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Arrested Development referenced so many different aspects of Iraq, it probably deserves even more credit than it got in the Stanley article (though the picture was appreciated):
Dwindling standards for recruitment into the armed services as well as the increasingly desparate attempts to retain soldiers; the inability of the Iraqis to successfully take charge of their own infrastructure; the fake WMDs in Iraq; the lack of proper armor in "the army that we had"; the ethical considerations of preemptive war and the relatively flippant regard these considerations were given, and of course the fact that the Bluth family had corporate relations with that dictator. What the hey, since you left the 's' on war(s) I can throw in the Patriot Act and its alarming ability (in the show, at least) to dig up damaging, yet ultimately false evidence.

And the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner on the house. And the spider hole George Sr. hid in.

Scrubs had a recurring patient this season who was an injured veteran of the Iraq war. One episode was devoted entirely to the hospital staff drawing political lines and arguing the merits of the war and the varous ideologies of the two major parties. It was, perhaps not coincidentally, probably the worst episode the series has ever done.

Sooooooo, since shows like The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity and The Other Guy are not really news, but entertainment.....do they count?

"Boston Legal" has touched on the war in several episodes, mostly via snarky comments from Alan Shore (James Spader) and buffonish ones from Denny Crain (William Shatner). But there was one striking episode about a young woman who was suing the Army because her younger brother - who had benn killed in action - was lied to recruiters and unfairly kept in service by loopholes in the "stop loss" policy. I'm pretty sure few members of the audience were aware these things were happening in the military before the show aired.

"Those aren't WMDs....those are balls." God I miss Arrested Development.

Sopranos has touched on the war on terrorism, too, in the characters of the FBI agent that had been after Tony but had been reassigned to counter-terrorism after 9/11, and the shady guys of Middle-Eastern descent who Christopher helped with credit card numbers and weapons.

"And the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner on the house. And the spider hole George Sr. hid in."

They were solid on Iraq.

Still in the genre, the Simpsons had general cuckoo bananas looking for our next quagmire in Iran or North Korea.