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[Michael Moore - This Just In] "The new low in assessments of U.S. progress in Afghanistan compares favorably to the low point for the Iraq war from January 2007, when only 28 percent thought things were going well for the United States in Iraq,'' Gallup notes in its report today. "But perceptions have shifted rather dramatically since then, and now 51 percent of Americans give a positive assessment of the Iraq war...

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[Pollster.com Mark Blumenthal] Pollster.com: US: Iraq, Afghanistan (Gallup-3/14-15): "Forty-two percent of Americans now say the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Afghanistan, up from 30% earlier this year and establishing a new high. Meanwhile, the 53% who say the Iraq war is a mistake is down slightly from 56% in January, and 60% last summer."

[Islam News Room] Islam News Room - Afghanistan - The New Iraq?: “Let me say this as plainly as I can: "Our Mission In Iraq - Will End in 2010" But what about the 70000 troops being sent to Afghanistan right now? This further supports the stereotypes held by many around the world that we, Americans, value our lives - and even our pockets - more than the lives of others, that we believe our lives and blood are valuable, but that the lives of non-Americans .

[Atlantic Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times] Bush War Crimes are Jeopardizing Public Health in Afghanistan and Iraq: What’s more, on March 4, 2007, U.S. marines left the Jalalabad, Afghanistan, battlefield “without attending to those whom they had wounded,” Haas writes, and in July, 2008, U.S. soldiers blocked Afghan villagers from rescuing wounded civilians they sought to take to the hospital. This violates Article 1 of the Geneva Convention of 1949 that states “The wounded and sick shall be collected and cared for.”

[mcclatchydc.com: Homepage] In Iraq, a boy named 'War' turns 6 | McClatchy: On his birthday and the anniversary of the Iraq war, Iman's uncertainty about the future remains that of six years ago. No one knows the future of the nation or War's.

[Poll Tracker] CQ Politics | Poll Tracker - Americans Increasingly Concerned ...: At the same time, those who think sending troops to Afghanistan jumped from 30 percent earlier this year to 42 percent. Those polled said by 54 percent to 38 percent that things were going very or moderately badly in Afghanistan, compared to 52 percent to 44 percent earlier this year.

[Windows to Russia - The Russian Blog!] From Russia: The New Obama War - Afghanistan! | Windows to Russia ...: I was drinking my morning cup of coffee here in Moscow, Russia and thinking about Obama and why he has sent 17,000 more troops into Afghanistan. I had been talking to Svet about the fact that by doing this Obama has made the Afghanistan war his war.

[PoliTrix] PoliTrix » Blog Archive » Lorelei Kelly: Iraq War Year Six:Our ...: In early March, 2003 I was working on Capitol Hill, and I sat in on a discussion with two Army academics who laid out a hypothetical situation where the US would invade and occupy Iraq…They had a sobering list of 140 responsibilities that we would have to assume–everything from setting up a central bank to managing garbage collection. Some of the data was from the US-Allied experience in post World War II Germany and Japan…but many of the insights also came from the Army’s own knowledge gained since 1991–the year the Cold War ended.

[The Swamp] Iraq war up, Afghanistan war down: Poll: The Swamp: "The new low in assessments of U.S. progress in Afghanistan compares favorably to the low point for the Iraq war from January 2007, when only 28 percent thought things were going well for the United States in Iraq,'' Gallup notes in its report today. "But perceptions have shifted rather dramatically since then, and now 51 percent of Americans give a positive assessment of the Iraq war...

[God's Politics Blog] The latest news on Iraq Anniversary, AIG Bonuses, Fed Aids Economy ...: “President Obama and his advisers have decided to significantly expand Afghanistan’s security forces in the hope that a much larger professional army and national police force could fill a void left by the central government and do more to promote stability in the country, according to senior administration and Pentagon officials.”

[Counterterrorism Blog] Counterterrorism Blog: Iraq: Winning the War with Women: Earlier this month, I was invited as a guest speaker by Columbia University to present my research findings on women in Iraq's insurgency. The same week, I offered a similar presentation at Rutgers University School of Law, which devoted an entire day to "The Gender Dimensions of Terror." This week, I received two interview requests from international journalists about female bombers in Iraq, which makes it clear that the world community continues to seek answers to the bomber behind the veil.

[All Our Might] All Our Might » Blog Archive » Tooting a pretty lame horn on Iraq: Because things are finally on the up-and-up, we should be very cautiously optimistic.  Obama’s withdrawal schedule is a healthy mix of politics (fulfilling a campaign promise), diplomacy (working with Iraq’s government), strategy (the lull in violence), and necessity (the depleted American military and focus on Afghanistan).  If things turn bad as the withdrawal proceeds, it is the highly unfortunate result of tangled history, unreasoned optimism, and geo-strategic necessity.

[Commentary » Contentions] Commentary » Blog Archive » Iraq on the Mend: I have never understood why anyone thought this would be a short war, and here’s why: when we speak of the Iraqis, we mean Iraqi men–not so much as we once did, thank God, and Bush, and Petraeus–and that’s why I have always assumed it must be a long involvement. We need to see a generation of Iraqi women who have voted, a generation which can read and has taught its daughters to read, Iraqi women who imagine a future for their daughters that involves something beyond genital mutilation and honor killings.

[Kings of War] Iraq, Afghanistan and British Strategy « Kings of War: The last strategic defence review was conducted in 1998 with an update in 2002.55 At the moment, the British public possesses little sense of the reasons why the expeditionary operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are vital to their security and worth the substantial cost in men and materiel. Meanwhile there is an impending clash between the expeditionary campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan and the desperately failing domestic counter-radicalization campaign which is itself a counterinsurgent operation (though it is not acknowledged as such) of daunting scale.

[NIGERIA BEST FORUM BLOG] NIGERIA BLOG, INTERNET, MARKETING, WEB HOSTING, DESIGN, SOFTWARES ...: “This is just Shepherd’s way of avoiding his responsibilities completely - not going to Iraq and not willing to go to jail for breaking his promises and forcing his duties on his comrades,” writes Desert Storm veteran and blogger, Jonn Lilyea.

[SWJ Blog] 19 March 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.

[KMBC.com - National News Headlines] As War Hits 6th Year, Iraq's Future Unclear - Kansas City News ...: WASHINGTON -- It's now been six years since the United States went to war in Iraq, and while the end of the U.S. mission there is in sight, Iraq's future isn't entirely clear.

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