Joe Galloway

Commentary: Sins of omission and sins of commission haunt Bush in Pakistan

The unfolding disaster in Pakistan in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is in part a reaction to a series of inactions and actions by the Bush administration during the last six years. | 01/02/08 15:34:24 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: It's not over, over there

In a remarkable and rare display of both caution and good sense, no one in the Bush administration has begun doing victory laps over the good news from Iraq. | 12/20/07 19:59:23 By - Joe Galloway

Commentary: The disgraceful treatment of our veterans

As you do your holiday shopping this year and think about a big turkey dinner and piles of gifts and the good life that most Americans enjoy, please spare a thought for those who made it all possible: Those who serve in our military and the veterans who've worn the uniform. | 12/13/07 18:22:16 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: A critical mess on Iran

The new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which concluded that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program four years ago, was shocking. The fact that it was published at all was astounding. | 12/05/07 20:34:48 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: A day late and a dollar short

This week, President George W. Bush made a half-hearted stab, officially described as “low-key”, at brokering peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and cobbling together a bit of a legacy that doesn’t revolve around crusades in Muslim countries. | 11/29/07 14:56:51 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Good riddance to them all

We are a better people and this is a better country than this. That is why, when it's weighed and judged, the Bush presidency will be found to have perverted not only our system but also the very principles on which our nation was founded. | 11/21/07 17:58:43 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Is waterboarding torture? Yes

When you hog-tie a human being, tilt him head down, stuff a rag in his mouth and over his nostrils and pour water onto the rag slowly and steadily to the point where his lungs fill with water and he's suffocating and drowning, that is torture. All of Judge Michael Mukasey's artful dodging and word play does nothing to change the fact. | 11/07/07 18:09:13 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Inexorable march toward war with Iran?

There were some things far more frightening this week than Halloween's small ghouls and goblins — and the scariest of all is the Bush administration's seemingly inexorable march toward military confrontation with Iran. | 10/31/07 18:11:20 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Galloway column: Asking too much of too few

Although they seem to have faded out of the headlines and been put on the back burner by the politicians in the nation’s capital in recent weeks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind on, whether we're paying attention or not. This week, we had a new estimate that those wars ultimately may cost the American taxpayer a whopping $2.7 trillion. | 10/24/07 17:18:14 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: McCaffrey - 'defense strategy' unbalanced, incoherent and underfunded

One of America’s more thoughtful military strategists, retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a veteran of ground combat in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, says that our “defense strategy is unbalanced, incoherent and underfunded.” | 10/17/07 19:38:46 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Galloway commentary: The evil that men do

Once again, the Bush administration is flimflamming the hapless Democratic majority in Congress into rushing an important piece of legislation into law without serious thought or debate about the implications. | 09/26/07 17:30:40 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Bush fulfills H.L. Mencken's prophecy

We inflicted George W. Bush on ourselves — with a little help from Republican spin-meisters, slippery lawyers, hanging chads and some judicial jiggery pokery — and he has stubbornly marched to the beat of his own broken drum year after year, piling up an unparalleled record of failures and disasters without equal in the nation's long history. | 09/19/07 15:35:14 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Galloway commentary: Bush still refuses to admit he was wrong

Well, now we’ve heard from General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker and President George W. Bush, and it appears that the Surge has succeeded — succeeded in guaranteeing that the Iraq War will drag on for the last 16 months of the Bush presidency at a cost of another 1,600 American dead and $13 billion a month. | 09/14/07 07:44:57 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Can't we do better than this?

Dulce bellum inexpertis. War is sweet only to those who have no experience of it. Maybe that bit from Erasmus can help explain why George W. Bush and Dick Cheney not only won’t consider any way out of Iraq but seek to condemn our troops to fight there for years to come. | 09/05/07 16:20:04 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: For Bush, bad news on every side

If it weren't for bad news, George W. Bush wouldn't have any news at all. Let us count the ways that this lamest of lame-duck Presidents has been hammered in recent days.Two of his closest Texas buddies have jumped ship. First, the man known as Bush's Brain, his political spinmeister Karl Rove, announced that he was gone. Then his legal mouthpiece, the forgetful Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, joined the exodus. | 08/29/07 19:08:01 By - Joseph L. Galloway

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ABOUT JOE

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has called Joseph L. Galloway, a military columnist for McClatchy Newspapers, "The finest combat correspondent of our generation — a soldier's reporter and a soldier's friend."

Galloway is the co-author, with Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, of "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young," a story of the first large-scale ground battle of the Vietnam War. The book was made into a movie of the same name. Galloway was portrayed in the movie by actor Barry Pepper.

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