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 [With A Grain of Salt!] The End of the Affair: Starting from the Korean War to the Malaya Campaign, to the various interminable civil wars in Asia and Africa, the Indo Pakistani wars (with the war of 1971 exception), the Iran-Iraq War, the small spats in Central and Latin America, the Arab-Israeli wars (with the potential exception of the 1967 war), all have been a right mess. As somebody said, “viewed over the long term, wars are not fought to see who wins, but who remains standing at the end”.

 [Condoleezza Rice For President] Transcript of Princeton Speechi: more difficult by the brutal insurgency that Iraqis face. Iraq's security forces are fighting its...

 [TruthTalkzIRAQ] Pix, DC March, DNA, etc: And he is more than a little responsible for the carnage and damage done, because of his budget-slashing on preventative structural projects, because of his deployment of needed-at-home Guard forces to Iraq, because of his staffing of the government with completely incompetent crony hacks, and because of his and their astonishingly lame performance in responding to a known crisis. Where I come from, a president who remains on vacation during possibly the worst natural disaster to hit this country, praises his FEMA chief for doing a "heckuva job" when the guy doesn't know what any American with a TV set has known for 24 hours about New Orleans, and then later fires him for poor performance, is a president who should be impeached for those reasons alone.

[protein wisdom] Shiite Happens: from Jordan, made by King Abdullah II, of a “Shia crescent” spanning Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon... emancipation.

 [Billroggio.com] The Fourth Rail: Judging Success in Iraq, Take II: The venerable Arthur Chrenkoff puts to rest the New York Times' claim that Dhia’s fight against terrorists "was the first time that private citizens are known to have retaliated successfully against insurgents.” He quickly Googles the news and finds two stories: "Inhabitants of an Iraqi village killed five insurgents who attacked them for taking part in the country’s historic election”; and "in the violent city of Ramadi”¦ the bodies of seven men were found lined up in an unfinished house on the western outskirts of town...

 [Belmontclub.blogspot.com] Belmont Club: June 2004: But whatever their tactical and personal disagreements (and these can be feigned), they share a common strategy for Iraq: kill members of the Coalition and any Iraqi who cooperates, and provoke internal conflicts among the various ethnic and religious communities. That tracks with my own analysis, which is that we are dealing with several different groups, supported by the various terror masters in Tehran, Damascus, and Riadh, in a joint operation within the overall matrix of Hezbollah — which of course means Iran."

[Roadstoiraq.com] Baghdad Dweller: I wonder if smuggling guns from Saudi Arabia inside Iraq have anything to do with “watching Iran/Iraq borders” as they explained before with the arrest of the two SAS soldiers??

[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: Al-Hayat: The Sunni Arab members of the constitution drafting committee said Saturday that they are negotiating with US Ambassador in Baghdad Zalmay Khalilzad to make some final amendments to the new Iraqi constitution. Ali Saadoun, a member of the National Dialogue Council (Sunni), said that Khalilzad "promised to add these amendments to the draft that is printed, and to broach them through an appendix to it." But the head of the constitution drafting committee in parliament, Shiite cleric Humam Hammoudi, objected that "These are not alterations or additions but are rather just affirmations and clarifications in the draft language, especially with regard to the unity of Iraq and its Arab identity." In an interview with Aljazeerah, he was in fact alarmed at Khalilzad's maneuvering, and angrily said that no changes could be made to the constitution at this late date.

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