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| Shifting Needed Resources from Afghanistan to Iraq |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 3:43 am |
| Tags: In The News, George Bush, Iraq, Terrorism |
| from Afghanistan to Iraq: In October 2002, Robert Grenier, a former director of the C.I.A.'s counterintelligence center, visited the new Kuwait City headquarters of Lt. Gen David McKiernan, who was already planning the Iraq invasion. Meeting in a sheet metal warehouse, Mr. Grenier asked General McKiernan what his intelligence needs would |
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| Cheney vs. Cheney: Invasion of Iraq Would Lead to Quagmire' |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 6:08 pm |
| Tags: News, Iraq |
| been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to put in its place? That’s a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central |
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| EFPs are Made in Iraq by Iraqis |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 1:45 pm |
| Tags: News, War Party, Iran, Propaganda, Iraq |
| one's simple: Among Shia in Iraq, the U.S. backs the same folks as the Iranians do: The Da'wa Party and the Supreme Islamic Council. The Shi'ites who are fighting our guys are nationalists, and so are somewhat down with the Sunni Arab nationalists and opposed to Iran. Enter Michael R. Gordon of the New York Times, who keeps pushing (without |
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| Iraq troop 'surge' likely to fail: British MPs |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 9:05 pm |
| Tags: World Politics, Unrest Conflict War, Terrorism, Iraq, United Kingdom |
| The US 'surge' of troops in Iraq is likely to fail, a British parliamentary committee said as it delivered a critical report on London's foreign policy in the Middle East. |
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| Gonzales is shaping Iraq's Justice System. Yeah, Alberto Gonzales. |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 7:48 pm |
| Tags: Iraq, Alberto Gonzales |
| if Gonzales is involved, the Iraqis don't stand a chance. But, let's be real. Gonzales is in Iraq for p.r. reasons and, of course, he's getting the perfunctory briefing from the Iraqi spin machine: Gonzales got an update from Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and also planned to meet with Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to |
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| Downer says Labor candidate's Iraq comments offensive |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 5:00 am |
| Tags: Defence National Security, Defence Forces, Army, Government Politics, Federal Government, Foreign Affairs, Labor Party, Unrest Conflict War, Australia, Iraq |
| Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has criticised a former high-ranking Army officer who has described Australia's involvement in Iraq as "window dressing". |
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| Julian Borger: Holidays in Iraq, no armoured car required |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 6:49 pm |
| Tags: Iraq, International News, Travel, Travel News |
| Julian Borger: Going anywhere interesting this summer? We thought we might take the kids to Iraq. |
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| US military: “Major” attacks are down in Iraq |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 10:12 am |
| Tags: War On Terror, Military, Iraq, Middle East |
| 23,000 tips per month from Iraqis, four times more than last year, said Army Col. Ralph Baker, a former brigade commander in Iraq now assigned to the Pentagon. Meanwhile, Herschel Smith blogs about the rise Jaish al Mahdi (JAM) in Iraq, and warns people not to get overly optimistic about what’s happening in Iraq until Sadr and Iran are |
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| Iraq: the political horizon |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 2:28 pm |
| Tags: Iraq |
| moral authority in Iraq, but the same cannot be said for our government at home. In fact, it's in moral deficit because many Iraqis are increasingly frightened we will abandon them to genocide. Read it all at the above link. Yon is self-funded on his reporting excursions to Iraq and Afghanistan, so consider his Tip Jar. The |
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| President Bush Discusses Iran And Iraq |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 9:08 pm |
| Tags: General, War On Terror, Videos, World, Iran, Iraq |
| Video from Dan Riehl, who provides some good commentary. Tags: President Bush, Iraq, Iran, video |
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| US Think Tank: "The Best Idea We Were Able To Generate A National Unity Dictatorship Is The Only Plausible Route To Stability In...Iraq" |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 11:25 pm |
| Tags: Iraq, You Surprised, Plain Ol Stupid, Bullshit, Wtf |
| and democracy to millions of Iraqis?After hundreds [ed: "thousands", not hundreds] of British and American troops died trying to restore democracy to Iraq, a new lobby in the United States has concluded the country must go back to dictatorship.Imposing a strongman to end the chaos resulting from Iraq's civil war is an option rarely raised in |
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| Polling Report On Iraq |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 11:23 pm |
| Tags: Iraq |
| Some interesting things to consider here. |
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| Italy Probe Unearths Huge Iraq Arms Deal |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 2:36 pm |
| Tags: Headlines, Iraq, Wtf |
| black-market transaction, as Iraqi and Italian partners haggled over shipping more than 100,000 Russian-made automatic weapons into the bloodbath of Iraq. As the secretive, $40 million deal neared completion, Italian authorities moved in, making arrests and breaking it up. But key questions remain unanswered. For one thing, The Associated |
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| Iraq Summer Turns Up the Heat |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 1:11 pm |
| Tags: Iraq, Foreign Policy |
| or so to update us on the Iraq Summer campaign - i.e., the campaign to put make congressional war supporters feel the heat. Tom is the Washington Director for MoveOn.org Political Action, and is campaign manager for Iraq Summer and Americans Against Escalation in Iraq. He'll be writing about the legislative and political fight over the war in |
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| Iraq: the political horizon |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 2:28 pm |
| Tags: Iraq |
| Much is made of the Iraqi government's lack of political progress - as defined in fluid fashion by Washington politicians. The more dangerous political instability for Iraq may be that... |
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