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[A Soldier's Perspective] Confessions of an Anti-Iraq War Democrat: Memories of a Purple Finger: I remember the exact moment I had my first serious doubts about whether I was 100 percent right that the US preemptive invasion of Iraq and the take-out of Saddam Hussein was a serious mistake. I had been strongly opposed to the US .
[At-Largely] Iraq Event Horizon: Bush and Cheney said it would be appeasement to talk directly to the Iran about things unless they gave up their inalienable right to develop nuclear power, but they didn't mention how they'd characterize the bribes Petraeus was handing out to Sunni militants in Iraq. Democratic candidate for president Barack Obama said he'd talk to Iran without ridiculous preconditions, and his opponent, Senator John McCain, said that just showed how ridiculous Obama's notions of foreign policy were, that offering to negotiate without making ridiculous preconditions would only lead to negotiations.
[The Times - World News] Obama visit fails to woo Iraqis: Obama, who voted against the March 2003 war to topple Saddam, visited Iraq in 2006 and is returning at a time when violence has fallen to a four-year low - partly on the back of a US troop "surge" which he had strongly opposed.
[Counterterrorism Blog] Is Iraq the “Central Front” in the War On Terror?: Indeed, it can hardly be denied that, over the past two years, Al-Qaida has suffered a series of crippling setbacks in Iraq—marked by consistent and startling accusations from fellow Islamic militants of corruption, fanaticism, and even murder. Major Sunni insurgent organizations in Iraq, even former Al-Qaida allies, have adamantly distanced themselves from Zarqawi and his ilk, even going so far as to suggest that “the Al-Qaida network has actually made people here think that the occupation forces are merciful and humane by comparison.”
[Goldilocks Zone] Five Year of the Iraq War with “Reuters Bearing Witness”: March 2003: despite Inspector Blix’s report saying Iraq has made some progress, the US, Britain, Spain and Portugal present a revised draft resolution giving Saddam Hussein an ultimatum to disarm by March 17 or face the possibility of .
[Crooks and Liars] Lindsay Graham: I “absolutely” still think invading Iraq was a ...: I wanted to scream at the TV and ask him if that with over 4000 troops killed—thousands with serious injuries and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people dead and still suffering, how could he possibly act so smug and say it was all worth it to get rid of Saddam? The cost of this insane war against a country that did not attack us is unfathomable to me and nothing these warmongering apologists can say will ever change the truth of the situation.
[Michael Moore - This Just In] Obama Arrives in Baghdad to Discuss Iraq Strategy: The U.S. delegation's first stop in Iraq was the southern city of Basra, where the Iraqi army -- with support from British and U.S. troops -- has recently wrested control from extremist militias. (The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad initially said the group had flown directly to the Iraqi capital from Kuwait, but later corrected that information.) The senators did not venture into the city proper, where about 30,000 Iraqi soldiers patrol the streets to keep insurgents at bay.
[OSI Gazette] 7 Terror Groups That Exist Because of Bush: Keep in mind that this article in no way implies that Saddam ever did a good thing in his life; this simply implies that there is a delicate balance in the world, and instinct-based approaches to world affairs, such as the one Bush employed, can have very bad results.
[Philadelphia Independent Media Center - Passionate and Accurate Tellings of Truth] Barack in Iraq: As Gareth Porter has reported, "The two strongly pro-Iranian Shiite factions supporting the regime in Baghdad, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) and [Prime Minister Nouri] al-Maliki's own Dawa Party, were under strong pressure from both Iran and their own Shiite population and from Shiite clerics, including Ayatollah Ali Sistani, to demand U.S. withdrawal." ["Pullout Demand Signals Final Bush Defeat in Iraq,"
[Ravenbfugiselle's Weblog] Iraq Recognition: SCIRI Splits On Iran, Diyala prevalent the False ...: The system is blood heat accumulation twentieth-century Diyala, and al Qaeda conducted a a lot triumphant press with regard to a U.S. Quite a few rig in exercise southeast with regard to Baghdad. The prosecute is with regard to forasmuch as the three deprived of soldiers who are believed for bear young been captured subsequently a culture complex sack on top of a U.S. Nest fire patrolman for the city as regards Mahmudiyah Saturday morning.
[Abu Aardvark] GP: The Third Iraq Handoff: Madeleine Albright told us that it was hard to focus on issues other than Iraq when she was ambassador to the United Nations because of the regular reviews of Iraq’s compliance with Security Council resolutions and the work required to hold the international community together. Clinton’s first use of force was in Iraq in the summer of 1993, when the U.S. bombed the Iraq intelligence headquarters in Baghdad in retaliation for the attempted assassination of George H.W.
[Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad delong] Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's Endorsement of Obama's Withdrawal Plan: Today, we in Iraq want to establish a timeframe for the withdrawal of international troops -- and it should be short. At the same time, we would like to see the establishment of a long-term strategic treaty with the United States, which would govern the basic aspects of our economic and cultural relations.
[SWJ Blog] 21 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: Nonetheless, as the newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported Sunday in its online edition, some German politicians are concerned about the location of Obama’s speech. The deputy leader of the Free Democrats worries “whether Barack Obama was advised correctly in his choice of the Siegessäule as the site to hold a speech on his vision for a more cooperative world.” One Christian Democrat allows that speaking in front of a monument to a victory over neighbors who are today friends and allies “is a problematic symbol.” I share every civilized person’s disdain for Prussian militarism and loathing for National Socialism.
[Whistleblower Support Blog] 7-20-08 More on KBR’s Electrical Disasters in Iraq: Since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, tens of thousands of American troops have been housed in Iraqi buildings that date from the
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[The Long Goodbye] Another crony in McCain camp, British back Obama, Victor David ...: We were paralyzed for a year over Ambassador Joe Wilson’s carnival-like mission, in part due to the prompt of his wife at the CIA Valerie Plame, to find out whether Niger sold, or tried to sell, yellowcake to Saddam. Meanwhile unmentioned is the fact that all the time 1.2 million pounds of yellowcake continued to sit in a warehouse in pre- and postwar Iraq.
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