Drilldown: Opinions

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• $646,214 Per Government Job
• $825B, keep the change

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• 'Historic' Stimulus Is Egregious Waste
• 'See No Progress'
• 'Stimulus' Follies: Pelosi's Poison
• 'We wrote the bill'

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• 5 Points on the Critical State of the Economy

A

• A 40-Year Wish List
• A Fiscal Gamble
• A large stimulus bill for large problems
• A looming fiasco?
• A more realistic timetable for withdrawal
• A Plan for Iraq
• A Plan to Hold Iraq Together
• A principled option for U.S. president: Endorsing Gary Johnson, Libertarian
• A road map out of Iraq
• A War We Just Might Win
• A War We Must End
• Abandoning Iraq
• Abandonment
• Active Appeasement
• After 9 years, time for troops to leave Iraq
• Al Qaeda on the Run
• Al Qaeda's Quagmire
• America and Britain should quit Iraq as soon as possible
• An $800 Billion Mistake
• An Exit to Disaster
• An overoptimistic stimulus plan
• Another Thousand Lives
• Anti-war, Pro-democracy
• Antiwar Wackadoos Are Winning
• Are Bush's critics right?
• As March 20 turns over, a bit of hope for better times in Iraq

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• ‘Inspiring Progress’ on Iraq?
• ‘Stuck on Lost’

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• “Civil War” Doesn't Mean It’s Over

B

• Bad medicine: Stimulus bill is sickening
• Bad politics and urgent remedies
• Bad timing on Iraq
• Bang for the Bucks
• Barack's Iraq Attack
• Bring the troops home
• Bring them home
• Britain leaves Iraq in shame. The US won't go so quietly
• Bush clings to a lost cause in Iraq
• Bush is right: Fight today, or occupy forever
• Bush must call for reinforcements in Iraq
• Bush won't end Iraq war on his own
• Bush's Iraq Legacy
• Bush's refusal to see his war isn't working puts American security at risk

C

• Capitulation and 'spillover'
• Change for the worse
• Change That Matters
• Civil War? What Civil War?
• Cleaner and Faster
• Concluding the Terrible Mistake We Made in Iraq
• Confessions of a 'Defeatocrat'
• Congress Must Act On Iraq
• Congress vs. commander in chief
• Conscience and the War
• Cut and Lose

D

• Defeat at Any Price
• Defeat in Iraq
• Defeat on the homefront
• Democratic Stealth Care
• Democrats Dug In For Retreat
• Democrats' So-Called Leaders are Not Leading on Iraq
• Democrats: Don't cave on ending war in Iraq
• Dems jump gun on Iraq
• Deserting Petraeus
• Direction? Out
• Disappearing Jobs
• Don't Abandon the Iraqis
• Don't Abandon Us
• Don't back down now
• Don't Believe the Stimulus Scaremongers
• Don't Give Up On Iraq Yet
• Doubling Down in Iraq
• Dying for an Iraq That Isn't

E

• Eat Crow, Iraq War Skeptics
• Empty 'stimulus'
• End the occupation
• Escalation? It's Not His Decision to Make
• Even the British are leaving Iraq

• Everything His President Wants to Hear
• Exactly How Does Stimulus Work?

F

• Failure of will: Congress lacks the courage to end a pointless war
• Fighting to Win (Kagan)
• Five years is long enough
• For real stimulus, fix infrastructure
• From Suez to Iraq: how to weaken the will of the West

G

• General Petraeus Needs Time
• George Aiken without the intellectual flair
• Getting Beyond Stalemate to Win a War
• Getting Tough in Washington
• Give the 'Surge' a Chance
• Give voters a choice about war
• Good Sense on Iraq
• GOP greets stimulus bill with ‘audacity of nope’
• Government spending can create jobs
• Grand Delusion

H

• Harman to President Bush: Send More Troops to Iraq...NOT!
• Herbert Hoover Lives
• Hillary Clinton for president (Boston Globe)
• How About a Payroll Tax Stimulus?
• How paranoid little Napoleons took over America
• How to Get Out of Iraq

I

• If we had known then...
• Imperfect stimulus plan is still the best answer
• In Defense of Waste
• In Gaza's Shadow
• Iran on the Horizon
• Iran's Proxy War
• Iraq
• Iraq and Its Costs
• Iraq is broke beyond repair
• Iraq Is the Central Front
• Iraq's New Secret Police
• Iraq, $5,000 Per Second?
• Iraq: A Civil War We Can Still Win
• Iraq: A Mess, But So What?
• Iraq: Five Years Hence
• Iraq: Good News Is No News
• Iraq: No light at the end of the tunnel
• Iraq: Still Worth Some Waiting
• Iraq: The Elephant in the Room
• Iraq: The Real Cost of War Can't Be Ignored
• Iraqi Mirages
• It's about time: After four years, Bush has not made case for staying
• It's inexcusable for Congress not to fund troops in Iraq
• It’s time for Bush and Blair to try plan B – the humility option

