IRAQ WAR popularity and IRAQ WAR trends

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Bradley Cooper has picked the first project for his production company, The Warner Bros.-based 22nd & Indiana. Cooper will produce and potentially star in an adaptation of "American Sniper," the tale of "the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History." In the memoir, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recounts his record-setting military history, during which he claims to have k...

Any time Bill O'Reilly visits "The Late Show," it's pretty much guaranteed to get testy. While David Letterman is first and foremost a comedian, he's also fairly outspoken when it comes to politics, and he's certainly not afraid of grilling his guests. And, well, we all know O'Reilly is hardly a shrinking violet, either.  On Wednesday night, Letterman welcomed O'Reilly then jump...

There are no gubernatorial or Senate races on the ballot today in Arkansas and Kentucky, and the GOP presidential nomination is a foregone conclusion. But here are a few storylines that bear watching tonight in the only two states where voters will go to the polls: The rising star In Arkansas’ 4th District, which covers much of the southern part of the state, Iraq War veteran Tom Cotton has ca...

Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will join thousands of protesters this Sunday at the NATO summit in Chicago. We speak to Iraq Veterans Against the War’s Aaron Hughes, who’s among a number of Afghanistan and Iraq war vets planning to return their medals of honor to visiting NATO generalsRead More...

Ex-foreign secretary Jack Straw says it would have been "disgusting" if the UK had sent troops to war in Iraq only after considering if there was enough press support.

Anthony Nicholas Orban, a California detective and an Iraq war veteran, entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity for an April 2010 rape.

Chances are that most of you reading this are opposed to at least some of the following federal laws and policies: the Troubled Assets Relief Program, the auto bailout, the serial raising of the debt ceiling, the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, marijuana prohibition, systematic increases in the Department of Education budget, Medicare Part D, sugar subsidies, obstacles to gay marriage, the nationali...

After the Iraq War started, a girl came up to me on the playground and shouted, "Pick a side, terrorist." Her father was serving in the American military in Iraq and she assumed that was where I was from.

David Blakeley, 33, has broken almost a decade of silence to reveal how his nine-man patrol was denied air support after being surrounded by hundreds of Iraqi troops.

(Reuters) - Oakland police used "an overwhelming military-type response" to disperse Occupy Oakland demonstrators and fired at a former Marine and Iraq war veteran who was critically injured in the clashes in October, according to a report issued on Monday.

The US president who won the Nobel Peace Prize less than nine months after his inauguration has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades. Liberals helped to elect Barack Obama in part because of his opposition to the Iraq war, and probably don’t celebrate all of the president’s many military accomplishments. But they are sizable. Obama ...

One Iraq war veteran from Maine admits E L James' racy novel changed his life, while a retired doctor from Smithtown, New York, likened it to porn.

If you are in New York on Friday, April 20, you'll want to attend this special event, offered as part of the Whitney Biennial: Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras explores issues of war, justice, and power. Her current film trilogy, focusing on America post 9/11, documents the Iraq War, secret state surveillance, and the suspension of [...]

“The Lucky One,” starring Zac Efron as a traumatized Iraq war veteran who walks to Louisiana, has all the trademarks of a Nicholas Sparks movie.

Quiara Alegria Hudes’s play Water by the Spoonful takes 2012 Pulitzer prize for drama

The dude who claims that Lindsay Lohan almost de-kneed him with her Porsche wants her to fart out at least $100,000 into his hands or else he's going to sell a video of her shifty crackie ways. The Iraq War veteran turned hookah lounge manager Thaer Kamal says he has surveillance video of LiLo smashing into him with her car and then trying to cover that shit up by switching seats ...

LOMBARD, Ill. — The uphill Democratic effort to reclaim the House majority got a boost Thursday as three nominees in key Illinois districts began a coordinated campaign against the GOP budget, led by a legless Iraq war veteran who barrels around Chicago’s western suburbs in her Ford F-150 truck trumpeting an economic-fairness agenda. Read full article >>

You've come a loooong way, Spicoli! We are impressed! Ha! During a recent dinner party at his house, Sean Penn sat down with one of his friend's dates, who happened to be an Iraq war veteran. The vet opened up to Sean about his massive medical bills, and the actor/activist listened intently and took him very seriously. Here's [...]

Now that the war is officially over and most U.S. forces have withdrawn, what are the most important take-aways?

Suicide and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder cases are at staggering levels in the US Army. Tragic events such as the one that occurred in 2011 seem commonplace: "A 27-year-old Iraq War veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder killed his 11-year-old sister, before fatally turning a gun on himself"

Gilroy police called off a search Saturday for a woman believed to have been killed by her son, a veteran of the Iraq war suffering from PTSD.

American military doctors are reporting that the number of suicides in the US army rose by 80% after the US launched the war on Iraq.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Assailants waving the battle flag of al-Qaida gunned down 25 policemen Monday in a brazen and well-orchestrated challenge to government control over a strategic town fraught with Iraq war symbolism....

Should US veterans from the Iraq war get a parade?

Pakistan has cautioned the west against attacking Iran over its nuclear ambitions, saying it should learn the lessons from the Iraq war. “West should learn the lessons of the lead-up to the Iraq war while attempting to confront Iran over its nuclear ambitions,” Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar warned.

With a formal dinner for the few, President Obama on Wednesday paid solemn tribute to the many.

The Department of Defense has identified 4,477 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 1,888 who have died as part of the Afghan war and related operations.

Admiration and respect for the Pulizter Prize winning journalist quickly spread online

Release Time:  For Immediate Release James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:39 P.M. EST MR. CARNEY:  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  Thanks for coming to the White House for your daily briefing.  Before I take questions let me read a brief announcement. On Wednesday, February 29th, President Obama and First Lady Michel...

