Iraq Reviews > Security Council Unanimously Extends Iraq Mandate:

http://pajamasmedia.com [Pajamas Media] Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend the mandate of the 160,000-member multinational force in Iraq. The council acted quickly in response to a request from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who said a top government priority is to assume full responsibility for security and stability in the country but it needs more time.

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http://iraqelectionwire.blogspot.com [Iraqelectionwire.blogspot.com] Iraq Elections newswire: Barham Saleh said Iraqi leaders were nearing agreement on a long-awaited hydrocarbon law that would allow potentially huge investments by foreign companies in Iraq's oil sector. He was hopeful that oil would be a "unifying force," but conceded that wrangling continued over whether it would be controlled locally or by the central government.

http://www.juancole.com [Juancole.com] Informed Comment: Since the US Coalition Provisional Authority essentially stole $9 billion from Iraq to run itself and the country the first year, basically the $9 billion actually spent on reconstruction by the US was little more than a repayment of the money taken (quite illegally under the law of Occupation), and the actual US investment in Iraq is zero. While the American public is being taxed to pay a bill for Iraq mounting toward $1 trillion (and Americans are nowadays staring the tax man in the face), that appears to go mostly to finance continued search and destroy missions that are probably mostly failures as counter insurgency.

Raedinthemiddle.blogspot.comhttp://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com [Raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com] Raed in the Middle: At the same time that millions of Iraqis were and are still being killed, injured, and displaced because of the U.S. interventions, at the same time that the Iraqi social fabric is being destroyed and turned into fragments, at the same time that Iraq as a state is being “wiped off the map” and cut apart, at the same time that everyday in Iraq is worse than the day before, and at the same time that tens of thousand of U.S. solders are being killed, injured, and traumatized for the rest of their lives and trillions of the U.S. taxpayers money wasted, the one and only victory that the bush administration can claim is hanging the former dictator.

http://americablog.blogspot.com [Americablog.blogspot.com] AMERICAblog: A blog for a great nation that deserves the truth: He's appeared on over 150 programs on CNN, CNBC, NPR, FoxNews and other stations, and has written for Knight Ridder, The American Prospect, Salon.com, The Miami Herald and The Fordham Urban Law Journal, among other outlets. Cliff blogs at www.gadflyer.com

http://iraqpundit.blogspot.com [Iraqpundit.blogspot.com] IraqPundit: According to an American serviceman stationed outside Baghdad, the struggle over Iraq "is the opening battle of the ideological struggle of the 21st century." That serviceman wrote recently to the online edition of The Wall Street Journal, in reaction to the debate over U.S. strategy. According to his lengthy email, "failure in Iraq would be worse than a dozen Somalias." His email includes an extended list of suggestions to improve Iraq's deteriorating security situation.

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