J

• Jobs, now

K

• Keynes can't help us now
• Kill Muqtada Now

L

• Last gasps in Iraq
• Leaving Iraq, Honorably
• Leaving Iraq: about time
• Let's get everybody's troops out of everywhere
• Look at the Time
• Looking Forward in Iraq
• Losing sleep over Iraq

M

• Majority of Iraqis Approve of Attacks on US Troops, Why Are We Still There?
• Make the Election About Iraq
• Making the last mistake in Iraq
• Many dead ends in Iraq
• Mission Not Yet Accomplished
• Money for nothing won't grow the economy
• Moving Forward in Iraq
• Mr. Obama on Iraq

N

• Next move in Iraq?
• No Surrender
• No Third Way in Iraq
• Not all stimulus ideas are created equal
• Not so willing: Britain, Denmark show the way on Iraq
• Now That We’ve ‘Won,’ Let’s Come Home

O

• Obama mythology could use some stimulus
• Obama recalibrates on Iraq, and that's as it should be
• Obama’s new deal is the same old blunder
• Of Senators and Soldiers
• On Iraq, a State of Denial
• On the dole again
• On the Edge
• Once the Stimulus Kicks In, the Real Fight Begins
• One Choice in Iraq
• Our troops have earned more time
• Out of Iraq in '08

P

• Party of Surrender
• Pass the stimulus: Republicans oppose needed aid at their peril

• Petraeus' Victory
• Plan B
• Politics of payoff

Q

• Quitting a worthy fight would be a great mistake

R

• Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics
• Real Stimulus Wouldn't Empty Wallets
• Realism demands U.S. get out now
• Reality Check for the Antiwar Crowd
• Reinforce Baghdad
• Remember Iraq
• Reopen talks to keep U.S. force in Iraq
• Republican Retreat
• Resist the urge to leave Iraq
• Resolute redux
• Richard Lugar, Meet David Kilcullen
• Roll Over the Republicans
• Running from Iraq

S

• Same Product, New Package
• Senator Warner's Bad Withdrawal Symptoms
• Send more troops: Iraq must be secured
• Six years on: The struggle continues
• Slice the pork from stimulus program
• Sorry, O: 'I Won' Won't Cover This
• Staying in Iraq for proxy war
• Staying the wrong course in Iraq
• Staying to Help in Iraq
• Stimulated right into being another Europe
• Stimulating Times
• Stimulus bill: On the whole, it makes sense
• Stimulus? Yes, some
• Stop the spending sprees
• Support for Bush's war in Iraq is crumbling fast
• Support the Troops: Bring Them Home
• Support the troops: See the mission through
• Surge's success holds chance to seize the moment in Iraq
• Surrender as 'Realism'
• Switch the fight to Afghanistan

T

• Take Charge
• Tax-Cut Stimulus
• Telling it right
• Ten Months or Ten Years
• The '39 parallel?
• The 'Benchmark' Excuse
• The 'Blame The Iraqis' Gambit
• The 'Quit Iraq' Caucus
• The Action Americans Need
• The Arithmetic of Failure
• The Best Way To Support Our Troops
• The case for staying on
• The Choice on Iraq
• The Clock is Ticking, Mr. President
• The consequences of failure in Iraq
• The Consequences of Failure in Iraq (Gerecht)
• The consequences of quitting Iraq
• The dubious 'civil war' option
• The Entitlement Stimulus
• The fantasy is over, we must partition Iraq and get out now
• The Fierce Urgency of Pork
• The Fiscal Stimulus Will Pay For Itself
• The Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker Hearings and What the Surge in Fact Proves
• The genocide-ocrats?
• The good war: A double standard for Afghanistan
• The Iraq war is already lost
• The Iraqi Upturn
• The Least Immoral Choice
• The Left's Iraq Muddle
• The misleading Vietnam analogy
• The nation needs jobs, not a political agenda
• The New Era of Irresponsibility
• The Only Real Option: Leave Iraq Now
• The price of occupation
• The Real Disaster
• The Republicans' Fatal Misreading of FDR -- and How It Would Worsen The Depression
• The Right Stimulus
• The Right Troops in the Right Places
• The Road Home
• The Same Old Song
• The Senate: chamber of shame
• The Stimulus Advances
• The Stimulus Package Is More Debt We Don't Need
• The Stimulus Tragedy
• The surge -- and a pause