Iraq Reviews > February 28, 2009
Obama gives Iraq war a closing date - Kansas City Star
[Kansas City Star: News] Obama declared he will end combat operations within 18 months and open a new era of diplomacy in the Middle East — but his plans to leave as many as 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq through 2011 made many Democrats in Congress angry, while Republicans cheered.
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The White House - Blog Post - Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq ...
[White House.gov Blog Feed] First Lady Michelle Obama
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February 28, 2009
Obama gives Iraq war a closing date - Kansas City Star
[Kansas City Star: News] Obama declared he will end combat operations within 18 months and open a new era of diplomacy in the Middle East — but his plans to leave as many as 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq through 2011 made many Democrats in Congress angry, while Republicans cheered.
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The White House - Blog Post - Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq ...
[White House.gov Blog Feed] First Lady Michelle Obama
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February 26, 2009
Hit & Run > Careful Budgetary Analysis Reveals the Iraq War and ...
[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] program is fair enough (although keep in mind that Obama is ramping up the war in Afghanistan while he's ramping down the war in Iraq). But whatever you think about the wisdom of Bush's tax cuts, it takes a very statist frame of mind to view letting people keep more of their own money as a government program, let alone a wasteful and ineffective one.
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Post War Iraq To Team With France On Nuclear Power - Nuclear Power ...
[Nuclear Power Industry News] A senior Iraqi official says Baghdad is taking initial steps to construct the country's first nuclear power plant in cooperation with France. Electricity Minister Karim Wahid said Sunday that Baghdad has asked Paris to help construct a reactor in Iraq, AFP reported.
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February 24, 2009
As war ebbs, Europe returns to Iraq | csmonitor.com
[Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] While some commentators have seen the European visits to Iraq as a sign of rivalry and heightened tension in transatlantic relations, others say Germany and France are both keen to play a greater role in Iraq reconstruction in order to show their support for the new US administration of President Obama and support their own agendas within the alliance.
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War Widows Strain Iraq's Social Services | wowOwow
[wowOwow | The Women on the Web] Did you even know anything about Iraq before we invaded it or did your info only come after the Bush admin scared us all into thinking we had to go to war?? There are a lot of countries around the world that are run by horrible people and we don’t invade them all do we?? Boy, you folks sure are brain washed through and through by the good old Bush doctrine…if he had said you all had to jump off a cliff you would all have gladly done so. The war with Germany was a legitimate one and the one with Iraq was not there is a world of difference, those women in Iraq would not have half as many husbands lost if we had not invaded that country.
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February 21, 2009
Iraq Today: War News for Saturday, February 21, 2009
[Iraq Today] He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would not be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds: “(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq,” or “(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.”
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The Hill’s Pundits Blog » Iraq War Veterans Should Demand a Voice ...
[The Hill's Pundits Blog] But who formulated this original vision of the war in Iraq? Was it formulated in the offices of The Weekly Standard and even longer before that by naïve but very influential undergraduates with political agenda in the student cafeterias of Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkins?
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February 19, 2009
Informed Comment: Iraq: Kurdish-Arab War in the Offing?
[Informed Comment] History, Foreign Policy, Middle East, South Asia, Religious Studies, War on Terror.
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The Bush Iraq War: Iraq's Kurdish-Arab tensions threaten to ...
[Baltimore Sun talk forum] Along a 300-mile strip of disputed territory that stretches across northern Iraq , however, the elections have rekindled the longstanding hostility between Sunni Muslim Arabs and Sunni Kurds, and there are growing fears that war could erupt.
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February 17, 2009
Iraq Today: War News for Tuesday, February 17, 2009
[Iraq Today] He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would not be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds: “(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq,” or “(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.”
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Political Cortex: Bush's Iraq War Spending Spree and Greenspan's ...
[Political Cortex] The Iraq War rages on with 4,321 U.S. service personnel dead, over 55,000 wounded, and the Pentagon admitting 96,000 Iraqis killed. However, the Just Foreign Policy website on February 4 released a report claiming, "Iraqi deaths due to U.S. invasion 1,307,319."
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February 14, 2009
Photographing Iraq war fallen shows the full costs of war « In ...
[In These New Times] Barring photographs of fallen soldiers returning to the U.S. has always been the way proponents of the war in Iraq shielded its full cost from public view. That ought to change with a rescinding of the Pentagon policy.
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Iraq Today: War News for Saturday, February 14, 2009
[Iraq Today] He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would not be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds: “(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq,” or “(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.”
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February 12, 2009
Iraq Today: War News for Thursday, February 12, 2009
[Iraq Today] He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would not be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds: “(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq,” or “(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.”
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Obama: No Truth Commission on Iraq War Asharq Alawsat Newspaper ...
[News from Asharq Alawsat English Edition] Schmierer said one of the most prominent indications that resulted from the provincial council elections in Iraq is that the Iraqis voted for technocrat candidates not on a sectarian or confessional basis, but on the basis of their competence. He added that Iraq seemed eager not to be classified as a sectarian country, and this will strengthen the democratic institutions.
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February 10, 2009
Canadian Dimension Blog / Sign letter to Harper: Let U.S. Iraq War ...
[Canadian Dimension Blog] Join a rally to support the Hinzman family appeal and to demand the Harper government respect Canadian democracy. It is time for Stephen Harper to stand by his own words: “the Prime Minister has the moral responsibility to respect the will of the House.”
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GroundReport | United States | Afghan War ”˜much tougher than Iraq ...
[GroundReport.com] Hamid Karzai Afghanistan’s president said, The American view of Afghanistan’s problems differed from that of the country’s president. He called Taliban forces “who are not part of Al Qaeda, who are not part of terrorist networks, who want to return to their country.”
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February 07, 2009
Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to ...
[Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq] However, the Iraqi Islamic Party, which took power in the province by default because it was the only Sunni Arab group that participated in the 2005 election, also thinks that it took big risks for a democratic outcome. The party, which has ruled the province since then with a governor appointed by the provincial council, has little popular standing with many Sunnis, who consider it unrepresentative, corrupt and linked to violent groups.
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February 05, 2009
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4237 - World - Wire - Kentucky.com
[Kentucky.com: Homepage] As of Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009, at least 4,237 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Iraq Today: War News for Thursday, February 05, 2009
[Iraq Today] He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would not be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds: “(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq,” or “(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.”
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