Iraq Reviews > Iraq Today: War News for Thursday, January 29, 2009

[Iraq Today] He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would not be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds: “(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq,” or “(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.”

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[The United Nations] US military deaths in Iraq war at 4236 (AP) | The United Nations: AP - As of Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009, at least 4236 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. This entry was posted on Thursday, January 29th, ...

[Suite101 Articles] Speeches on the Iraq War: The Rhetoric of American Politicans ...: For more than a year before the Iraq war began, the prospect was debated in America. Many elected leaders offered their own opinion on the floor of the House, or the Senate.

[Did You Know] Enough evidence to prosecute Rumsfeld for war crimes/UK ”˜must ...: The tribunal said: “We have decided that the public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of the formal minutes of two cabinet meetings at which ministers decided to commit forces to military action in Iraq did not… outweigh the public interest in disclosure.

[iNPLACENEWS] iNPLACENEWS - Blog Archive » Obama To Discuss Ending Iraq War with ...: Obama was to hear the opinions of the four U.S. military service chiefs on Wednesday in a meeting the White House called one more step toward fulfilling his promise of withdrawing all combat troops from Iraq. The Joint Chiefs of Staff will be ready with a rough sketch of what would be required to fulfill the president’s timetable for a 16-month withdrawal.

[Scoop NZ - Health Most Read] Scoop: UN: Stranded Sudanese Leave Iraq For Romania: The group of 42Sudanese refugees are staying in the new Emergency TransitCentre set up by the Romanian Government, the UN HighCommissioner for Refugees and the International Organizationfor Migration to provide a temporary haven for refugeespending final resettlement in a third country, a UNHCRspokesperson said today.

[Army] Iraq War Update: Fight Shifts From AQI to Iran’s Agents | Army: Mouth of the Potomac - NY Daily News Blogs - The Daily News reported last weekend that some policymakers now see the Iraq war as simply one battlefront in a.

[Scoop NZ - Education] Scoop: Iraq: UN Envoy Hails “Good Start” To Early Voting: AsIraq’s police, military, detainees and hospital-bound castearly ballots today, the top United Nations envoy hailed theorderly beginning of the strife-beset country’sgovernorate, or provincial, council elections to be heldacross the country on 31 January.

[Kansas City Star: Breaking News] Obama: Tough decisions on Iraq, Afghanistan loom - Kansas City Star: "This was a conversation at a much higher elevation about global threats the United States faces, about in particular the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the president was, of course, keenly interested in hearing from the chiefs about the health of their forces," Morrell said. "And each of the chiefs offered him a candid assessment of how they're doing."

[San Francisco Sentinel] San Francisco Sentinel » Blog Archives » OBAMA TO MAKE WAR CHOICES ...: Obama’s visit to the Pentagon was part of a whirlwind start to his presidency that has seen him plunge into Middle East diplomacy, tackle the economic crisis that has cost millions of Americans their jobs, and reverse some of the more controversial policies of the Bush administration.

[SWJ Blog] 29 January SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.

[Enterprise Resilience Management Blog] Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: Voting in Iraq: In the years that followed, as the Iraqi army and police forces were disbanded and a burgeoning insurgency took control of vast stretches of the country, the presence of the Kurdish militia drew little criticism. After the 2005 elections, non-Kurds in several villages in northern Iraq said the militia's soldiers had prevented them from voting.

[Big Hollywood] Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Iraq War Showdown: Bill Kristol ...: Kristol is a MORON- whether or not damon can defeat him in debate is irrelevant-this pussified neocon enjoys sending other’s children into harm’s way in order to achieve the PNAC agenda of privatizing Iraq’s oil reserves for Western multinational oil companies (sorry billyboy- the Chinese will be the chief beneficiary of our police action)….if any right-wing fools doubt that the Iraqui invasion was an outright oil grab, read the Project for a New American Century document (PNAC) sent to clinton by the American Enterprise Institute (a conservative “think” tank- I know an oxymoron)…sent in 1998 it predates 9/11 and its singatories are found throughout the Bush Administration (evil dickie cheney, cRummy, Wolfowitz, libby,…..) you American fools have been tooled by the military-industrial complex….wake up, your empire is gutted and dying!

[Chrisy58's Weblog] KBR Must Be Accountable for Iraq Deaths: US Senators « Chrisy58’s ...: Dorgan, who heads the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, said he has chaired 18 oversight hearings on contracting abuses and corruption in Iraq and Afghanistan, exposing “billions of dollars in wasteful spending,” shoddy work by private contractors, and unsafe water supplies.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Even if they disagreed on the stimulus bill, President Obama and a dozen bipartisan members of Congress can agree on the post-vote agenda: the group will raise their glasses at the first cocktail party in the new president’s White House on Wednesday night.

[News, Opionion and Features from Asharq Alawsat English Edition] Obama: Tough Decisions on Iraq, Afghanistan Loom Asharq Alawsat ...: "This was a conversation at a much higher elevation about global threats the United States faces, about in particular the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the president was, of course, keenly interested in hearing from the chiefs about the health of their forces," Morrell said. "And each of the chiefs offered him a candid assessment of how they're doing."

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