Iraq Reviews: July 2009 Archives

Iraq Reviews > July 30, 2009

Britain's Iraq war inquiry will call Tony Blair to testify, but ...

[Breaking News] Britain to examine Iraq war errors in inquiryLONDON ”” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown authorized a long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war on Monday that aimed to examine mistakes made during and after the 2003 U.S-led invasion. Lawmakers and anti-war protesters have repeatedly demanded that an independent panel scrutinize what they say are a range of errors made by Britain, the United States and other allies in prewar intelligence and postwar planning.

Miyazaki's Quiet Protest of the Iraq War | Cartoon Brew: Leading ...

[Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation] I have always found it surprising that Miyazaki’s relationship with John Lassiter is described/translated as ‘friendship’ when neither speaks the other’s language and, whilst JL clearly admires Miyazaki’s work (although I have never heard Mr Miyazaki praising PIXAR’s output directly) and Studio Ghibli have clearly benfitted from PIXAR promoting their films in the USA, their relationship seems to exist on more of a business footing than a personal one.

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July 30, 2009

Britain's Iraq war inquiry will call Tony Blair to testify, but ...

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July 28, 2009

Miyazaki's Quiet Protest of the Iraq War | Cartoon Brew: Leading ...

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The Common Ills: Iraq refugees and the war still drags on

[The Common Ills] ) also reports on Iraqi refugees in the US, specifically in Worcester, MA where approximately 151 members of Iraq's Mandaean community have settled and notes a total of 1,200 have been settled in the US in the last two years.

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July 25, 2009

Aggregator Site » Blog Archive » US military deaths in Iraq war at ...

[Aggregator Site] US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,329As of Friday, July 24, 2009, at least 4,329 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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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4329 Friday, according to ...

[Breaking News] US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,278As of Thursday, April 30, 2009, at least 4,278 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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July 23, 2009

Obama's Healthcare Reform is Bush's War in Iraq « MICHAEL MASLANSKY

[MICHAEL MASLANSKY] I have to give a friend of mine (Sam Greene) credit for this idea, but Obama’s rhetoric on health care is sounding more and more like Bush’s on the War in Iraq. This isn’t meant to be a partisan attack, just what seems to me to be a growing and glaring set of analogies between the two situations.

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War News Updates: The Next Iraq Civil War?

[War News Updates] a day, the new oil refinery inaugurated on July 18 by the Kurdish regional government of northern Iraq is modest even by the standards of Iraq's dilapidated oil industry. But its significance shouldn't be underestimated: in Kurdish minds, the region's ability to refine the oil it pumps is a vital step toward deepening its autonomy from the Arab-majority remainder of Iraq.

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July 21, 2009

Iraq: Ministry of Defeat: the British War in Iraq 2003-2009 by ...

[Iraq] Richard North might mock himself as an “armchair general”, but this forceful and searching analysis of the British military’s failings in Iraq provides greater plausibility than anything else put forward to date. Ministry of Defeat tells us that the British Army that was sent into Iraq partly to secure its strategic alliance with the US has suffered a humiliating setback that has lowered its standing in the eyes of the Americans.

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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4328 Monday, according to ...

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July 18, 2009

Iraq War Casualty Predictions

[Outside The Beltway | OTB] With the exception of a very few people who deeply understood the social/political/historical situation in Iraq and the surrounding countries in the region(who were to a person dismissed as liberal/peace nick/weenies who just didn't get the grand neo-con vision because of their inability to understand the simplicity of the situation), no one bothered to call in a few anthropologists to find out what the predicable outcome of an American invasion would be.

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A Lesson From Vietnam for Obama's War in Afghanistan by Joe ...

[Antiwar.com Original] This small history lesson can be read as a cautionary tale to President Barack Obama’s team as they oversee an excruciating slow-motion end of one war, Iraq, and a pell-mell rush to wade ever deeper into another one in the mountains and deserts of remote and tribal Afghanistan.

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July 16, 2009

Iraq Today: War News for Thursday, July 16, 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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Freemania: David Beckham and the Iraq war: down the rabbit-hole

[Freemania] If David Beckham had of spoken out about Iraq it wouldn't have happened, I honestly believe that hand on heart, or Britain certainly wouldn't have got involved. Beckham's cultural gravitas was as such in that period that if he'd have gone 'I don't want this war in Iraq, it's an awful thing, we should not do it', it wouldn't have happened, the public would've gone mad against it.

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July 14, 2009

Iraq war vet has protest flag confiscated by police at ...

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Minstrel Boy: U.S. Air War All-But-Over in Iraq | Danger Room ...

[Minstrel Boy] There were 260 Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attacks in Iraq last month, according to statistics from the military’s Joint IED Defeat Organization. That’s down from 602 attacks in June 2008 and 2588 in June 2007.

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July 11, 2009

The Dignified Rant: But it Was Such a Good War!

[The Dignified Rant] Thousands of mourners bowed their heads in tribute Friday to the passing coffins of soldiers killed in a new offensive in Afghanistan, where the climbing toll has created doubts in Britain about the human cost of the war.

