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[mySA.com Local news] The war in Iraq broke the model for how the Defense Department uses the Guard and Reserve. Envisioned in the Cold War as a follow-on force to replace units fighting against Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops, they’re essential to sustaining conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan because the Army is too small for the job, retired Lt.

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[IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons] IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from ...: David Petraeus repeatedly insists, our (belated) successes in Iraq are still fragile. There has already been an uptick in terror bombings, which will undoubtedly continue as what's left of al-Qaida, the Sadrist militias and the Iranian-controlled "special groups" try to disrupt January's provincial elections.

[Conventional Folly] Conventional Folly » Charles Krauthammer is out of the office, but ...: The more long-term danger is that Iraq’s reborn central government becomes too strong and, by military or parliamentary coup, the current democratic arrangements are dismantled by a renewed dictatorship that abrogates the alliance with the United States.

[SWJ Blog] 5 December SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): This is a unique contribution to the burgeoning literature on the Iraq war, analyzing the day-to-day performance of a US brigade in Baghdad during 2004-2005. Mansoor uses a broad spectrum of sources to address the military, political and cultural aspects of an operation undertaken with almost no relevant preparation, which tested officers and men to their limits and generated mistakes and misjudgments on a daily basis.

[Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Dogs of War: A contractor's tale: In the post-Cold War era, instead of a global war against another superpower and its allies, strategic planning called for the U.S. military to prepare for two nearly simultaneous regional conflicts, such as Korea and Iraq. Such planning envisioned the same kind of high-intensity conventional conflict that typified the Cold War, albeit short, violent and limited, and fought with smaller forces.

[Scoop NZ - Sci-tech] Scoop: Marc Ash: The Threat of Realism: The first problem here is that,yes, the occupation of Iraq is about dominating on behalf oflarge American-based corporations the resources of Iraq,and, yes, the American taxpayer is footing the entire bill.That is not going to last. It is highly unlikely that the USeconomy can sustain the occupation of Iraq for another 12months.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | The Threat of Realism: The various grass-roots efforts that sprouted over the past years may have sought different specific avenues (to end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to guarantee equal rights for homosexuals, to create equitable healthcare and education systems, etc.) for social justice, but all of those avenues converged upon the same disappointing point: The shut and locked gate, with no one behind it anyway, that is the Bush Administration. With Barack Obama about to take office, along with many new legislators and other new officials nationwide, now is not the time to cool off.

[RealClearPolitics - Articles] RealClearPolitics - Articles - Historic Progress in Iraq: Iran's client, Moqtada al-Sadr, still hiding in Iran, was visibly marginalized in parliament -- after being militarily humiliated in Basra and Baghdad by the new Iraqi security forces. Moreover, the major religious Shiite parties were the ones who negotiated, promoted and assured passage of the strategic alliance with the U.S., against the most determined Iranian opposition.

[Therearenosunglasses's Weblog] ISRAELI OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE-THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE MIDDLE EAST ...: Being a survivor of the murderous attack on our ship USS Liberty June 8, 1967 I can vouch for that as well, since I personally witnessed “unimaginable” inhuman slaughter, in particular that of Americans on the high seas by the Government of Israel, resulting in 34 murdered and 174 wounded. According to the testimony of this former Israeli soldier, a common practice among them is competing among themselves to see who could kill more Palestinians, bragging afterward about how many they killed, deliberately targeting and killing children walking home from school or playing outside, and slamming the heads of handcuffed Palestinians onto concrete walls.

[The Edge of the American West] Rejection « The Edge of the American West: There are also plenty of smaller errors that underscore the book’s profoundly sloppy construction.  The authors point out several times, for example, that the Iraq Liberation Act “specifically called for regime change by force” (10), when in fact it said nothing of the kind and was, moreover, such a low priority for the Clinton administration that they released only token amounts of money to opposition groups.  The book repeats the discredited myth that the WTC bombs in 1993 actually contained cyanide.  It likewise gives voice to the erroneous charge that Kojo Annan, son of the former UN Secretary General, had participated in the “misappropriation” of $21 billion from the UN Oil for Food Program — which is precisely the sort of claim that recently earned Annan a sizable legal settlement from a British libel suit.  If the footnotes are to be believed, however, the authors appear not to have read anything on the Oil for Food “scandal” outside a 2004 article on the Fox News website.  The absence of factual basis for the assertion, therefore, is not surprising.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Israel prepares for Iranian strike ...: Israel would have a difficult but not impossible task in hitting enough sites in Iran to make a difference.  The most direct route would take then through Iraqi air space, which would also require the IFF codes to avoid getting attacked by US forces.  Otherwise, they’d probably have to fly around the Arabian Peninsula, refueling along the way and making their presence known well ahead of the attack. They’d have to hope that they got the actual nuclear sites, as the Iranians decentralized the program as a result of Israel’s attack on Osirak.

[Global News Blog] The ”˜Other’, Older Palestinian Coup D’etat : Global News Blog: Forth, emboldened by the Annapolis process, the PLO now refuses reciprocal concessions and persists with its “political coup d’etat,” offering an impossible - to - accept framework for reconciliation and adamantly insistent that Hamas unilaterally ends its coup d’etat, dismantles its rule in Gaza and its military wings outlawed by the PA, commits to PLO’s political programme and respects its signed accords with Israel, voluntarily agrees to give up its electoral mandate by agreeing to go to early elections, i.e. to transform itself into a carbon copy of Fatah as a precondition to join the PLO and the PA as well as to run in the upcoming elections, which all boil down to a Hamas complete surrender to its rival and indirectly to the three Israeli - U.S. preconditions.

[BLACKFIVE] BLACKFIVE: The delusions of the media: From the first Gulf War to Desert Fox (where we likely destroyed much of the remaining stockpiles) to the No Fly Zone patrols, we have been locked horns with Saddam’s regime for over a decade. In addition, it’s not like decapitating the regime would end things.

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