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[NewsDaily: Top Headlines] NewsDaily: Tired of war, thousands of Iraqis want to go to U.S.: The journalist hopes to join over 4.7 million Iraqis who have left their homes since 2003, in what the United Nations refugee agency, the UNHCR, calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the Middle East since 1948. Some 700,000 people, half the Arab population of Palestine in May 1948, fled or were forced to flee from their homes after Israel was created.

[Open Left - Front Page] Open Left:: Credit where credit is due: Iraqis ended the Iraq war: Iraq deserves credit

[Enduring America] Iraq: Beyond the US Occupation/Withdrawal ”” The Failure of Power ...: “Wherever the Americans go, the situation is going to stay the same as it was,” said Abdel-Karim Abdel-Jabbar, a 51-year-old resident of the Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiya, where insurgents overran another checkpoint last week, burning the bodies of their victims and planting the same black banner. “If anything, it’s going to deteriorate.

[War and Game] War and Game: Iraq Army: Invasion of Kuwait and Gulf War: This gave a total of about 56 army divisions, and total land force divisions reached 68 when the twelve Iraqi Republican Guard divisions were included. Although it was said at the time in Western media that Iraqi troops numbered approximately 545,000 (even 600,000) today most experts think that both the qualitative and quantitative descriptions of the Iraqi army at the time were exaggerated, as they included both temporary and auxiliary support elements.

[At War] As Iraq Drawdown Nears, a Soldier Shares Hopes and Fears - At War ...: Bush’s second term: “As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.” In a sense, helping the Iraqis stand on their own became the mission of United States nd coalition forces from 2005 onward, and the most prominent manifestation of this effort came with the focus on building Iraq’s own security forces. Normally, training foreign militaries and militias falls under the purview of United States Army Special Forces, but this elite community of soldiers was simply not large enough to supply adequate military trainers for so large an operation.

[blogfrommiddleeast.com] Obama hails Iraq war in ìwithdrawalî speech: "As a candidate for president, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end," Obama told the veterans audience. The "responsible end" formulation was employed by Obama as a clear signal to the US ruling elite that his antiwar rhetoric in the presidential campaign would be quickly discarded once the Democrat entered the White House and assumed the role of commander in chief for US imperialism.

[FrontPage Magazine » FrontPage] Victory in Iraq | FrontPage Magazine: I hate to rain on your naive parade, but thanks to a Muslim infiltrator, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, who managed to penetrate our beyond incompetent State Department and get appointed as the Ambassador to first Afghanistan and then subsequently to Iraq, Sharia law has been made the supreme authority in the constitution of Iraq. Hence, for all intents and purposes, the so-called democracy in Iraq in which you celebrate is in reality a Sharia state, and the last time I checked the only freedom that Sharia allows is the freedom for Muslims to become more devout slaves of Allah, and if you don’t believe me, then please take a look had the horrid oppression of Christian dhimmis living in Iraq.

[TPMDC] Obama: The End Of The Iraq War Is Finally In Sight | TPMDC: America lies to it's people with the complicity of Congresses' political cowardice and the media's complicity, invades a sovereign nation for no justifiable reasons, kills more than 500,000 innocent Iraqis, spends our children's future at 7.5 billion per month, hires mercenaries to indiscriminately kill innocent people and their families, builds a billion dollar plus embassy, allows rampant war profiteering with the end result of suffering and misery that we will uncomfortably continue to see on the off ramps of every American highway; homeless, crippled, out of work, destroyed American youth standing there at the light with cardboard signs begging for loose change.

[Feral Jundi] Call To Action: Vehicle Decals And Licenses In Iraq | Feral Jundi: In Iraq, our teams have volunteered to operate in a warzone performing dangerous but vital tasks in support of a number of U.S. government programs. We provide the safest possible environment for our personnel by working closely with the Iraqi government to obtain all licensing and certifications that are required to operate in Iraq.

[At War] Electricity: Iraq's Other Power Vacuum - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: At War is a reported blog from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other conflicts in the post-9/11 era. The NYT’s award-winning team provides insight ”” and answers questions ”” about combatants on the faultlines, and civilians caught in the middle.

[SWJ Blog] Significant Challenges in Iraq Remain Despite “End” Of U.S. Combat ...: (Ret.), Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow: "President Obama was right to highlight the unique milestone approaching in our long struggle in Iraq. As we change our mission there at the end of this month from combat operations to one of supporting and training Iraqi forces, we should remind ourselves that our success in Iraq holds both lessons and cautions for the very tough fight we face today in Afghanistan.

[WORLDmag.com | Community] WORLDmag.com | Community | Blog Archive | Obama confirms troop ...: Also, remember the words of Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, “I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and ”” you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows ”” [know] this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday.” (April 18, 2007).

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Iraq Civilian Deaths 2-Year ...: BAGHDAD ”” While concern is rising in the U.S. about the war in Afghanistan, the Americans are anxious to show evidence of progress in their other conflict ”” Iraq. New Iraqi government figures tell a different story, however, showing civilian .

[Political Punch] Obama On The Iraq Drawdown: 'As Promised and On Schedule ...: “As agreed to with the Iraqi government, we will maintain a transitional force until we remove all our troops from Iraq by the end of next year,” Obama said of the 50,000 transitional force that will remain, “During this period, our forces will have a focused mission””supporting and training Iraqi forces, partnering with Iraqis in counterterrorism missions, and protecting our civilian and military efforts.”

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