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[ware~abouts] Analysis: Iraq not ready to face al Qaeda « ware~abouts: Analysis: Iraq not ready to face al Qaeda By Michael Ware CNN October 28, 2009 ”” Updated 1752 GMT (0152 HKT). NEW YORK (CNN) ”” The bombs that ripped through Baghdad on Sunday immediately brought more bloodshed ”” and bode only of the promise .

[blogfrommiddleeast.com] Iraq snapshot - November 18, 2009: And I have to tell you just recently with in the last two weeks, I went to two veterans homeless shelters in New York City to give a motivational speech and some of these guys are really whipped down and they're broken. And you start talking to them and I try to motivate them and I try to tell them, "Look when we help you get a job, you will get back your self-respect and dignity and-and it will put you on the road to getting an even better job." And so we go there, we go right into the shelters, we talk to them, we give them a speech, and around town, we have a card and it says: "Do you need a job?

[The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories] Bush's Rose-Colored Glasses - Page 1 - The Daily Beast: Let's think of some Bush names: Dick "Halliburton and the single source contracts" Cheney, Alberto "indicted in Spain for Torture" Gonzalez, Scooter "outted a covert CIA operative"" Libby, Tommy "falsify medicare prescription drug plan information in a public ad campaign" Thompson, not to mention Abu Gharib, Blackwater, the list goes on with the Bushies.

[The Cedar Lounge Revolution] A Blair supporter writes about British Labour”¦and they wonder why ...: Anyway, the point is that large chunks of the New Labour project were skilfully rebranded Thatcherism, but whereas the original Thatcherites seemed to execute things with a cold sneer, Blairites adopted a shiny, happy and caring approach to marketizing and metriculating everything that moved, on behalf of the middle class. Now that Cameron has stolen their clobber, it looks like they’re starting to bare their teeth as they howl in anguish.

[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] Freeman: "Iraq Is Not a Flimsy Construction" - Hit & Run : Reason ...: Funny, what made me most upset about Freeman's e-mail wasn't thecomments on Tienanmen Square (as bad as they were, China isanother, very different country), but the ones on the Bonus Army -when thousands of impoverished American vets and their familiescollected in DC for a small amount of promised aid to be releasedearly to ease their condition during the first Depression - 4 werekilled, a thousand plus injured in the suppression.

[World War 4 Report blogs] Iraq terror targets Shi'ite pilgrims ””again | World War 4 Report: BAGHDAD ”” Five Iranians were killed and 35 others wounded northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday when gunmen attacked a convoy of buses carrying pilgrims to holy Shiite sites in Iraq, officials said. It was the latest in a flurry of attacks that have killed or wounded scores in the last week alone.

[Pj News| Latest Daily News About World News, Business, Tech and Entertainment] Short Plot Lines Of A Cross Section Of Feature Films | Pj News ...: Cast includes Cristina Raines, Ava Gardner, Chris Sarandon, Burgess Meredith, Sylvia Miles, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, John Carradine, Christopher Walken, Eli Wallach, Jerry Orbach, Jeff Goldblum, Beverly D’ Angelo, Martin Balsam, William Hickey, and Tom Berenger.

[Just Above Sunset] Saying the Right Thing at the Right Time « Just Above Sunset: The general idea was that if Obama chafed about these soldiers, or any of our soldiers, he’d send twenty divisions into Afghanistan tomorrow, giving McChrystal ten times over what McChrystal requested, and anytime we happened to accidently kill a few hundred civilians, he’d not even mention it, much less apologize to any widows or children and that sort of thing. Thus Moss says Obama “has no right to speak for me or any other soldier serving this country.”

[blogfrommiddleeast.com] <i>Afghan Lessons From the Iraq War</i><br> The Bogus Success of ...: Bush had been voicing lots of optimism about the Iraq War and Vice President Dick Cheney had claimed the enemy was "in its last throes." But it was becoming increasingly clear by 2006 that sectarian violence was ripping Iraq apart, that the death toll of American troops was rising, and that U.S. defeat was looming.

[Hot Air TV] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Dick Cheney rips Obama on the war: In other words, Cheney won’t sit quietly while Obama shifts blame for his own lack of decisiveness onto Bush and Cheney.  The notion is risible anyway.  Obama campaigned for two years on the promise to fight a more robust counterinsurgency strategy, in large part to dispel the notion that he was an anti-war pacifist.  He reaffirmed that decision repeatedly this year, most recently by appointing Ge. Stanley McChrystal, the Army’s leading COIN expert, to command in Afghanistan.  Now that McChrystal has requested the resources that comes with COIN, suddenly it’s all Bush’s fault.

[Talk Islam] Malik Nidal Hassan was disciplined for p”¦ « Talk Islam: I had a very, very extremely horrible thought…..what if….you were an extremely intelligent and educated individual…..that felt keenly the….wrongness of the Iraq and Afghanistan situs…and what if….you counseled conscientious objectors and suicidal soldiers on a daily basis and knew full well…..no gave a rap about their objections and depressions …indeed, no one gives a damn about the mil suicide rate at all……..and what if you were active duty mil and couldn’t resign in protest like State Departmrnt Official Matthew Hoh…..

[Shiraz Socialist] “Dear Comrade Harman” « Shiraz Socialist: It was not necessary, it was self-disabling, to develop the fantasy that large numbers of Muslims, as they are, without changing except in being roused as Muslims by opposition to the war in Iraq, could be won - to what? - by solidarising with them on their own political terrain and mimicking their politics and their “Islamism”.

[Antiwar.com Blog] Guarding the Surge Narrative While Iraq Burns « Antiwar.com Blog: The FBI's counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering that some of the vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior government officials.

[Centurean2's Weblog] “Islam Not Responsible” For Fort Hood Massacre: US Imam”¦.Well Ah ...: The word on the so-called Arab street is that Major Nidal Malik Hasan should be admired because he stood up for fellow Muslims overseas, against U.S. “aggression,” and that his anger, disappointment, and presumed sense of betrayal over U.S. President Barack Obama’s failure to end the Afghan and Iraq conflicts is understandable, especially in light of Obama’s own Muslim heritage.

[Jihad Watch] Seized Letter Outlines Al Qaeda Goals in Iraq - Jihad Watch: They have too narrowly focused on one geographical area, too narrowly focused on one instrument of Jihad - “terrorism” as in that idiotic and therefore infuriating phrase “the war on terror” and have focused only on ways to make lives of Muslims in Iraq so much saner and better and healthier in every respect that magically, we are led to believe, other Muslims in all those Sunni Arab-dominated countries will be delighted to observe the manner in which Shi’a Arabs can take over and dominate Sunni Arabs in this Iraq the Model, and what with Iraq becoming a veritable Light Unto the Muslim Nations, everyone will calm down, and no one will read the Qur'an or Hadith or find inspiration in the life of Muhammad again, and the 1300 years of hostility betwee Sunni and Shi'a, or the hatred inculcated in Muslims toward all Believers, will simply evanesce as New England Town Meetings spread from the Land of the Two Rivers all the way to the Sherifian monarch's domain in distant Morocco. And and if the Shi’a Arab-dominated state in Iraq can somehow be offered as an attractive model for the Sunni Arabs (instead of a state those Sunni Arabs wish every curse upon), can’t Iraq's now-ruling Shi'a also be a model for trouble-making and murderous Muslims everywhere - say, in the southern areas of Thailand, and the Philippines, or in the Sudan, or Nigeria, or for that matter in Bradford, England or Barbes-Rochechouart among those sinister and dangerous (to French people - but hell, what rights do they have to Paris anyway?) quartiers chauds now everywhere in France?

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