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[The Long War Journal] Al Qaeda takes credit for last week's Baghdad bombings - The Long ...: The groups began to clash after al Qaeda assassinated tribal leaders and leaders of rival insurgent groups, and attempted to take over the Sunni insurgency through the Islamic State of Iraq. Other Sunni insurgent groups such as the 1920s Revolution Brigades turned on al Qaeda and formed government-sanctioned militias called Awakening councils.

[Nukes & Spooks] Blog: Nukes & Spooks: We know all this - and we also know that it is an open secret in Washington that the nation's uniformed military leadership is skeptical about the wisdom of war with Iraq. They share the concern that it may adversely affect the ongoing war against Al Qaeda and the continuing effort in Afghanistan by draining resources and armed forces already stretched so thin that many Reservists have been called for a second year of duty, and record numbers of service members have been kept on active duty beyond their obligated service.

[Understanding War RSS Feed] Book Review: Wrapping up operations in Iraq | Institute for the ...: By mid-2006, it was apparent that the strategy of quickly handing the war over to the Iraqi government and its security forces was disastrously premature. The undisciplined Afghan National Police had become a virtual Shia militia that was enabling ethnic cleansing of the Sunni population while al Qaeda in Iraq terrorized the Sunni population that failed to show proper enthusiasm for radical jihad.

[philstar.com - Breaking News] Iraq's al-Qaeda claims Baghdad government bombings | Home >> Other ...: Edward Kennedy's body will travel for at least two hours from his Cape Cod home to Boston, where it will lie in repose for two days before his funeral at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia." href="Article.aspx?articleId=499836&publicationSubCategoryId=200">Kennedy to have Boston funeral, Arlington burial

[EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS] Ted Kennedy on How America Got Mired in Iraq « EUROPE TURKMEN ...: The following year, Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld and 16 others-10 of whom are now serving in or officially advising the current Bush Administration-wrote President Clinton, urging him to use military force to remove Saddam. They said, “The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction.

[Civil Religion] Tragedies of the Invasion of Iraq. Part 3. The gift that keeps on ...: Osama bin Laden was the head of the organization that carried out the attacks on 9/11.  The greatest tragedy of the Invasion of Iraq is that it started an unnecessary war that replaced a war we should have fought. The rush to invade a nation without any proof of them attacking us was not only immoral it also took us away from fighting an enemy who clearly attacked us. 

[Jihad Watch] Jihad Watch: Fitzgerald: "We Walked Away From Them Twice," Or ...: This hope was never quite spelled out, never quite explained to us who are the citizens watching helplessly at the folly of this policy, first in Iraq and now, with apparently no lessons learned, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A coherent and cunning and even ruthless policy should long ago have been crafted, one devoid of sentimentalism, one recognizing that the most important theatre of war was not in Iraq, nor in Afghanistan, nor in Pakistan but, rather, right now, in the imperiled states of Western Europe, where the growth of Muslim populations threatens to change the tenor of life, the quality of life, and the orientation toward the United States, of those countries that constitute the historic heart of the West, and that without Europe the United States would lose its civilisational ancestry.

[The Rural Democrat] The Rural Democrat: Teddy Kennedy will be missed!: Just one year into the campaign against Al Qaeda, the Administration is shifting focus, resources, and energy to Iraq. The change in priority is coming before we have fully eliminated the threat from Al Qaeda, before we know whether Osama Bin Laden is dead or alive, and before we can be assured that the fragile post-Taliban government in Afghanistan will consolidate its authority.

[Breaking News] Al-Qaida umbrella group in Iraq claims responsibility for bombings ...: Iraqis show confession of chief bombing suspectBAGHDAD ”” Facing widespread criticism over security lapses, the Iraqi military on Sunday broadcast the confession of a Sunni man identified as the mastermind of one of two suicide truck bombings targeting government buildings in Baghdad. The announcement comes as Iraqi lawmakers and other top officials have traded blame and called for investigations into how the bombers drove trucks past checkpoints and positioned them close to government institutions.

[The Opinionator] The Bombs of Iraq - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: Iraq’s Arabs and Kurds are nearly at war along the long front that separates the Kurdish region from the rest of Iraq, especially in and around Nineveh province, whose capital is Mosul, and over Tamim province, whose capital, Kirkuk, is coveted by the expansionist Kurds. Meanwhile, the Sunni Arab minority is increasingly alienated from the regime of Prime Minister Maliki, who’s staunchly refused to compromise with the demands of the opposition to his increasingly authoritarian rule.

[Clifton Heights Neighborhood News' White House Latest News and Updates Feed] The White House - Blog Post - Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Story of ...: He honored every generation that has taken part in that tradition, including the current generation that has served so nobly in Iraq and Afghanistan. He noted that as one percent of the American population, the troops have shouldered the massive burden of American security almost exclusively on their own, and explained that his commitment to diplomacy and engagement is a commitment to sharing the sacrifice, if even slightly, across the other 99%:

[Arab News] Arab News » Syria-Iran tussle over Iraq?: Right now, both Syria and Saudi Arabia probably feel they have a shared interest in minimizing the amount of influence Tehran can exercise over the Baghdad government– though I doubt if policymakers in either of those governments feel they can eliminate Iran’s influence completely, in the same way that Saddam Hussein was able to do, through the exercise of great internal repression, so long as he was in power…

[THE BLOGGER] Inside al Qaeda underground torture bunkers « THE BLOGGER: “As for most of al Qaeda in Iraq’s members, they are just looking to benefit themselves, or they join out of resentment for a certain sect or to avenge their families”. As for Iraq’s longterm stability, that very much still hangs in the balance. He says: “Peace will not be achieved by a magic wand or the rhetoric of a politician.

Mudville Gazette: On Tuesday, FNC's The O'Reilly Factor hosted FNC analyst Bernard Goldberg as the former CBS News correspondent highlighted a story recently posted on his Web site, BernardGoldberg.com, in which he complains of how little mainstream media attention was given to the fact that former President George W. Bush had volunteered to go to Vietnam as part of his service in the Texas Air National Guard, but that he was turned down because other pilots were more experienced, and that CBS News producer Mary Mapes, even though she knew this part of the story before the report aired, did not include this important angle in the infamous piece by Dan Rather that used forged documents to paint Bush as trying to avoid Vietnam War service.

[WORLDmag.com | Community] WORLDmag.com | Community | Blog Archive | STRATFOR: Iraq endgame: From the git-go the US and Euro partners in Iraq shoulda been firmer with the tribes, religious sect/factions and others bent on dismantling Iraq: “You folks get your act together by X date on the calendar. That might mean ea of you will have to surrender something to promote a higher unified goal of a sovereign nation with at least a modicum of recognizable freedom.”

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Is Iraq slipping away?: This will not be a critique of the Obama administration’s handling of Iraq.  They have been a pleasant surprise to the extent that they haven’t changed directions in Iraq.  It’s not even going to be a critique of the Bush administration, which signed the agreement to pull US troops off the line in Baghdad and other cities.  They had little choice, as Maliki and the Iraqi government wanted them out even earlier than July 1 of this year.  Maliki, who won a series of battles with the Mahdi Army to gain control of Iraq, thought his forces were up to the task of full-time security maintenance.

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