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[thoughts born of boredom] My opinion of America just fell another notch ... we may have reached submerged levels at this point: It is true, these soldiers are in a situation that life has not prepared them for and studies have shown that in situations of extreme stress we react in ways that many would consider inappropriate (Stanley Milgram's famous studies on the influence of authority is a good place to start looking if you are intersted) but that concludes the calm and rational portion of this entry. Up next, the one and only time I have ever even considered using excessive profanity on this site (which I will refrain from doing because I think it is important that my little sister be able to sit at my computer and read what I have written, gather an understanding of the situation, see past my rage and form her own opinion without feeling as if she is being bullied by my use of profanity). 

[Campaign Iraq: Bring U.S. Troops Home] As Bush Pledges To Stay In Iraq, Military Talks Up Smaller Force: The debate over the proper level of troop strength needed to realize President Bush’s vision of a peaceful democratic Iraq has been a source of tension among administration officials and military planners since before the American invasion of March 2003. The debate shifted as the focus of the war changed from deposing a dictator to pacifying an ethnically divided nation to battling insurgents as well as Islamic extremists drawn from outside Iraq.

 [A Citizen Of Mosul] Take a walk: You might have noticed that many incidents are caused by American soldiers, on this blog, for that, many people have turned against them in Iraq.. Latest: Mom is crossing the street in front of the university, the police start shooting too close, mom gets scared and screams..

 [Washington State Young Democrats] Senate Democrats Have Serious Questions about Iraq: The Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Commander of the Central Command, and the Commander of U.S. and Coalition Forces in Iraq all appeared before the Congress to report on the Administration's progress in Iraq. Prior to their appearances in the House and Senate, in a statement from the White House Rose Garden, you specifically encouraged members of Congress to hear what these officials had to say in order to “get the latest information about our strategy and the progress in increasing the size and capability of the Iraqi security forces.”

 [Dailywarnews.blogspot.com] Today in Iraq: As much as some (like myself) might wish the architects of the Iraq War would be put on trial, American policy will likely change through subtle shifts in establishment attitudes, such as an “emerging” view that sending 150,000 troops to occupy an Arab country that had nothing to do with bin Laden was not the wisest way to protect the United States from a terrorist threat. The etiquette of making a consensus emerge requires that one pretend to forget that many who now hold forth confidently on the unwisdom of Operation Iraqi Freedom two years ag The irony, of course, is that spouted with equal certainty opinions molded by super-hawk Norman Podhoretz.

 [Antiwar.com] Casualties in Iraq - 2005: Between 8 and 10 percent of nearly 12,000 soldiers from the war on terror, mostly from Iraq, treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany had "psychiatric or behavioral health issues," according to the commander of the hospital, Col.

[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.

 [Kevinsites.net] Kevin Sites Blog: Special thanks to John Parres for his early support of kevinsites.net, to David Ulevitch, who has generously provided the server space where it’s lived since it’s inception, to boingboing.net for directing so many readers to us, and most importantly, to the site’s co-creator and producer, Xeni Jardin, to whom kevinsites.net will always be dedicated.

[Dahrjamailiraq.com] Iraq Dispatches: Unlike reporters for major papers, wire services, and the TV news, he lacked the guards, vehicles, elaborate home base, tech support, fixers, and all the other appurtenances of an American journalist in the ever more dangerous Iraqi capital, a city now so filled with violence and explosions that the young blogger Riverbend recently wrote: "It is almost as if Baghdad has turned into a giant graveyard." Unlike most American reporters, however, Jamail (gambling his life) refused to let himself be trapped in his hotel and so his reporting was of the (rare) outside-the-Green-Zone variety. With his Iraqi translator and friend, he regularly interviewed ordinary Iraqis rather than officials of various sorts.

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