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War Stories 2004:
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- Rumsfeld's Dubious Deficit Cutting Pentagon budget cuts will take years to translate into savings.
Dec. 30, 2004 - Iraq 2004 Looks Like Vietnam 1966 Adjusting body counts for medical and military changes.
Dec. 27, 2004 - Just Another "Unknown Anomaly" Must we spend another $80 billion before we admit missile defense doesn't work?
Dec. 16, 2004 - Rumsfeld vs. the American Soldier What Rummy's survival says about Bush's plans for his second term.
Dec. 8, 2004 - You Call That a Reform Bill? The new national intelligence director will be a toothless figurehead.
Dec. 7, 2004 - All Homeland Security Is Local Which is why Bernard Kerik is the right choice to lead the department.
Dec. 3, 2004 - Questions for Kerik Is he qualified to run the Department of Homeland Security?
Dec. 3, 2004 - The Fastest Way To Send a Message Why is James Baker talking to the president via the New York Times op-ed page?
Dec. 2, 2004 - It's Mullah Time Don't stop worrying about Iranian nukes just yet.
Nov. 30, 2004 - Fried Rice The Bushie who could spoil Condi's dream job.
Nov. 19, 2004 - What the Marine Did The shooting of an unarmed Iraqi was a tragedy. But was it a war crime?
Nov. 18, 2004 - Why Powell Had To Go And how will Condi fare as his successor?
Nov. 15, 2004 - Breaking Up To Stay Together? If Iraq is to survive, the Sunnis must get their share of the oil revenue.
Nov. 12, 2004 - So We Win Fallujah. Then What? The big question is what comes after.
Nov. 8, 2004 - Bush's Second-Term Test Now that the election's over, can the president admit his mistakes?
Nov. 3, 2004 - Osama's Campaign Commercial Does he hope his video will help Bush?
Oct. 31, 2004 - 100,000 Dead—or 8,000 How many Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the war?
Oct. 29, 2004 - Holy Zarqawi Why Bush let Iraq's top terrorist walk.
Oct. 29, 2004 - Reckless or Clueless? Were the administration's Iraq gaffes due to bad thinking or no thinking at all?
Oct. 27, 2004 - When Is a Cut Not a Cut? When it's a con. Bush's deceptive new ad.
Oct. 22, 2004 - Rumsfeld's Legacy "Military transformation"? Mission not-yet-accomplished.
Oct. 19, 2004 - The Reserve Mutiny How the Iraq war is crippling the Army Reserve.
Oct. 18, 2004 - Winning the War for Muslim Minds What Bush can learn from The Battle of Algiers DVD.
Oct. 14, 2004 - War Without Reason The total collapse of Bush's arguments for invading Iraq.
Oct. 8, 2004 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Bush's Iraq Statistics The security forces are inadequate, the coalition is a joke, and reconstruction has barely begun.
Oct. 7, 2004 - A Thin Blue Line Why Iraqi cops are struggling.
Oct. 7, 2004 - You Call That a Major Policy Address? In a week of devastating revelations about his Iraq policies, Bush has nothing new to say.
Oct. 6, 2004 - If He Can't Stand Up to Cheney … Edwards fails to counter the vice president's foreign-policy distortions.
Oct. 6, 2004 - Kerry Takes Round 1 The challenger dominates the foreign-policy debate.
Oct. 1, 2004 - Who Really Deserves a Silver Star? The military's unfair awards system.
Sept. 29, 2004 - Sweet Nothings Bush's U.N. speech offers platitudes instead of solutions.
Sept. 21, 2004 - Missile Defense: Mission Unaccomplished When will Bush stop throwing billions at a failing project?
Sept. 17, 2004 - Does Torture Work? Seymour Hersh evades the question.
Sept. 14, 2004 - Personnel Foul Let's stop fixating on structural problems and figure out how to recruit and reward smart spooks.
Sept. 8, 2004 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention Speeches Setting Kerry's record right—again.
Sept. 2, 2004 - The Friendly Spook Why allies spy on allies.
Sept. 1, 2004 - Dismantle the CIA? What's behind Sen. Roberts' awful intelligence-reform proposal?
Aug. 25, 2004 - Goodbye, Geneva It's time to rewrite the laws of war.
Aug. 24, 2004 - Holiday in Cambodia The "Christmas Eve" attack on Kerry is cheap and almost certainly wrong.
Aug. 23, 2004 - No Way Out Is there any hope of avoiding catastrophe in Iraq?
Aug. 13, 2004 - Spies Like Goss How much of a hack is Bush's CIA nominee?
Aug. 10, 2004 - Dick Nixed It Is this why Bush's intelligence-czar plan is so half-hearted?
Aug. 6, 2004 - Waving the Orange Flag Did the Bushies overplay the latest al-Qaida threat?
Aug. 3, 2004 - Federal Bureau of Incompetence The shameful treatment of Sibel Edmonds proves the FBI's urgent need for reform.
July 29, 2004 - We're Losing the Arms Race With North Korea What's the optimal number of anti-missile missiles? None.
July 27, 2004 - Show Me the Money The 9/11 commission's report is superb, but will it change anything?
