The slow crawl towards the publication of Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry is to be delayed again, amid suspicion the government is postponing all controversial announcements until after June’s EU referendum. The Iraq Inquiry officially began taking evidence in 2009, finishing the process
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that he misspoke when he said the war in Afghanistan was a mistake and that he took differing positions on accepting Syrian refugees within a day of each other because “the number had increased
Two suspects were arrested just days after surveillance video showed a decorated Marine veteran being brutally attacked by a group of black teenagers outside of a McDonald’s located in Washington, D.C.
During an interview with Howard Stern (discovered by the left-wing site BuzzFeed), back on September 11th, 2002, six months before the Iraq War began, Donald Trump was asked about his support for the war, which at that point was still
Thursday at CNN’s Republican town hall, host Anderson Cooper and audience member Orrin Smith confronted Donald Trump several times over whether he believes George W. Bush lied to get America to invade Iraq. Transcript as follows: COOPER: I want to
A new Bloomberg poll of South Carolina shows Donald Trump maintaining a strong lead in the state heading into Saturday’s primary. Trump has the support of 36 percent of likely Republican voters, followed distantly by Ted Cruz in second with
Former Vice President Dick Cheney responded to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s criticisms of the Bush administration over the Iraq War and September 11th by stating that Trump “sounds like a liberal Democrat” and “doesn’t understand, or has not spent
in Trump’s 2000 book, The America We Deserve, he said that Iraq had continued to develop WMDs and that it might be necessary to ““carry the mission to its conclusion” to stop Saddam Hussein.
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump warned if the Republican Party isn’t willing to admit the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a mistake, then the party will be defeated in the upcoming general election.
Senator Bernie Sanders met with President Obama at the White House today to discuss the 2016 primary and his campaign against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
During a Sirius XM town hall meeting hosted by Stephen K. Bannon of Breitbart News, Senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul was asked the question that has defined much of his political career: how can Americans be effectively protected from terrorist threats like ISIS, without unduly compromising individual liberty?
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders hammered Hillary Clinton over the Iraq War and Wall Street during Monday night’s CNN town hall event in Iowa.
While Hillary Clinton claimed that ISIS is using Donald Trump to recruit members, reality shows that worldwide terrorism skyrocketed due to the policies of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her boss, President Barack Obama.
Continuing in its recent tradition of casting the United States as all that is evil in the world, Salon.com has once again published a piece insisting that the U.S. is the scariest, most dangerous country in the world and that America is what ails humanity, even more so than radical Islam.
“CNN Newsroom” anchor Carol Costello said that criticisms that Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton missed the rise of ISIS are “valid” during an interview with the pro-Clinton group Correct the Record’s Senior Adviser former Michigan Governor
Lt. General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has been outspoken in his criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the Islamic State before, but his new interview in Der Spiegel contains some of his toughest words yet, and he offers stern criticism of the Bush administration as well.
The most basic, primitive honor a nation owes to its dead is to fight to defend itself—to defeat the enemy and win. And yet the West won’t.
“The reason we have a debt is because George W. Bush led us into war,” Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Martin O’Malley told Rachel Maddow at a candidate forum in South Carolina Friday.
Decorated U.S. military veteran Andrew Alan Myers, who survived three deployments to Iraq, was fatally shot by a gunman during a rampage on a street in Colorado Springs.
Following intense pressure from David Cameron, UKIP, and the families of soldiers killed in the Iraq War to speed up his timetable, Sir John Chilcot has written to the Prime Minister saying he will publish his Iraq Inquiry report next June or
Representative Steve Russell (R-OK), an Iraq War veteran who was part of the team that tracked down Saddam Hussein, argued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “wrong” to say the world would be better off with Saddam Hussein in power on
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has finally apologised for the Iraq War – and admitted he could be partly to blame for the rise of Islamic State (ISIS). The frank confession comes after 12 years in which he steadfastly refused
Former British prime minister Tony Blair was committed to joining the United States in the Iraq war a year before the 2003 invasion, documents obtained by a Sunday newspaper suggested. The revelations focus on a memo allegedly written by former
MSNBC host Chris Matthews admitted “we’re all guilty” on the Iraq War, and this includes Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State John Kerry in an exchange with GOP presidential candidate and former New York Governor George Pataki on
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) announced on Tuesday that he is not supporting President Obama’s Iran deal, becoming the second Democratic Senator to do so, joining Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in refuting the accord.
As anger mounts at the painfully slow progress made by the independent inquiry into the Iraq War, Prime Minister David Cameron has again demanded its publication. The problem facing those wanting a timely release of the Iraq Inquiry’s findings is that its independence
On Saturday in Des Moines, IA, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized Iraqi officials as “a bunch of crooks,” and blasted fellow candidate former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for his remarks that “the Iraqis want our help. They want to know
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused fellow candidate former Florida Governor Jeb Bush of backtracking on the Iraq War to defend his brother’s legacy at a press conference in New Hampshire on Friday. Trump said, “We spent $2 trillion in
Thursday at a national security forum in Davenport, IA, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush contradicted his brother President George W. Bush’s infamous 2003 mission accomplished speech on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln declaring an end to major combat operations
A new group called Veterans Against the Deal has produced its first viral video criticizing President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, featuring medically-retired Staff Sgt. Robert Bartlett.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) officially announced Friday that he would oppose the Iran deal, and hit back at President Barack Obama for lumping critics of the Iran deal with supporters of the Iraq war.
Fox News co-moderator Megyn Kelly asked former Florida governor Jeb Bush a question about “your brother’s war” at the Republican presidential debate in Cleveland on Thursday evening.
Peter Van Buren is a former State Department diplomat with 24 years of experience. In an interview on Tuesday he told me how the system for transmitting classified and unclassified material works at the State Dept. under normal circumstances. He also told me no one could do what Hillary Clinton did on her private server without prompting an investigation.
The long-delayed publication of the Chilcot Report, the findings of the official inquiry into the Iraq War, has prompted new anger over the fees paid to Sir John Chilcot and his fellow committee members. As demands for immediate publication mount there are
The mother of deceased British student Jeremiah Duggan, Erica Duggan, held a press conference insisting that German authorities engaged in a “cover-up” over her son’s death, and Berlin gave a free pass to an anti-Semitic hate group.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump argued that some of the Republican governors running for president “got a little bit lucky with the fracking” while laying out his positions on illegal immigration and the Middle East among other issues in an
The family of fallen Iraq war hero Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta accepted the nation’s second-highest award for valor, the Navy Cross, on his behalf nearly a decade after the Pentagon denied him the Medal of Honor.
This was supposed to be the moment where John Kerry would finally make the history books. Or, at least, make the history books for something other than losing the presidency to George W. Bush in the midst of a wildly unpopular war in Iraq, which, if you think about it, is a pretty remarkable feat.
America’s war veterans are among the most unappreciated members of society. Countless films and documentaries put out by Hollywood and the mainstream media fail to accurately depict their true grit and the horrors they have faced to battle evil the world.
Sunday on MSNBC’s “Taking The Hill,” in contrast to the findings of veteran journalist Bob Woodward, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused President George W. Bush of a “gross misrepresentation’ of the treat of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein having weapons
