In April 1998 Foreman joined the "New York Post" and soon became their film critic. He served as Chairman of the New York Critics Circle, stepping down in 2004. On the outbreak of the Iraq war Foreman was sent by the "New York Post" to report from Iraq. Embedded with the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Kuwait at the beginning of March, he arrived in Baghdad a day after the city's fall, and reported from there until the beginning of June. He had a global scoop with his report of the discovery of $320 million in cash in a West Baghdad garden shed, and a second one with his report that some of this money was subsequently stolen by G.I.'s. While embedded with the army, Foreman wrote an article for the "Weekly Standard" in which he wrote that most Western press coverage of the conditions in Baghdad portrayed conditions as much worse than they really were. On the strength of his Iraq coverage, the "Post" subsequently sent him to cover the California recall election of October 2003.