July 22, 2004 - Berger With a Side of Secret Documents Is he a criminal or a klutz?
July 21, 2004 - Bush's Foreign Fantasy The president thinks the world is safer than it was three years ago. Which world is he living in?
July 16, 2004 - What Did Bush Know? And what did he think his intelligence agencies knew about Iraqi WMD?
July 14, 2004 - Red Herrings Can the CIA be saved?
July 9, 2004 - For Want of a Bolt ... How the Iraq war could have been lost.
July 7, 2004 - Taking It to the Trenches What the Supreme Court's terrorism decisions will mean for the war effort.
June 29, 2004 - Let's Hear It for the Handover Finally, Bush does something right in Iraq.
June 28, 2004 - Bush Bargains Badly Kim Jong-il outwits W. on nukes.
June 25, 2004 - The False Promises of a Draft Why conscription won't improve the military.
June 23, 2004 - The Pentagon's Fuzzy Math Does anyone know how many soldiers we really need?
June 23, 2004 - It Depends What the Meaning of "Relationship" Is President Bush's Clintonian calibrations on al-Qaida.
June 17, 2004 - Reagan's Osama Connection How he turned a jihadist into a terrorist kingpin.
June 10, 2004 - Ron and Mikhail's Excellent Adventure How Reagan won the Cold War.
June 9, 2004 - Bye, George It's been a bad week for the Bushies.
June 3, 2004 - Gen. Zinni's Job Application Which position in the next administration is he angling for?
June 2, 2004 - What Bush Should Have Said His Iraq speech was only a year late.
May 25, 2004 - Ahmad Chalabi's House of Games His con is up.
May 24, 2004 - Locked in Abu Ghraib The prison scandal keeps getting worse for the Bush administration.
May 17, 2004 - The Buck Stops … Where? Stop blaming your henchmen, Mr. President.
May 14, 2004 - Failing To Recognize Failure Why does the president still trust Rumsfeld's judgment?
May 12, 2004 - I Will Survive Why Bush (probably) won't dump Rumsfeld.
May 7, 2004 - Why Bush Didn't Apologize In his Arab TV interviews, the president refused to say the words Iraqis needed to hear: I'm sorry.
May 5, 2004 - Policing Iraq How to stay in—without staying the course.
May 4, 2004 - The CPA's Multiple Personality Disorder Conflicting accounts about the authority's status are helping it shirk accountability rules.
May 4, 2004 - GI Joe vs. the Jarheads Who's winning the rivalry between the Army and Marine Corps in Iraq? Nobody.
April 30, 2004 - The Fallujah Dilemma If the Marines attack, we can no longer pretend the war is over.
April 27, 2004 - Our Hidden WMD Program Why Bush is spending so much on nuclear weapons.
April 23, 2004 - Hollow Force Has Iraq stretched the U.S. military to its breaking point?
April 23, 2004 - Sideshow Bob Why Woodward always misses the point.
April 21, 2004 - The Out-of-Towner While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard.
April 14, 2004 - Ashcroft Gets a Free Pass Are the commissioners afraid to seem partisan?
April 14, 2004 - Condi Lousy Why Rice is a bad national security adviser.
April 8, 2004 - Iraq Hawks Down Is Fallujah Iraq's Mogadishu?
April 1, 2004 - The Dogs That Didn't Bark Why Colin Powell and George Tenet aren't bashing Richard Clarke.
March 31, 2004 - Richard Clarke KOs the Bushies The ex-terrorism official dazzles at the 9/11 commission hearings.
March 24, 2004 - Dick Clarke Is Telling the Truth Why he's right about Bush's negligence on terrorism.
March 23, 2004 - The Spanish Civil War If Zapatero's Iraq pledges are outrageous, so are Bremer's.
March 18, 2004 - Bush's Latest Missile-Defense Folly Why spend billions on a system that might never work?
March 12, 2004 - Bush Insults Kerry's Intelligence The president's latest attack is even more dishonest than the last.
March 9, 2004 - Egomania, INC Ahmad Chalabi is loyal to just one cause: his own ambition.
March 8, 2004 - John Kerry's Defense Defense Setting his voting record straight.
Feb. 25, 2004 - Good Marines Make Good Neighbors Why a Vietnam War counterinsurgency program is being tried again in Iraq.
Feb. 25, 2004 - Homeland Security's Mystery Money Why no one knows what we're spending on domestic counterterrorism.
Feb. 23, 2004 - Hummer Bummer Why is the White House underfunding armored Humvees?
Feb. 18, 2004 - Do As I Say Bush's empty nuke-proliferation rhetoric.
Feb. 12, 2004 - Bush at Sea Does this war president have any idea what he's talking about?
Feb. 9, 2004 - Trimming the Fat How to put the military budget on a diet.
Feb. 3, 2004 - The Art of Camouflage David Kay comes clean, almost.
Jan. 26, 2004 - Evasions, Half-Truths, and the State of the Union Can we trust this year's speech?
Jan. 21, 2004 - Our Move The Bush administration needs to play—and win—North Korea's game of nuclear chicken.
Jan. 5, 2004
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