Iraq Reviews > marbury: the iraq war is far from over

[marbury] Fiasco, by Thomas Ricks, is reputed to be one of the best books about America's execution of the Iraq war. Ricks has just started a blog over at Foreign Policy that promises to give an inside track on American national...

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[PoliTrix] PoliTrix » Blog Archive » Tom Ricks: Obama’s War In Iraq May Last ...: and U.S. military advisors will remain in urban outposts along with Iraqi forces. I suspect the SOFA really is most meaningful for the political help it will give Prime Minister Maliki in getting re-elected at the end of 2009 by taking the American presence off the table as a wedge issue for Iraqis.

[SWJ Blog] 6 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.

[Mondoweiss] Mondoweiss: U.S. Army War College says Hamas has been 'villainized': and must be talked to, Tom Ricks reports in his new Foreign Policy blog. This is an Iraq war lesson.

[SWJ Blog] One Busy Guy and the New FP (SWJ Blog): In The Gamble, Ricks documents the inside story of the Iraq war from 2006 through 2008. Using hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reporting, Ricks -- working in the .

[Perception Managers] Perception Managers: Ongoing combat in Iraq is illegal under US ...: Refined by intelligence services as they tried to manipulate foreign populations, the practice eventually seeped into domestic U.S. politics as a way to manipulate post Vietnam War era public opinion. "If want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face…FOREVER!"- George Orwell

[Armchair Generalist] Armchair Generalist: Good Nat Strat Websites: Singer: Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century · Peter R. Mansoor: Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq .

[Politico.com: Lobbyists] The Crypt: Cheney: Iraq intel was "wrong" - Politico.com: there's a saying that I heard before." Americans have the tendency to forget what happen 3, 4 days ago" people don't see the coincidence that the Oil is as low as when the Bush Administration came into office, Everyone was talking about how scarce Oil was and now I don't hear nobody discussing this issue..The only thing they wanted is to corner the Oil market, Make as much money as possible, let some people take a piece of the pie so they can keep their mouth shut and now our poor country that we love so much are suffering for the greed that some influential powerful people did for power..In this reality that we call world, they are always gonna Be losers and winners, and must of us that whines are losers, cause if we were winners we wouldn't complain..and I'm speaking from a loser point of view...I STILL LOVE THIS COUNTRY,,AMERICA IS BEST COUNTRY AND WITH A NEW PRESIDENT WE WILL SHOW OUR POTENTIAL...AND HOPEFULLY I WILL BE A WINNER ONE DAY

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: I would think ego and pride would take a back seat to pressing issues at this time….Ms Feinstein needs to be cooperative rather than combative….her "I just heard of this….he didn't ask me" sounds petty and childish….I would rather not have someone in that seat that is a "company" man right now….bring in new blood like Paneta that doesn't already have established loyalties and ties to those that went before him and got us into this mess. Maybe Ms Feinstein can help Paneta "learn the ropes"….oh wait, she's the NEW head of this committee….

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