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[RealClearWorld] RealClearWorld - One Way Or Another, Leaving Iraq: The militia parties that ruled Iraq from 2003 to 2007 remain, Pollack says, the major political parties, although mostly without militias. They "still bribe and extort," "assassinate and kidnap," "steal and vandalize" and try to prevent the emergence of new political parties that are "more secular, more democratic, more representative, less corrupt and less violent." If they succeed and "America is forced out," Pollack says, "the glimmers of democracy will fade and Iraq will be lost again." But if democracy is still just a glimmer that will be extinguished by the withdrawal of a protective U.S. presence, its extinction can perhaps be delayed for two more years but cannot be prevented.

[United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government] Will calls for withdrawal from Iraq | United Liberty | Free Market ...: Following up his call for a withdrawal from Afghanistan, George Will says it's time to get out of Iraq: After almost 6 1/2 years, and 4327 American dead and 31483 wounded, with a war spiraling downward in Afghanistan, .

[BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash] Bill Berkowitz: Pro Iraq War PAC's 'Tea Party Express' sputters ...: Around the time of President Obama's inauguration, OCDB declared, in an ad at HumanEvents.com, that it was aiming "serve as one of the leading conservative organizations that will help prepare for a conservative resurgence in 2009 and 2010." OCDB warned conservatives that "Obama is perhaps the most liberal person ever to be elected to serve as Commander in Chief of these United States of America, and it is now the responsibility for conservatives to serve as the 'loyal opposition' to Obama's liberal policies -- just as MoveOn.org, Code Pink, and all the liberal organizations stood up to the Bush Administration and Republicans in Congress."

[open Democracy News Analysis -] Iraq: new alliances, old repression | open Democracy News Analysis: ruled by Dawa operatives, it remains one of Iraq's mostcorrupt and inept institutions. Yet when the Majlis an-Nuwwāb al-Irāqiyy (council of representatives, or parliament) sought to oust the ministerfrom his position on account of the wholesale corruption in the institution, al-Malikicame to his defence and sought to prevent him from being prosecuted forwholesale corruption. The finance ministry, which is run by the IslamicSupreme Council of Iraq, has not produced closing accounts for the annual statebudget for four years. 

[POLITICO.com: Politics] George Will: 'Time to leave Iraq' - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com: The military takes our young people, trains them for a few months and throw them into these arenas, but year after year the powers that be continue to use "MORE TRAINING" as an EXCUSE to remain in Iraq. This is their country, we have shed enough blood for Chaney to get his oil buddies entrenched in Iraq and to set up Ahmed Chalabi.

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Iraq PM asks for U.N. inquiry into Baghdad bombings ...: Iraq PM asks for UN inquiry into Baghdad bombings (AlertNet) Source: Reuters By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has formally asked the U.N. Security Council to launch an inquiry .

[Investor's Iraq Forum - Iraq Dinar Forum, Iraq Investments, Iraq Stock Exchange, Iraq Bank, Iraq News, Iraqi Dinar] United States intends to supply Iraq with U.S. fighter jets ...: Lemkin, deputy assistant Air Force chief of Foreign Affairs that F-16s, whether modern or has been updated it may be a key element in strengthening the capacity of U.S. and Iraqi forces to work together in the future.

[Argue With Everyone Political Forums] EASY READ: BILLIONS MISSING IN IRAQ & NO ACCOUNTABILITY: Subsequent airlifts of cash included billions from Iraqi oil revenues formerly controlled by the United Nations. After the creation of the Development Fund for Iraq—a kind of holding pit of money to be spent for “purposes benefiting the people of Iraq”—the UN turned over control of Iraq’s billions of dollars from oil revenue to the United States.

[Middle East Strategy at Harvard] » Quiet dogs in Iraq Middle East Strategy at Harvard: To re-enter Iraqi cities is not a good idea, but the United States does need to bring home to the Iraqis themselves that their country’s future is an American strategic concern, and that the United States cannot leave until it is reassured that Iraq can stand on its own against Iranian influence. Much more can and must be done to reconcile the Sunni minority with the Shiite majority in Iraq, just as more can be done to reconcile the Sunni Arab world with the Shiite-dominated order in Iraq.

[Oh, For Goodness Sake] Oh, For Goodness Sake » Blog Archive » Orly Taitz's Ugly Military ...: This Court should intervene now to grant both temporary and permanent injunctive relief and declaratory judgment because the United States Code and Army afford her no relief, aside from reliance upon her oath, which she now asserts—to defend her against the monstrosity of being compelled to wage war under an illegal dictator compared by many and actually comparable to Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Idi Amin, and Francois and Jean-Claude Duvalier, especially when this leader has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Fidel Castro Ruz and other communist leaders. The recitation of these names of historical infamy, except for that of Cuba”˜s 50 year dictator Fidel Castro Ruz, for whom the current de facto President has professed admiration, does not necessarily reflect directly on the philosophy of the current de facto Presidential Administration or on Plaintiff”˜s opinion of the individual current occupying the position of Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces.

[The Stump] Time to leave Iraq - OregonLive.com: The militia parties that ruled Iraq from 2003 to 2007 remain, Pollack says, the major political parties, although mostly without militias. They "still bribe and extort," "assassinate and kidnap," "steal and vandalize" and try to prevent the emergence of new political parties that are "more secular, more democratic, more representative, less corrupt and less violent." If they succeed and "America is forced out," Pollack says, "the glimmers of democracy will fade and Iraq will be lost again." But if democracy is still just a glimmer that will be extinguished by the withdrawal of a protective U.S. presence, its extinction can perhaps be delayed for two more years but cannot be prevented.

[Therearenosunglasses's Weblog] Iraq « Therearenosunglasses's Weblog: Surely, such a potentially hazardous targeting of an American refinery required the consent of the site’s owner, or at least the knowledge on the part of the government that the owner would look the other way, barring some catastrophic accident. Two plus two (foreknowledge and compliance) smelled like “four,” four being the symbolic “rat” in the equation.

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Iraq War Destabilizes ...: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki called on neighboring countries to play a positive role in helping stabilize Iraq. His comments took on added significance amid a diplomatic dispute between Iraq and Syria over demands that Damascus extradite suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists blamed for the Baghdad ministry bombings.

[Commentary] Commentary » Blog Archive » Responding to George Will, Part Two: To recapitulate: Will urges the United States to adopt a “comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes, and small, potent special forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters.”

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - The Afghan Phoenix « - Blogs ...: These are all too real, but they are only part of the story, and for Afghans who have lived through an invasion by a totalitarian superpower that killed one in ten of their family members, then a civil war that killed many more, and then the Taliban who brought security at the price of living in a completely failed theocratic state, the most important fact is that history is now behind them and that the future promises something better.

Mudville Gazette: In accordance with the Security Agreement between the U.S. and Iraq, and upon U.S. withdrawal from a base or facility, the bases or facilities will be returned to the control of the appropriate Iraqi entity or demilitarized and closed. These facilities are able to be closed or transferred back to Iraqi control because the Iraqi Security Forces have assumed full responsibility for security in their respective areas.

[Breaking News] Former Army soldier gets 5 life sentences in Ky. for rape, murders ...: Correction: Iraq Rape Slaying storyLOUISVILLE, Ky. ”” In initial versions of an April 24 story about federal prosecutors seeking to compel witnesses to testify in the trial of an ex-soldier, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Sgt.

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