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[The Confluence] Saturday: Ed, you’re making this too easy: The Clinton-Obama plans on health care, the economy, energy, education and on ending the war in Iraq represent the core values that made us all Democrats - values and positions that are light years apart from the conservative policies enunciated by Sen. McCain (e.g., voting against S-CHIP, voting against raising CAF standards, voting against equal pay for women, voting for increased tax credits for big oil and against extending the credit for the production of renewable energy, expanding an increase in the Bush tax cuts, promoting a war without end in Iraq, etc.) If you care about these things, and we believe PUMA members do, then you must support Sen.
[Third Way Dispatch] Framing Iraq: A 50-50-50 Plan: We have 170,000 troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with a force that can sustain deployments there of only 100,000 at a time. Without a drawdown (or the extremely unlikely initiation of a draft), the exquisite machinery of our ground forces will seize.
[The New American] Did We Get Lied Into War?: “United Nations’ inspections also revealed that Iraq likely maintains stockpiles of VX, mustard and other chemical agents, and that the regime is rebuilding and expanding facilities capable of producing chemical weapons.” (Bush September 12, 2002)
[Sportsbetting Forums | Offshore Sportsbooks & Online Sports Picks] PNAC .... read it ... learn it .... why 9-11/Iraq happened: It makes a lot of people feel good that we "won" the battle for Iraq, but in doing so we paid too high a price at that, and may well have risked losing the larger war in the Arab/Muslim region: the U.S. now lacks moral stature and standing in much of the world, revealed as a liar for all to see (no WMDs in Iraq, no connection to 9/11, no quick handing-over the interim reins of government to the Iraqis as initially promised), destruction of a good share of the United Nation's effectiveness and prestige, needlessly alienating our traditional allies, infuriating key elements of the Muslim world, providing political and emotional ammunition for anti-U.S. terrorists, etc.
[quaker_mole] Iraq's Vanishing Chaldean Christians and the Ransom of Ninevah: These payments, American military officials and Iraqi Christians say, peaked from 2005 to 2007 and grew into a source of financing for the insurgency. They thus became a secret, shameful and extraordinary complication in the lives of Iraq’s Christians and their leaders ”” one that Christians are only now talking about more openly, with violence much lower than in the first years of the war.
[brothersjudd Blog] YIKES, IS SHE CONFUSED:: WMD was an afterthought. But Bush's big mistake was not having a joint appearance with the Congressional leadership after the House and Senate votes, and getting Democrats up there next to him to say they supported the measure in full (i.e., that it was a continuation and a fulfillment of Congressional policy on Iraq since the 1998 regime change vote).
[Adal Voice of Eritreans] Will the next war for oil be in Africa?: The concern is that, as it has in Iraq, a larger U.S. military presence in Africa will strain an already overburdened military while increasing internal hostilities, regional instability, and anger at the United States.
[CR Nation: News for College Republicans] CR Composition Corner: Afghanistan, a Work in Progress: Schloesser stated, “There’s been an increase ever since 2002 each year, and we came here fully expecting that there would be an increase this year.” He went on to say that, “We’re taking the fight to the enemy, but we are working in support areas that we had not been before inside of Afghanistan.” In expanding the area covered, the military must expect an increase in casualties. As in Iraq, insurgents have attempted to upset the reconstruction of Afghanistan through attacks on the developing local governments.
[Arizona Sports Fans Network] Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq: He was promoting his latest work, Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq.http://www.amazon.com/Marching-Towar.../dp/0743299698 Very interesting guy with some very blunt insight. His Wikipedia synopsis is very interesting. ...
[Know The Lies - Demistifying Poverty and Disease. What has Socio-economics done for you lately? -] Five Mystery Defense Contractors - Raking in BILLIONS of TAXPAYER ...: When the history of the Iraq War is finally written, chances are that these five billion-dollar babies, and most of the other defense contractors involved in making the U.S. occupation possible, will be left out. Until we begin coming to grips with the role of such corporations in creating the material basis for an imperial foreign policy, we'll never be able to grasp fully how the Pentagon works and why we so regularly make war in, and carry out occupations of, distant lands.
