Iraq Reviews > March 09, 2010
Election Reaction From Around Iraq - At War Blog - NYTimes.com
[At War] As Iraq returns to normal life after nearly a week of election curfews and holidays, New York Times correspondents and Iraqi stringers have spoken to Iraqis around the country about their choices, hopes and expectations. We will present them here as they come in, with updates on the results as boxes begin arriving from around the country to the Green Zone headquarters of Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission.
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March 09, 2010
Will the War in Iraq Ever Go Away? -- Politics Daily
[Politics Daily] The soldiers find heads outside the building they are guarding all of the time because the opposition kills the Iraqi government employees so they can get their jobs....They were better off with a dictator (Hussein) because people were afraid of him and there was very little crime.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
March 06, 2010
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Harry “The Iraq war is lost” Reid ...
[Hot Air » Top Picks] He said what he said about jobs in front of cameras and it is on video all over the net.Now he says it is taken out of context(ever heard that before?)and used for political gain by Republicans.This same guy spent the Bush years hoping everyday would see many American and Iraqi deaths that he could use for political gain.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
Was the Iraq war illegal?
[Liberal Democrat Voice] “It is not a court of law, the Chilcot Inquiry, it was explicitly set up not to determine whether it was illegal or not so that is going to have to happen elsewhere by the lawyers, by the court, but my view is that I have heard enough now to suggest that this wasn’t taken in line…and worse, more than that, there is clear evidence which has come out in the Chilcot Inquiry that the Attorney General who is supposed to be the guardian of the legality of doing things was flip flopping from one minute to the next, and there is overwhelming evidence and very serious allegations that he was pressured into keeping silent about his own reservations about the illegality of the war by Jack Straw, by Tony Blair and by others.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
March 04, 2010
Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...
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Posted at 03:34 PM
Mitch Daniels and the Iraq War - Ross Douthat Blog - NYTimes.com
[Ross Douthat] In the spring and summer of 2003, with Baghdad looted and Iraq’s infrastructure disintegrating and Iraqis losing patience and the insurgency just beginning, around the Republican Palace, where the Americans of the Coalition Provisional Authority were trying to bring some order to Iraq, the name Mitch Daniels was often mentioned, without much love. C.P.A.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
March 02, 2010
Vote seen as pivotal test for both Iraq and Maliki ”” War in Context
[War in Context] A few months ago, building on genuine if not universal popularity, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki appeared poised to win a second term as Iraq’s prime minister. Now, as Iraqis prepare to vote in parliamentary elections on March 7, his path to another four years in office has become increasingly uncertain, his campaign erratic and, to some, deeply troubling.
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Posted at 03:05 PM
HolyCoast.com: Hollywood's Iraq War Fantasy
[HolyCoast.com] Many in the military say "Hurt Locker" is plagued by unforgivable inaccuracies that make the most critically acclaimed Iraq war film to date more a Hollywood fantasy than the searingly realistic rendition that civilians take it for.
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Posted at 03:03 PM
February 27, 2010
March 13 Iraq War Protest marks 7th Anniversary of the US ...
[Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy] We are coming up on another anniversary of the illegal US invasion of Iraq, and we are seeing now more clearly than ever that the Democratic Party has been little more than a redecorating party for US imperialism and corporate domination. The war(s) raging on in the Middle East are unjust, unwarranted, and unacceptable, and they are sucking money and power from the common people at a disgusting rate.
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Posted at 03:39 PM
Army's Iraq Handbook: Avoid War Crimes And Beware Arab Paranoia ...
[TPMMuckraker] I think you have to bear in mind that it is written for a specific purpose, and that purpose is to try give the audience, U.S. Servicemembers (not all of whom are inclined to take an academic or cosmopolitan view of things) some insights into a culture that they are going to have to encounter under the most stressful of circumstances, and for them to make the least number of mistakes possible.
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Posted at 03:37 PM
February 25, 2010
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Tom Friedman's Iraq War
[FAIR Blog] Ironically, though, it was the neo-conservative Bush team that argued that culture didn’t matter in Iraq, and that the prospect of democracy and self-rule would automatically bring Iraqis together to bury the past. While many liberals and realists contended that Iraq was an irredeemable tribal hornet's nest and we should not be sticking our hand in there;
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Posted at 03:34 PM
Jon Slattery: 'My shame at being duped over Iraq war'
[Jon Slattery] Speaking in a debate at the Frontline Club, Rose who reported for the Observer and Vanity Fair in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq said he had interviewed people who had purported to be defectors from the Saddam regime who had told "a pack of lies".
