 In 2004 he started "Iraq'd," a blog on "The New Republic" website, which chronicled the dilemma of pro-war liberals.He also wrote, with John B. Judis, what many considered the definitive article that chronicled the chain of events that led to the Plame affair.In 2006 Ackerman was fired from "TNR" for "insubordination" (in "TNR" editor Franklin Foer's account) or "irreconcilable ideological differences" (in Ackerman's).