Anonymous has struck — and struck again. Early Friday, the FBI said that hackers from the well-known collective had intercepted and released a confidential conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard. Read full article >>

US President Barack Obama has hailed the end of the war in Iraq and the death of Osama bin Laden in his key State of the Union address.

Police investigating claims that a piece from a Saddam Hussein statue was illegally brought to Britain after the Iraq war say they have arrested a man for questioning.

Itzcoatl Ocampo, the Iraq war veteran accused of killing four homeless men in the past month, stalked his victims before striking, according to Orange County prosecutors.

Family describes accused as a troubled Iraq war veteran whose own father lived on the streets

Before a fourth killing in Orange County, California, an Iraq war veteran who was later arrested warned his homeless father to be careful.

An anonymous reader writes "The Stanford Law Review Online has just published an Essay by Yale's Stephen L. Carter entitled 'The Iraq War, the Next War, and the Future of the Fat Man.' He provides a retrospective on the War in Iraq and discusses the ethical and legal implications of the War on Terror and 'anticipatory self-defense' in the form of drones and targeted killings going forward. He w...

Cops have arrested a man and charged him with beating an off-duty police officer and Iraq war veteran after the NHL Winter Classic in Philad ...

A Marine sergeant charged in the biggest criminal case against US troops in the Iraq war lost control of himself when he and his squad killed 24 Iraqis in one of the defining moments of the war, according to a military prosecutor.

The Iraq war is over, but the questions may never end.

Philadelphia police released a video of a fight between hockey fans that left one man needing stitches. The injured man is an off-duty police officer and Iraq War veteran.

An Iraq war veteran who was found dead at Mount Rainier National Park in the U.S. Northwest a day after he killed a park ranger drowned in a creek after suffering from hypothermia, a medical examiner's spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

A body found face down in the snow at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state is that of an Iraq war veteran suspected of killing a park ranger, US authorities have said.

The last convoy of US soldiers pulled out of Iraq on Dec 18, ending their occupation and nearly nine years of war and military intervention that cost almost 4,500 American and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives. [Read more]

The dramatic ways the U.S. military altered course during the Iraq War are recounted by soldiers and Marines there during turning points.

The U.S. may have left Baghdad, but one aspect of the Iraq War lives on: a database of biometric information on 3 million Iraqis. That treasure trove is stored digitally in Tampa by the U.S. military command responsible for the Middle East, which will use it for ongoing counterterrorism hunts worldwide -- and lend it out to the Iraqis.

J. Freedom du Lac reports in the Washington Post that Army Spec. David Emanuel Hickman, killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on November 14th, was the 4,474th US servicemember to be killed in Iraq. With all the US troops now gone from Iraq, Hickman's death may well be the last servicemember fatality directly attributed to this conflict. The number of Iraqi deaths is much higher and much less pr...

The Pentagon officially pronounced its $3 trillion-and-counting, “war on terror”-related invasion, occupation and decimation of the Iraqi nation dead on Thursday even as the country prepared for a low-intensity civil war and the Muslim world wondered whatever happened to the George W Bush administration’s Greater Middle East. In an… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Art reflecting life or life reflecting art? The end of the Iraq war and Season 1 of “Homeland” have everyone on edge.

America owes a debt of gratitude to the activists who opposed the Iraq war from the start, and who kept the pressure on.As the United States completes its withdrawal from Iraq, it is worth pausing to remember the determined peace activists who opposed the war from the start, including one who took up their cause and became president.

IT WAS altogether less triumphalist and more subdued than George Bush’s notoriously misconceived 2003 “mission accomplished” moment. But Barack Obama, who had previously described the nine-year Iraq war as “dumb” and made an election promise to bring the troops home, was still putting the best gloss on what has certainly not been the most glorious episode in the history of the US military and o...

Former president's conviction for embezzling public funds seen as historic moment for French democracyJacques Chirac may have hoped to be remembered as the dapper president and diplomatic heavyweight who retired from the world stage to become the unofficial grandfather of his nation. A man of "flesh and blood and principles … employed in the service of his country," as he put it.Instead, his pl...

The US military officially declared an end to its mission in Iraq today even as violence continues to plague the country and the Muslim world remains distrustful of US power.

Nearly 9 years after invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, US Defense Secretary Panetta packs up military flag.

US president marks end of the conflict with speech to troops to thank them for sacrifice

President Obama hailed U.S. troops and said the Iraq war will formally end Thursday, when an American flag signifying the U.S. military mission is ceremonially taken down.

The Iraq war ushered in dramatic advances in battlefield medicine, with the effects of homemade bombs leading the US military to radically change how it treats wounded soldiers.

As the U.S. completes its military withdrawal from Iraq, some say there are huge lessons to be learned about the limits of U.S. power.

Staff Sgt. Marcus Gable - and more soldiers - share their emotional stories after returning from Iraq

No, a hacked HP printer can't burn down your house or office, but HP has a fix in the works anyway.

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta phoned Iraq War vet J.R. Martinez to congratulate him on his "Dancing With the Stars" win earlier this week and called him a "testament of the strength and resilience of our wounded warriors," a Pentagon spokesman said Friday.

Former U.S. President George W. Bush and British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair were Tuesday found guilty at a mock tribunal in Malaysia for committing 'crimes against peace' during the Iraq war

The Iraq War veteran injured during a police crackdown on Occupy Oakland vows to keep protesting.

The Iraq War veteran is the favorite going into the semifinals of 'Dancing With the Stars.'

The first three weeks of hearings have done little to blunt a common view in Britain that the war was a historic blunder.