Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush administration's 2003 projections of a $50 billion to $60 billion war.

Or as the neo-conservatives would say, isn't the world safer without Saddam Hussein? So now on to Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. What's 3 trillion per dictator? Just let me know when it is safe for us so I don't have to take off my shoes at the airport.

"According to the New York Times, that viral video of a U.S. Apache helicopter attacking a group of people in a Baghdad suburb -- an attack that killed two Reuters reporters -- has now been viewed at least two million times on YouTube. I was one of those two million viewers, and it's pretty horrifying, especially when you know as you watch that the targets were in fact innocent victims.

But you should watch it anyway, if you want to understand why many Iraqis now want us out of their country and why the United States is less popular than its citizens and leaders think it ought to be. For me, the most remarkable thing about the video is the business-as-usual dialogue between the pilots and crew of the Apache and the ground controllers that are guiding their actions."

Jim McCormick promised his ADE-651 wand could identify anything , including bombs, simply by waving it around with the right RFID card inside. Yeah, totally fake, and now he's in prison. Too bad Iraq already spent $85 million on the devices.

“I am a tourist,” were his first words. Iraqi tourism?

From '68 agitator to staunch supporter of George W Bush's Iraq war—what explains Hitchens's political journey?

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."-- Governor George W. Bush (R)-TX

Four in 10 Republicans still hold this view, compared with 32% of Independents and 27% of Democrats.

The Op-Ed by seven active duty U.S. soldiers in Iraq questioning the war drew international attention just three weeks ago. Now two of the seven are dead.

How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury

She was simply “protecting my tiny little family,” she insisted, adding that “all I could think of was 9/11.” Truly, the terrorists have won.

Australia has more displaced Iraqis than the U.S.?

It’s bigger than Saddam’s palace and, with a cinema, gym and pool, is the safest and smartest place to live in Iraq.

The claim that we are increasingly in control of the battlefields in Iraq is an assessment arrived at through a flawed, American-centered framework.

...and What Should Scare You Instead

The Los Angeles Times reports that Gen. David Petraeus’ upcoming Sept. 15 report on Iraq will be authored by the White House

Soon even voicing an anti-war opinion would be illegal. 1984?

Mr. Lago is the mayor of this scenic Swedish town of 60,000 people, which last year took in twice as many Iraqi refugees as the entire United States

The passing of unchecked information, the fear of appearing unpatriotic in the wake of 9/11, the readiness to join the drumbeat of misinformation about weapons of mass destruction and the willingness of the rest of the media to follow The New York Times.