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U.S. Rep. Tom Latham (R-Iowa) was in Iraq with a congressional delegation over the weekend, and the statement he issued after his meetings wrapped up may reveal what he thinks about President Barack Obama’s promise to withdraw U.S. troops from the country quickly.
Latham seems to imply that the goal of federal policy should be to [...]

Aboard a nuclear submarine in the 1960s, Rob Hubler and his fellow crew members received word that war with the Soviet Union had started, that their arsenal was to be released on the enemy.

Democratic congressional candidate Rob Hubler wants people to remember amid all the Sarah Palin hoopla over the last eight days that Republicans still have an eight-year record in the White House to defend. In Omaha, Neb., with two other Democratic candidates for the U.S. House, Hubler, who is running against U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, [...]

In an interview with Bret Hayworth just published in The Sioux City Journal U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, says al-Qaeda has been rendered ineffective and that the U.S. is near victory.
Making his sixth trip to Iraq since the March 2003 U.S. invasion, Iowa 5th District Congressman Steve King said there is such strong improvement [...]

Vets for Freedom, a political action committee, says it is disheartened by the comments first reported by Iowa Independent Friday from U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. In challenging U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the likely Republican presidential nominee, Harkin said he thought McCain’s views were shaped by “always having been in the military” and that [...]

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Friday said the foundation of Republican John McCain’s presidential candidacy, a well-chronicled biography and admiral-branched military family tree, is, in actuality, a danger for the nation, and not the seemingly unassailable asset it has widely been viewed to be.

Sister Simone Campbell, who will visit Iowa on Tuesday, met with Iraqi refugees earlier this year with a delegation of women religious. For 10 days in January, on a visit sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, she heard stories from families in Syria and Lebanon. The trip was her second to the region; in 2002, she [...]

Air Force veteran and conscientious objector Jason Munford talked about his experience during a panel on Wednesday at the University of Iowa. He became a conscientious objector before being deployed to Iraq and shared some details from his struggle to become a military CO. Video interview below the fold.

The University of Iowa Anti-War Committee hosted a local version of the Winter Soldier hearings Wednesday.
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Church bells around the town of Clinton, Iowa, were rung in remembrance of the start of the War in Iraq on Wednesday.
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