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Donald Trump threatens Liz Cheney with guns 'trained on her face:' The full context

Trump said during an onstage discussion with disgraced Fox News host Tucker Carlson that Liz Cheney would not be a "war hawk" if "guns are trained on her face."

Transgender Vet Says Trump Supporter Torched Her Truck

Police are investigating what happened to a Tennessee mother and Iraq War veteran.

Lesbian Veteran Finds Love After Trauma

A new documentary shows how an Iraq War veteran learned to smile again. 

WATCH: Cabbie Kicks Out Gay Iraq Vet for Kissing

An incident on Independence Day in Tacoma, Wash., has a gay veteran of the Iraq war seeing red.

What Will Rachel Maddow's Iraq Documentary Reveal?

Rachel Maddow says her documentary will help ensure the mistakes that led the country to war in Iraq cannot be repeated.

A call to arms

Marine veteran Jeff Key survived deployment in Iraq. Now he's a man with a new mission: ending America's addiction to war.

Bush says marriage is between a man and woman

At a contentious news conference Tuesday that was mostly about the war in Iraq, President Bush took another opportunity to restate his belief that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Out former marine goes to Congress to fight 'don't ask, don't tell'

Eric Alva, the first American wounded in the Iraq War, has since come out and is working now to lift the ban on openly gay service members in the U.S. military.

United against hate

When Fred Phelps showed up in Fort Campbell, Ky., to blame the gays for Iraq War casualties, the region's gay community found instant solidarity among Army wives and soldiers

Majority of Military Officers Support DADT

While recruitment efforts have been ramped up in light of the Iraq war, most high-ranking military officers are still not in favor of allowing gays to serve openly in the military.

Democratic congressional candidate waffles on military's gay ban

Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and Democratic candidate for Congress, is at odds with two national gay rights groups over whether she supports repealing the military's ban on openly gay service members.

GOP hopefuls fault Bush on Iraq, embrace 'don't ask, don't tell'

President Bush drew sporadic, startling criticism Tuesday night in Manchester, N.H., from Republican White House hopefuls unhappy with his handling of the Iraq war, his diplomatic style, and his approach to immigration.

John McCain a target for all sides

Everyone, it seems, is taking jabs at John McCain these days, from a Republican rival for the presidential nomination challenging his stand on same-sex marriage to several potential Democratic candidates questioning his position on the Iraq war.

Senate Dems to Try to Pass Hate Crime Measure

Senate Democrats are trying to force President Bush to sign hate crimes legislation he has threatened to veto by attaching it to a massive bill funding the Defense Department and the Iraq war. Writing violent attacks on gays into federal hate crime laws is related to the war because both are strikes against terrorism, according to a Republican senator and other supporters of the measure.

General Pace sidelined as Joint Chiefs chairman

The Bush administration sidelined Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Friday, announcing plans to replace him as the nation's top military officer rather than reappoint him and risk a Senate confirmation struggle focusing on the Iraq war.

Harry Reid: Pace failed in war assessment

U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid caused a stir Thursday when he said Gen. Peter Pace failed in his job of providing Congress a candid assessment on the Iraq war and that he was concerned Gen. David Petraeus might be guilty of the same.

Republican control of U.S. Congress on the line on Election Day

Republican control of Congress is on the line Tuesday in an election colored by voters' dismay over the Iraq war and misbehavior in Washington. At stake in the midterm election were all 435 House of Representatives seats, 33 in the Senate, 36 governor's offices, and ballot measures on same-sex marriage.

Ending Tough Week, Obama Tries to Refocus Campaign

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama battled to refocus his campaign on the five-year-old Iraq war and the slumping U.S. economy, ending a week that saw him clobbered over incendiary remarks by his longtime Chicago pastor. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, his rival for the Democratic nomination, blasted away on the war and economy as well, while pressing demands to reinstate delegates in Michigan and Florida. Clinton won both contests, but the national Democratic Party said they would not be counted because the state votes were held too early and violated party rules.