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[ Seeker Blog] Take a look at the IRI polling on Iraqi public opinion in this Economist bulletin (the lower right quadrant of this figure). I was struck by the...

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http://pbd.blogspot.com [PBD - Progressive Blog Digest] HAS ANYTHING REALLY CHANGED? The Iraqi election...: Michael Rubin, formerly of the Coalition Provisional Authority and a Chalabi proponent, painted Jaafari as "a politician who advocates theocracy, accepts money from Iran, and seeks to marginalize the political and social role of Iraq's women." Jaafari, as noted above, rejects that characterization, but there's little question that under Jaafari Iraq would move far away from secularism. He's framed governance as essentially a way to spare Sistani the trouble of running the country: "Politicians might ask Sistani's advice on general issues, but from now on there will be a parliament that will write the constitution and form the government.

[Blue Goldfish] How We Vote - By Counties: Corner "The name alone makes it worth a visit." The War in Iraq Was Wrong Blog "Blue Goldfish... Institute Commentary Current History Dissent Magazine Economist FIRST THINGS the Journal...

Blogs.salon.com[Blogs.salon.com] Allen L Roland's Radio Weblog: Behind closed doors, Bush was giving top U.S. corporate heads and financiers a different message: according to Bob Woodward's recent book Bush At War, in October 2001, on the eve of war with Afghanistan and as planning was beginning for invading Iraq, he told a private New York meeting of business leaders, "I truly believe that out of this will come more order in the world-real progress to peace in the Middle East, stability with oil-producing regions." In his paean to his former boss, Bush speech writer David Frum laid it out more directly: America's new global "war on terror," he wrote, was designed to "bring new freedom and new stability to the most vicious and violent quadrant of the earth-and new prosperity to us all, by securing the world's largest pool of oil."

Gseis.ucla.eduhttp://www.gseis.ucla.edu [Gseis.ucla.edu] Blog Left: Critical Interventions Warblog (war blog, Iraq ...: Harriet lived in Edenton, which lies in the same northeastern quadrant of tidewater North Carolina .

[Bluegoldfish.blogs.com] Blue Goldfish: Iraq: "Both times, Israeli intelligence officials told us, yes, WMD were definitely in Iraq, and that they had been sent to Syria." The Bush administration was trying to downplay these reports, she believes, "because if Iraqi weapons are in Syria, we're going to have to do something about it, and they don't want another war."

http://vernondent.blogspot.com [Vernondent.blogspot.com] Done With Mirrors: Instapundit is the blog written by an celestial army of readers, thinkers, and commentators who possess the body of one Glenn Reynolds, a mild-mannered law professor from Tennessee.

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