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[All News All The Time] From Iraq, Lessons for the Next War | All News All The Time: I came to love Iraq’s scrub desert, its date palm groves and marshlands, but most of all its courageous people who despite great personal losses did not lose faith in their country’s possibilities: the imams who prayed despite threats, my Shiite friend Salama Khafaji, who lost her eldest son in a Sunni ambush in the Triangle of Death, yet continues to work for integration. Terrible things happened in Iraq over the last six years, and I go to Afghanistan feeling that we owe it to everyone who has died in Iraq ”” Iraqi and American ”” not to forget, not to gloss over, not to think in terms of success and failure, or victory and defeat, but to see as best we can, through a glass darkly.

[Cato @ Liberty] Cause for Alarm in Iraq, or Just a Ripple? | Cato @ Liberty: in a little more than two years, the United States drawdown of forces will be complete.  In that time, the Iraqi security forces can go further in the direction of ethno-sectarianism, or they can find a new nationalism.  True, the status quo offers a temporary balance of power between the incumbent parties, likely providing relative peace for the American exit. But deep down, ethno-sectarianism creates fault lines that terrorist groups and other states in the Mideast will exploit to keep Iraq weak and vulnerable.

[Breaking News] US military: 2 US soldiers in Iraq killed by noncombat related ...: Probe: Private's death reveals cruelty by soldiersCOLUMBUS, Ohio ”” The investigation into the death of a U.S. soldier in Iraq revealed cruelty and maltreatment by other soldiers who have been charged with treating soldiers in their platoon inappropriately, the U.S.

[Investor's Iraq Forum - Iraq Dinar Forum, Iraq Investments, Iraq Stock Exchange, Iraq Bank, Iraq News, Iraqi Dinar] Kirkuk oil fields moves to center stage, the prospect of a new ...: The prospect of a new sectarian conflict, on top of the brutal bombing campaign being conducted these days by al-Qaida as U.S. forces withdraw and simmering Shiite-Sunni violence, will also impede Baghdad's efforts to attract international oil companies to Iraq to restore the country's rundown oil industry.

[Jihad Watch] Iraq arrests over 60 security force members -- including 11 senior ...: The inability of the various forces to compromise, the view of the universe as one of Victor and Vanquished, the amazing readiness to believe all sorts of conspiracy theories, the inability of more than a handful to grasp the nature of citizenship, its duties and rights, in a modern nation-state, the view of government as a prize to be won and the sole source of loot to be distributed to a successful warlord's followers, the atmosphere of menace and threat, the readinesss, even eagernees, to resort to violence and aggression at a moment's notice -- all of these are features of peoples raised in societies or states suffused with Islam.

[Informed Comment] Informed Comment: Baghdad Devastated by Massive Blasts, 136 Killed ...: In a new disclosure, the senior U.S. military officer and another U.S. official, who also spoke on condition he not be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter, said that an Iraqi working for U.S. intelligence alerted U.S. troops stationed near the al Qaqaa weapons facility that the installation was being looted shortly after the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003.

[Washington Examiner Site Feed] Kurdish president demands oil-rich Kirkuk, as Iraq's parliament ...: It has been during periods of political deadlock like these that Iraq becomes particularly vulnerable to renewed violence. In 2006, months of political wrangling over the country's first permanent post-invasion government allowed al-Qaida linked insurgent groups to provoke Shiite militias into a near-civil war that tore the country apart.

[The League of Ordinary Gentlemen] The Course(s) of Iraq | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen: And how tempting it will be, after the Americans leave, for the largely Shiite Baghdad government to resort to force against largely Sunni insurgents. From there ”¦ a short road back to 2006.

[Gorilla's Guides] Gorilla's Guides » Blog Archive » 'Good Morning Baghdad ...: Over the past few years, Iraq has risen to become the second-most corrupt country in the world, surpassed only by Somalia on the index of the international non-governmental corruption watchdog Transparency International. Former Minister of Trade Abd al-Falah Sudani, along with his brothers, embezzled so much money from the food rationing program —

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Massive Bomb Attack on Iraq ...: A pair of suicide car bombings Sunday devastated the heart of Iraq’s capital, killing at least 155 people in the country’s deadliest attack in more than two years. The bombs targeted two government buildings and called into question Iraq’s ability to protect its people as U.S. forces withdraw.

[Breaking News] Iraq police: 2 car bombs explode near Baghdad government offices ...: Police: Bombs kill 7 pilgrims in BaghdadBAGHDAD ”” A series of roadside bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims returning from the southern holy city of Karbala struck the Iraqi capital Friday, killing at least seven people, Iraqi police and medical officials said. The attacks are the latest in a series that have targeted Shiites, raising concerns that insurgents are stepping up attacks against Shiite pilgrims, hoping to re-ignite sectarian violence that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007.

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Iraq, Afghanistan Violence: Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, I reported on Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki’s criticism of U.S. commander Gen. Ray Odierno and street protests against the U.S.-Iraq status-of-forces agreement by supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

[Breaking News] Iraqi Kurds, angry over oil-rich Kirkuk's future, boycott ...: Kurd leader demands control of oil-rich KirkukBAGHDAD ”” The president of Iraq's Kurdish region demanded Wednesday that oil-rich Kirkuk be incorporated into his autonomous area, as parliament prepared for a showdown on the contentious issue of which of the northern city's residents can vote in upcoming elections. Massoud Barzani's comments ratcheted up the pressure on the eve of a vote on the electoral law that will lay the groundwork for January's key parliamentary ballot.

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Iraqi PM ditches old Shi'ite allies for Jan polls (AlertNet ...: BAGHDAD - The re-election strategy for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took shape Thursday as he unveiled a broad alliance for January's parliamentary voting that”¦ US speeds up troop withdrawal from Iraq: general (Space War) Washington (AFP) Sept 30, 2009 - The US military has accelerated the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and freed up equipment for the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, the US commander in Iraq told Congress on Wednesday .

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