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• Soldiers Vs. Party Line in NYT

  Published: August 21, 2007, 10:33 am

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, The Hive Mind

  and Janus-faced role of the Iraqi police and Iraqi Army, which have been trained and armed at United States taxpayers' expense. A few nights ago, for example, we witnessed the death of one American soldier and the critical wounding of two others when a lethal armor-piercing explosive was detonated between an Iraqi Army checkpoint and a police

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• Angelina Jolie Invades Iraq

  Published: August 28, 2007, 10:55 pm

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, Ideas For Idealists

  Jolie visited Syria and Iraq this week on behalf of the U.N. High Council on Refugees, the A.P. reports: Jolie traveled to the Al-Waleed refugee camp on the Iraqi side of the border and spoke to some of the 1,200 Iraqis living there before visiting a contingent of U.S. troops in the area, the agency said. UNHCR spokeswoman Astrid Van

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• Petraeus’ Weapons Picks

  Published: September 10, 2007, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, Politics Amp Other Disorders

  have proven invaluable in Iraq. The capabilities that you have funded most recently especially the vehicles that will provide greater protection against improvised explosive devices are also of enormous importance. Aka MRAPs, Predators, Ravens, Global Hawks and helicopters. Surprisingly, Warlock jammers (”counter-IED

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• What Surge?

  Published: September 11, 2007, 2:24 pm

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, Politics Amp Other Disorders

  supposed boost to forces in Iraq: The combined number of coalition troops in Iraq American and allied is 173,500. This number is noticeably below the previous peak of 183,000, which occurred in November and December of 2005 (the time of the last Iraqi elections), and a fraction of a percent below the highest level that was previously

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• Petraeus Wrong about Iraq Dead

  Published: September 11, 2007, 2:45 am

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, Politics Amp Other Disorders

  fire. “Coalition and Iraqi operations have helped reduce ethno-sectarian violence,” Iraq occupation boss General David Petraeus told Congress on Monday. Surge operations, he said, have succeeded in: bringing down the number of ethno-sectarian deaths substantially in Baghdad and across Iraq since the height of the sectarian violence

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• Fleischer Lies

  Published: September 12, 2007, 3:47 pm

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, Lies My Leaders Told Me

  connecting the war in Iraq to 9/11 in an attempt to influence the American public into “staying the course.” The Washington Post covered this organization today in this article. The television commercial is grim and gripping: A soldier who lost both legs in an explosion near Fallujah explains why he thinks U.S. forces need to

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• Soldier-Critics Dead

  Published: September 13, 2007, 2:49 am

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, Reporters Terrorists

  a group of seven soldiers in Iraq banded together to pen a New York Times op-ed critical of the war effort. Now two of the seven are dead, according to Editor and Publisher: Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance T. Gray died Monday in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad, two of seven U.S. troops killed in the incident which was reported just as Gen.

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• Iraqi Gov’t: “Surge Good!”

  Published: September 13, 2007, 10:33 am

  Tags: Iraq Sucks

  have spent enough time in Iraq and who have got a good idea about the reality on the ground and the complication that has accompanied the political situation. Security in Iraq has been improved, [but] we still have red areas and the government of Iraq needs to fix this problem. Regarding the political situation, we understand there are

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• Iraq Withdrawal: Huge Joke?

  Published: September 14, 2007, 3:27 am

  Tags: Iraq Sucks

  reductions in U.S. forces in Iraq on Thursday night and said, ‘The more successful we are, the more American troops can return home.’” This according to the Associated Press: Yet, Bush firmly rejected calls to end the war, insisting that Iraq will still need military, economic and political support from Washington after his

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• Officers Get Sim Iraq Rides

  Published: September 18, 2007, 12:59 am

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, History Makes Me Sleepy, Practice Makes Perfect

  animation and the war in Iraq? “Virtual Staff Rides,” as provided by the Combat Studies Institute at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. During a conference last week at Leavenworth, Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Kennedy gave about a dozen assembled journalists and military historians a peek at the VSR's, which CSI has been conducting since

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• World Politics Review: Iraq Boasts Counter-Insurgency Capabilities the U.S. Lacks. Part Two

  Published: September 20, 2007, 12:20 am

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, Up In The Air

  Aircraft Iraq’s narrow focus on fighting insurgents has also allowed it to field an air force specifically tailored for the purpose. The small but rapidly expanding force is dominated by transport and surveillance aircraft, rather than by the expensive fighter jets that are most numerous in the U.S. Air Force. “There

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• World Politics Review: Iraq Boasts Counter-Insurgency Capabilities the U.S. Lacks. Part One

  Published: September 19, 2007, 4:08 pm

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, The Industry, Gearheads

  Badgers began flowing into Iraq in August 2006. “The Iraqis are starting to get trained on them,” Brig. Gen. Terry Wolff, a senior trainer in Iraq, said in March. “Kind of a big, tall-looking vehicle,” with a “v-shaped hull” is how he described the type. “Seats eight — got eight crewmen in the

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• Post-Surge Strategy: Mega-Bases?

  Published: September 23, 2007, 9:49 pm

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, Friends Allies

  near Balad in north-central Iraq plus the air facility outside Mosul further north. “We could turn the war over to the government of Iraq,” Madonna writes, ”retaining sufficient combat power as a support force if the enemy massed for battle.” That support, the author says, would entail air patrols, heliborne raids and

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• Release the Gunships! Part One

  Published: September 30, 2007, 11:15 pm

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, Up In The Air

  fly every night in Iraq but rarely identify a single insurgent due to the inefficient manner in which they are requested by the Army and employed by the Air Force. … [A] simple yet fundamental change in AC 130 employment can kill or capture more insurgents, save friendly lives, and improve prospects for coalition success.

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• Book Review: The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr

  Published: October 7, 2007, 6:36 pm

  Tags: Iraq Sucks, The Hive Mind, Wib Reads

  guided the path to war in Iraq and has proven to be unworkable. The reality that will shape the future of the Middle East is not the debates over democracy or globalization that the Iraq war supposed to have jump-started but the conflicts between Shias and Sunnis that it precipitated. In time we will come to see this as a central legacy of

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