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[Greg Sheridan] Esteem for US rises in Asia, thanks to Iraq war: Beijing was shocked, not that there might be demonstrations in Tibet, but rather at just how unpopular they were in international civil society, from Hollywood through to liberal politicians such as Hillary Clinton calling for a boycott of the Olympic opening ceremony, to European leaders that China thought it had in its pockets, to all manner of non-government organisations, through to the Asian middle class, through even to the Mandarin-speaking Rudd, who criticised the Chinese to their faces in Beijing.

[Patriot Missive] N. Korea helping Syria build nuclear reactor?: So what we’re really looking at here is another case of the world becoming and EVEN MORE dangerous place during the Bush Presidency, than it had been prior.  And with so much focus and resources sunk into the war in Iraq, just like the worsening conditions along the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan (which, if you’ll remember is where the terrorists who actually attacked us really hang out), N. Korea and Syria (as mentioned above- only 100 miles outside of the Iraqi border) are increasing their nuclear capabilities.  How’s that for Weapons of Mass Destruction?

 [Media Matters for America - Altercation by Eric Alterman] Is she really going out with him?: MacArthur provoked the Chinese, and they became involved in the Korean War. Adm. Fallon wanted a troop reduction in Iraq, and no provocation with Iran, and looked quite correct when the NIE on Iran proved the civilian leadership's ...

 [The Stormy Present - Politics] A “Torched” Earth Policy Toward China: So if you follow the curve from left to right you’d start with a closed and stable society (North Korea), descend toward a closed and unstable society (Zimbabwe), hit the bottom where you’d have a collapsed state (Somalia), start to move up the right side to an unstable open society (Kenya), continue up to an open and stable society (U.S.). What must be recognized is that on the open society side, you can continue up indefinably as growth on that end is sustainable.

[Caroline Glick] Covering for the enemy: And yet, rather than make clear to Congress and to the US public that the war in Iraq is not an Iraqi war per se but a key battleground in a regional war in which Iran and Syria have combined forces on multiple fronts in a bid to defeat the US and its allies, the Bush administration obfuscates that central truth. For the past five years, key administration officials have repeated the bizarre claim that Iran and Syria share the US's interest in bringing stability to Iraq and that responsibility for ending the war rests solely on the shoulders of Iraq's government rather than on the shoulders of the foreign governments who are waging the war.

[New Media Alliance - Jeff Lukens] Global Pressures Outpace Military Funding: Long term, we may need to station 30 to 50 thousand troops in Iraq as we have done in Germany, Japan and Korea. Yes, we are going to be there a long time, and it is vitally necessary no matter what Democrats are saying.

 [Peace Like A River] Cables, dispatches and memoranda: Reuters - The Iraqi government will not allow Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to wage an “open war” in Iraq and will move to curb his militia, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Monday. CSM - The summit of Arab neighbors .

[gopachy - All Discussions] How neo are the neocons? [Jonah Goldberg]: Moreover, the Bush administration's mistakes in Iraq -- perhaps including the war itself -- have less relationship to ideology than many think. "It is possible," as Kagan notes, "to be prudent or imprudent, capable or clumsy, .

 [Hope2012] War Of Terror ”˜Other’: MAY 1 GENERAL STRIKE, Pakistan, Afghanistan ...: , ILWU International president Robert McEllrath reported that at a recent coast-wide union meeting, “One of the resolutions adopted by caucus delegates called on longshore workers to stop work during the day shift on May 1, 2008 to express their opposition to the war in Iraq.”

 [Tedbianca's Weblog] The eye-opening odour on quadruped: Fuzz give birth to in abeyance all included save and except 100 Iraq World War I protesters good graces San Francisco and Firsthand York East End parce que the brood famed the diatonic semitone immovable feast pertinent to the US .

[Just Foreign Policy News] Just Foreign Policy News, April 21, 2008: Win Without War, a coalition of 42 groups, is circulating a letter declaring that “it is past time to bring the Iraq war to an end” and that “the best course of action in the upcoming defense supplemental appropriations bill is to provide funding only for the safe and timely redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq.”

 [Prismatique's Weblog] Machiavelli and Marx Debate Iraq:  Iraq’s population is comprised of a Shia majority, many of whom are among its poorest citizens, a Sunni minority, from which most of the wealthiest Iraqis were drawn, a large Kurdish minority in the north, small rural communities ruled by warlords, and other, numerically insignificant, ethnic or religious populations, including Chistians. With so many divergent groups having divergent interests, the Baathists’ industrialization program inevitably did serious injury to one or another of them at various times, particularly the Shia and the Kurds.”

[carapace] Wednesday April 16, 2008 - “A person should not be too honest ...: David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and with it the three rings of a five-plus year war and occupation, politicians in their populist best pitches and the media echo of what’s going on with Iraq’s oil revenue.

 [GNN Blogs] As General Patraeus continues to encourage the USA to indefinitely ...: The oil sheikdoms have made this clear by in the interim stating that as of now–post U.S. Iraqi invasion (and during the subsequent drain on U.S. production capacity in many areas)– they will not play politics so much with the oil prices, i.e. no longer being subservient (or overly considerate) to what is good for the U.S. and European political economic needs in the short term.”

 [Vqzraleighumberto's Weblog] With respect to: The Go to rest: Howling wilderness Is Wherewith ...: Nor is other self amazing, at that rate, that the unattended Senators the The present juncture quoted- in working order in transit to humbuggery foliation at Putin’s remarks, boundless notes- were three Iraq wackos, McCain, .

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