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Posted at 03:33 PM
February 23, 2010
10 New Names For The Iraq War More Bombastic Than "Operation New ...
[Best Week Ever] While “Operation New Dawn” and “Operation Iraqi Freedom” both have a certain cumbersome, bombastic ring to them, I think we can do better ”” here's a list of 10 Even More Grandiose Names For The Iraq War, and feel free leave your own in .
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Posted at 03:07 PM
Eunomia » Revisiting The Iraq War Debate
[Eunomia] Pro-war conservatives preferred to fixate on the latter because these arguments made it easier to demonize the antiwar position in the eyes of other conservatives, most of whom support the empire and would be happy to serve Israeli interests (which many of them readily conflate with our own), but they never made much of a case that these arguments were wrong, much less obviously “kooky.” Yes, of course, pro-war conservatives believe them to be kooky, but these people also usually believe that the Iraq war was a vital and necessary campaign of national defense and some of them still hang on to the fiction that invading Iraq without cause had something to do with anti-terrorism, which are ideas so far removed from reality that one might almost call them kooky.
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Posted at 03:05 PM
February 20, 2010
Iraq War to Be Renamed -- Politics Daily
[Politics Daily] The name change will send "a strong signal that Operation IRAQI FREEDOM has ended and our forces are operating under a new mission," Gates wrote in the memo, which was also sent to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen.
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Posted at 03:35 PM
Exclusive: War in Iraq to Be Given New Name - Political Punch
[Political Punch] When I heard a famous American historian talk about how ridiculously short the memory of the American voter is, I said to myself, it cannot possibly be true that any one who has lived in the US over the last 10-20 years can forget how we ended up in Iraq. We ended up in Iraq because the last president wanted to go to Iraq to finish off Daddy's war because of the criticism he saw his father get for not finishing it the first time.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
February 18, 2010
Israelis Behind the Iraq War | MPACUK - Empowerment through ...
[MPACUK - Empowerment through political participation] “As I recall that discussion, it was less to do with specifics about what we were going to do on Iraq or, indeed, the Middle East, because the Israel issue was a big, big issue at the time. I think, in fact, I remember, actually, there may have been conversations that we had even with Israelis, the two of us, whilst we were there.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
War News Updates: Iraq War News Updates -- February 17, 2010
[War News Updates] U.S. Army soldiers with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment, examine their CH-47 Chinook helicopter before an aircraft turnover mission at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, on Dec. 1, 2009.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
February 16, 2010
Lecture to note future impact of Iraq War : The Kentucky Kernel
[The Kentucky Kernel] Ricks has written four books, and his newest book, “The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq,” focuses on the American presence in the Middle East. Ricks said he will be speaking to students about how the war will affect the world in years to come.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
The Common Ills: The Iraq War is not a joke, someone explain it to ...
[The Common Ills] Strange, most of us don't laugh at the thought of the Iraqi children born mutilated due to Depleted Uranium. Most of us don't laugh at all the Iraqi orphans and widows created by the illegal war.
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Posted at 03:03 PM
February 13, 2010
Britain's Inquiry into the Iraq War and the Israel Lobby Taboo
[Wake Up America!] Specifically, Professor Mearsheimer and I made it clear in our article and especially in our book that the idea of invading Iraq originated in the United States with the neoconservatives, and not with the Israeli government. But as the neoconservative pundit Max Boot once put it, steadfast support for Israel is ”˜a key tenet of neoconservatism.’ Prominent neo-conservatives occupied important positions in the Bush administration, and in the aftermath of 9/11, they played a major role in persuading Bush and Cheney to back a war against Iraq, which they had been advocating since the late 1990s.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
Obama & Pals Take Credit For Iraq War Success
[Flopping Aces] “I mean, the truth of the matter is that, that the ”” America’s ”” this administration’s policy and the surge are a failure, and that the surge, which was supposed to stop sectarian violence and ”” long enough to give political reconciliation, there’s been no political reconciliation”¦ The reality is that, although there has been some mild progress on the security front, there is, in fact, no, no real security in Baghdad and/or in Anbar province, where I was, dealing with the most serious problem, sectarian violence. Sectarian violence is as strong and as solid and as serious a problem as it was before the surge started.”
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Posted at 03:32 PM