[1read's Weblog] THE WORLD today!: OPEC said no decision will be made until the next meeting in Vienna on September 9, however Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is completing development of its giant Khursaniyah field soon, increasing its output capacity by up to 500.000 barrels a day and is willing to bring production and supplies from actually 9.450.000 barrels a day, already 300.00 barrels a day higher since last month, to a total of 9,7 barrels a day in July, or more if the market requires it! The kingdom, complying with a huge expansion program in its oil industry to increase its spare oil production capacity to up to 12,5 Million barrels a day by the end of 2009, said at a meeting with important producers and consumers on Sunday in Jeddah, it is capable to boost this level another 2,5 Million barrels a day to 15 Million barrels a day if needed. Saudi Arabia is concerned today’s record prices might damp economic growth and lead to a lower oil demand, improving countries their energy efficiency, developing alternative sources of energy, including nuclear power. Saud Arabia wants oil price stability in the global market, a fair oil price not hurting producers neither consumers, and is worried about harmony between buyers and sellers, asking consumer countries to take measures to control and stop speculations in the futures markets to bring oil prices down from the actual unreasonable levels.
[SWJ Blog] 25 June SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: In a new report on the Iraq war, the Pentagon said yesterday that violence is down by as much as 80 percent from January last year, but the improved security gains remain "fragile, reversible and uneven." More than 100,000 armed Iraqi civilians are taking part in US-financed local security organizations, and the Iraqi army and police continue to grow in numbers and capability, with almost 500,000 trained personnel, the report said. But Iran has stepped up "large-scale" shipments of weapons, ammunition, explosives and trained fighters into Iraq, according to the Pentagon.
[Isha khan's Weblog] Of Illusory Democracies, Rogue States, and: ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003, deputy assistant to the president, deputy national security advisor for strategic planning, and presidential envoy to Iraq from 2003 to 2004, noted in The National Interest(1):
[Just Foreign Policy News] Just Foreign Policy News, June 26, 2008: The report lays out a comprehensive plan for withdrawal of U.S. forces by internationalising what is currently the U.S. role as the centre of political power and humanitarian aid in Iraq, engaging in regional dialogue to stem outside interference in Iraq and convincing neighbouring friends and foes alike to take a constructive role in reconstruction and development, and fomenting Iraqi reconciliation with international and regional support.
[SWJ Blog] 24 June SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: Two new government reports, one by the Pentagon, pointed Monday to encouraging security improvements in Iraq, but were decidedly pessimistic about prospects for political and economic progress and warned that costly military gains would remain fragile. One report, by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, concluded that many political reconciliation efforts have stalled, that Iraq's security forces remain largely unable to operate without US assistance and that its central government has not fulfilled commitments to spend its own money on reconstruction.
[Chrisy58's Weblog] America’s anti-torture tradition: His thoughts on the subject, expressed in a 1777 letter to his wife, might make a profitable read for Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld as we endeavor to win hearts and minds in Iraq. Adams wrote: “I know of no policy, God is my witness, but this ”” Piety, Humanity and Honesty are the best Policy.
[Diabetic Diet Blog] Hill’s science diet id: Iraq violated many UN resolutions, but even the President has acknowledged that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, the removal of which was the stated purpose of the war! There is also no evidence that any terrorist groups used Iraq as what you call Afghanistan 2.0, and in fact would have had little reason to do so, given the fact that Al-Qaeda and their ilk were promoting Islamic fundamentalism, which Saddam Hussein himself viewed as a threat.
[RightNation.US Community Blog List] Admiral's Chair - Obama - The New King of Flip Flop: going mano a mano with McCain on McCain's terms. No one would blame Obama for holding out for a more favorable deal, if only he had not said, "Anywhere, anytime."
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