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 [Associated Press News - Salon.com] Iraq official urges approval of US security accord - Salon.com: Many Iraqi officials and lawmakers privately acknowledge that the country's army and police are still unable to maintain security on their own. But they find it politically risky to support an agreement that would continue what most Iraqis consider U.S. military occupation -- even though the deal includes a date for the mission to end.

 [SWJ Blog] 11 November SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): This is a unique contribution to the burgeoning literature on the Iraq war, analyzing the day-to-day performance of a US brigade in Baghdad during 2004-2005. Mansoor uses a broad spectrum of sources to address the military, political and cultural aspects of an operation undertaken with almost no relevant preparation, which tested officers and men to their limits and generated mistakes and misjudgments on a daily basis.

 [Associated Press News - Salon.com] Iraq: No hasty change in US policy with Obama win - Salon.com: The foreign minister said Obama told Iraqi leaders earlier this year during meetings in Baghdad and Washington that "any decision that concerns Iraq would be taken after thorough discussions with the Iraqi government and field military leaders."

 [Firedoglake] Firedoglake » When Will Obama Withdraw from Iraq?: At the end of the day, the only people who are going to make Iraq stable are Iraqis, with the help of their close neighbors who have a real interest in their stability. Americans are exacerbating internal tensions, especially Sunni/Shia tensions, even as their muscle ensures that no one can succesfully militarily challenge Maliki.

 [Associated Press News - Salon.com] Insurgents to Obama: Pull troops from Iraq - Salon.com: Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, self-styled head of the al-Qaida front group the Islamic State of Iraq, said in a speech posted on an extremist Web site that it would be better "for you and us" to "withdraw your forces," according to the SITE Intelligence Group that monitors militant Web sites.

[Armchair Generalist] Armchair Generalist: The Real Defense Imperatives: He must simultaneously deal with a crisis in US-Iraqi relations over the future role of US forces in Iraq, and a recommendation from his military commanders that some 20,000-25,000 more US troops be deployed in Afghanistan. There will be no pause in the terrorist pressure from Al Qa’ida in Iraq, a winter campaign will already be underway in Afghanistan, and the many of the details of an extraordinarily bleak NIE on the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan will almost certainly have become public.

[Lifestyles/entertainment from www.thetimes-tribune.com] Ravages of war won’t slow pair of area vets | News | thetimes ...: Kacer joined the National Guard at age 17, while he was still attending Carbondale Senior High school. After graduation, he moved from job to job and then was deployed to Germany.

 [TakePart Blog Network] Happy Veterans Day : Top 10 War Films | TakePart Blog Network: Let me know if I missed your favorite and be sure to takepart with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America this Veterans day. 10.

 [Where's the Outrage?] Where’s the Outrage? » Don’t forget Iraq: Medical Ethics/Issues · Mess O'Potamia (Iraq/Iran/Israel/Palestine) · Military · Walter Reed · NASA · National Intelligence · National Intelligence Estimate · Newsletter · Obama administration · Other Political Thoughts · Party Politics .

[Armchair Generalist] Armchair Generalist: Rewriting Bush's Arms Control History: Third, the pain and controversy of Iraq seem to have created a situation in which some would-be diplomatic or military partners have acquired a neuralgia about armed compliance enforcement even when there is a great and indisputable proliferation threat.

[LiberalOasis : The Blog] LiberalOasis: On Fox News Sunday, leading House conservative Mike Pence looked at the success of ballot initiatives that deny equal marriage rights as evidence that .

 [Informed Comment] Informed Comment: Glantz: Veterans Day, 2008 : Tasks for the Obama ...: *High profile monthly press conferences from the Department of Veterans Affairs announcing how many Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have filed disability claims as a result of their service (over 300,000 as of October 2nd), and how many have gone to the VA to treat their war wounds (currently close to 350,000, about 150,000 of whom went to the VA for help with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or other service-connected mental injuries). Like the Pentagon casualty statistics, these numbers only came to light because a veterans group, Veterans for Common Sense, demanded them under the Freedom of Information Act.

[NION - Front Page] NION:: NO to Proposal for New Terrorist Courts: Here, the AP trots out anonymous sources whose comments were immediately denied, on the record, and the musings of a constitutional law professor, Lawrence Tribe, whose gassing about a "hybrid legal system" was likewise immediately shot down, but whom people all over the blogosphere (including, alas, you), on absolutely no evidence--you know, "no evidence," as in what we're always complaining about in re the prisoners in Guantanamo--are claiming was deliberately deployed by the Obama people to float a "trial balloon."

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