [...]