“Iraq War” on The Daily Caller

Republicans on Capitol Hill are furious over the Obama administration’s handling of a purported Hezbollah commander, who was connected to the killing of five U.S. soldiers in 2007 and now is set for release by an Iraqi court. (more)

After criticizing House Republicans for refusing to “cooperate” and vote for the Senate’s two-month payroll tax cut extension, President Barack Obama said that the GOP-led House could “learn something” from U.S. soldiers who “fight” and “sometimes die together” but “don’t care” about politics. (more)

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators in Baghdad are urging the government to abide by an end-of-year deadline to expel Iranian exiles from Iraq and close their camp here. (more)

James Madison, “The Father of the Constitution,” wrote: “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” (more)

Nixonesque cover-ups are not normally associated with Senator Carl Levin, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Generals and admirals, secretaries of this and CEOs of that, address him deferentially as “Mr. Chairman,” befitting a man at the top of Washington’s interlocking directorates of money and power. (more)

President Barack Obama has an election to win, so he’s praising the U.S. military. “The biggest honor of my job is serving as commander in chief,” he told attendees at a top-dollar political fundraiser on Nov. 7. (more)

Though presidential candidate Herman Cain has been somewhat vague on the campaign trail about several important foreign policy challenges confronting America, over a dozen of his syndicated columns lend insight into his general foreign policy predisposition. (more)

Two of President Barack Obama’s public appearances Friday provided a study in his starkly contrasting attitudes toward two very different constituencies: the scientific community and the United States military. (more)

President Obama’s announcement Friday that U.S. troops in Iraq will draw down to zero by the end of the year was met with swift criticism from GOP presidential candidates, who criticized the president’s decision as political and premature. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq will be over by year’s end and all U.S. troops “”will definitely be home for the holidays,” President Barack Obama declared Friday. (more)

The Obama administration has decided to drop the number of U.S. troops in Iraq at the end of the year down to 3,000, marking a major downgrade in force strength, multiple sources familiar with the inner workings and decisions on U.S. troop movements in Iraq told Fox News. (more)

BAGHDAD (AP) — August marked the first month since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that no American forces have died, according to an Associated Press tally. (more)

The winds of change are blowing once again — this time in the Middle East. When British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made his historic 1960 “Winds of Change” speech in Cape Town about the continent of Africa, he elected to place Britain on the side of history and to hasten decolonization. (more)

The other day, I read an article in the Washington Post entitled “I didn’t deserve my combat pay.” The author, Michael G. Cummings, is right that some deployed servicemen have tougher lives than others. In fact, I readily admit that I had an easier life in Iraq than many other servicemen, especially the ones who deployed during the initial invasion. (more)

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was thought to be many things during the Bush administration: stubborn visionary of Pentagon reform, sender of “snowflake” memos and, by his left-wing critics, evil war monger. (more)

The number of civilians who died as a result of violence in Iraq dropped for a third straight year in 2010, with improvement accelerating after the U.S. declared the official end of combat operations, a nonprofit group reported. (more)

Even on Christmas day, many Americans assume duty and risk their lives for the sake of their country. Because of this, all of us at The Daily Caller would like to show our appreciation and thank the American men and women in harm’s way this holiday season. From WWI to WWII, the Vietnam War to the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts, our troops are always thinking about Christmas, even when they’re far from home. (more)

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday. As the nation was being torn apart by Civil War, Lincoln was able to see the value of a day that celebrates our togetherness and invites us to think about the things we are thankful for. Our country has a number of great traditions and Thanksgiving is one that brings American families together each year. (more)

It is an equation that is as certain as two plus two equals four: Sean Penn + Iraq War + Hollywood movie = something less than the truth. (more)

During the darkest days of al-Qaeda/Baathist terror and sectarian violence in Iraq in 2006-2007, the American and European media were replete with predictions that the country was sliding into a full-fledged civil war or indeed had already done so. Supposedly scientific studies, like the 2006 Lancet study estimating that some 650,000 Iraqis had died as a consequence of the American-led intervention, fueled such speculation and even gave rise to accusations that the Bush administration and the American military were somehow responsible, whether directly or indirectly, for “genocide.” (more)