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Gorilla Radio blog: Iraq's New Dirty War

[Gorilla Radio blog] On Friday, June 12, Harith al-Obaidi, leader of the Iraqi Accordance Front, the largest Sunni bloc in the Iraqi Parliament, was shot dead outside a mosque just minutes after giving a sermon condemning the Maliki government for human rights abuses. Obaidi, who was a leader in the opposition movement against the government and had strong support among both Sunnis and the Shi'ite bloc loyal to the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, was a long-time advocate for human rights and a staunch critic of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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July 09, 2009

Exultet: Obama and the war in Iraq

[Exultet] I argued repeatedly that unless stability was firmly reached in Iraq, reducing the number of troops there prematurely would place the remaining troops in greater danger and might also undermine the gains that have been achieved. I argued that Obama would end up doing almost exactly as McCain promised he would do, and that was to leave troops in Iraq until the job was finished.

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Iraq: The Coming Train Wreck | The LA Progressive

[The LA Progressive] Furthermore, the government had agreed to pay Sunni Awakening Council members””those former Sunni guerrillas that are now helping the U.S. to fight al Qaeda in Iraq””but has dragged its feet on getting them their money. In addition, the government, suspicious of the Awakening Councils, has also slow rolled its promise to get their members jobs in the security forces, bureaucracy, or private business.

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July 07, 2009

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4322 (AP) | PHP :: News

[PHP :: News] US military deaths in Iraq war at 4322 (AP). AP - As of Monday, July 6, 2009, at least 4322 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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National Journal Online -- National Security Experts -- The Iraq ...

[National Security Experts] Prime Minister Maliki's response to Vice President Biden's urgings related to this critical issue suggest the Iraqi government still has a long way to go in that respect.Some might be inclined to dismiss the significance of Maliki's rebuff as a natural reaction to what might well appear to Maliki and other Iraqis as American interference in Iraqi internal political affairs. And, of course, Biden's past advocacy of the notion of partitioning Iraq, highly unpopular among most Iraqis, is another factor that was bound to play into Maliki's reaction.Nonetheless, Maliki and his predominantly Shi'a backers have openly objected to or visibly dragged their feet regarding reconciliation for several years now.

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July 04, 2009

The CIA Memory Hole: Human Suffering in Iraq and Its Causes

[The CIA Memory Hole] Director of the "oil for food" program in Iraq Dennis Halliday, stated during an interview on March 13, 1998 that "it is tragically the case that the lack of drugs, equipment, supplies, is, indeed, having a devastating impact on young children in particular but also adults."9 The Secretary-General's March 1998 report10 noted that despite the fact that a large variety of supplies have been delivered, quantities received to date remain inadequate...often covering only 20 percent of requirements. The report suggested that some of the problems were caused by inadequate internal transport at all levels which led to an average time of 5 to 6 weeks to distribute supplies from warehouses to the rest of the country, and that cold chain transport (of medicines which need to be kept refrigerated) is even worse.

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The Captain's Journal » Afghanistan: The WTF? War

[The Captain's Journal] Next, we learn that National Security Advisor James Jones isn’t qualified for the job. It’s his job - while all of the other principals are outlining a strategy and force projection that they believe will be endorsed by the President - to be whispering in the ear of the President: “Listen to them, but only so far. Iraq has taught us that this is harder than we think it will be on our first or even second or third take. If they’re telling you that the Afghan National Army can substitute for our own troops, they aren’t accounting for the drug addiction, incompetence and treachery of the Afghan Army. This will be long term, protracted, part of the long war. Iraq was long and hard, and Petraeus rightly said that Afghanistan would be the longest engagement in the long war. Fully expect for them to come back asking for more troops, because they will need them. You are a wartime President, sir.”

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Iraq Reviews > July 30, 2009

Britain's Iraq war inquiry will call Tony Blair to testify, but ...

Miyazaki's Quiet Protest of the Iraq War | Cartoon Brew: Leading ...

July 30, 2009

Britain's Iraq war inquiry will call Tony Blair to testify, but ...

July 28, 2009

Miyazaki's Quiet Protest of the Iraq War | Cartoon Brew: Leading ...

The Common Ills: Iraq refugees and the war still drags on

July 25, 2009

Aggregator Site » Blog Archive » US military deaths in Iraq war at ...

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4329 Friday, according to ...

July 23, 2009

Obama's Healthcare Reform is Bush's War in Iraq « MICHAEL MASLANSKY

War News Updates: The Next Iraq Civil War?

July 21, 2009

Iraq: Ministry of Defeat: the British War in Iraq 2003-2009 by ...

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4328 Monday, according to ...

July 18, 2009

Iraq War Casualty Predictions

A Lesson From Vietnam for Obama's War in Afghanistan by Joe ...

July 16, 2009

Iraq Today: War News for Thursday, July 16, 2009

Freemania: David Beckham and the Iraq war: down the rabbit-hole

July 14, 2009

Iraq war vet has protest flag confiscated by police at ...

Minstrel Boy: U.S. Air War All-But-Over in Iraq | Danger Room ...

July 11, 2009

The Dignified Rant: But it Was Such a Good War!

Gorilla Radio blog: Iraq's New Dirty War

July 09, 2009

Exultet: Obama and the war in Iraq

Iraq: The Coming Train Wreck | The LA Progressive

July 07, 2009

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4322 (AP) | PHP :: News

National Journal Online -- National Security Experts -- The Iraq ...

July 04, 2009

The CIA Memory Hole: Human Suffering in Iraq and Its Causes

The Captain's Journal » Afghanistan: The WTF? War

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