Iraq Reviews

Election Reaction From Around Iraq - At War Blog - NYTimes.com

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:05:49 +0000

[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.

Will the War in Iraq Ever Go Away? -- Politics Daily

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:04:54 +0000

[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.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Harry “The Iraq war is lost” Reid ...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:34:39 +0000

[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.

Was the Iraq war illegal?

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:32:56 +0000

[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.

Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:34:08 +0000

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Mitch Daniels and the Iraq War - Ross Douthat Blog - NYTimes.com

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:33:10 +0000

[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.

Vote seen as pivotal test for both Iraq and Maliki ”” War in Context

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:05:06 +0000

[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.

HolyCoast.com: Hollywood's Iraq War Fantasy

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:03:16 +0000

[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.

March 13 Iraq War Protest marks 7th Anniversary of the US ...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:39:06 +0000

[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.

Army's Iraq Handbook: Avoid War Crimes And Beware Arab Paranoia ...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:37:34 +0000

[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.

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Tom Friedman's Iraq War

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:34:51 +0000

[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;

Jon Slattery: 'My shame at being duped over Iraq war'

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:33:52 +0000

[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".

10 New Names For The Iraq War More Bombastic Than "Operation New ...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:07:12 +0000

[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 .

Eunomia » Revisiting The Iraq War Debate

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:05:08 +0000

[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.

Iraq War to Be Renamed -- Politics Daily

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:35:12 +0000

[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.