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[Untitled] as well as meet the promises made to the people of America.  Defense Secretary Robert Gates must also be prepared to reformulate his outlook and strategies pertaining to the Iraq war come January 20.  As the year comes to a close, I think we’ll see foreign policy issues once again take over the headlines amid the global economic turmoil which has recently garnered public attention.

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[QandO] http://www.qando.net/ - Britain, War, Obama, Political Leadership ...: On the other side of that, what Iraq has done that is indeed worth its weight in gold (and it is a tribute to our leadership and, especially, the will of our fighting men and women) is it has removed from the world's conventional wisdom the belief that we couldn't sustain casualties and wouldn't commit to a long war. It isn't the US who eventually cut and ran from Iraq to set up shop again in Pakistan, it was our avowed enemy who declared Iraq its "central front".

[Untitled] Obama's Challenges, Zimbabwe Intervention, and Optimism in Iraq ...: Troops in Iraq: Saad Jawad of Baghdad University criticizes the agreement that allows American troops to stay in Iraq beyond the end of this year. He describes it as an entirely undeserved victory for the outgoing neoconservative U.S. .

[Untitled] Abu Hatem أبو حاتم » Tony Dodge: Iraq still sucks: Anyway, Dodge argues that, in a nuthshell, Iraq still sucks.  Despite all the hooplah about the surge and the magical new Iraq, the place is still a mess and has the danger of becoming a mess again.  Anyone who checks out the Brooking Institution’s Iraq Index, and I encourage everyone to do so every few months, knows that Iraqi infrasctructure and civil society is doing better than the past two years, but still is absolutely atrocious.

[Untitled] World Prout Assembly: Trying to Redefine Role of US Military in ...: (Photo: Joao Silva for The New York Times)The short answers are that combat troops, defined by the military as those whose primary mission is to engage the enemy with lethal force, will have to be out of Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, the deadline under a recently approved status-of-forces agreement between the United States and Iraq.

[Untitled] Moving on... | Democracy in America | Economist.com: ORG polls its members and finds that their priorities for the Barack Obama administration are, in this order: health care, the economy, the environment, and ending the war in Iraq. At the American Spectator, Philip Klein is not .

[TIM BLAIR: NEWS-SPORTS-WEATHER BLOG SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. JOINT BASE LEWIS - McCHORD, SOLDIERS & AIRMEN DEFENDING AMERICA! 2009] veteransforcomonsense.org - Windows Live: Never again should our government use mercenaries such as Blackwater, a private company accused of murdering innocent civilians in Iraq. VCS believes our government - and not corporations seeking war profits - should have a monopoly on the use of force to protect our national security.

[Untitled] Governor Paterson Travels to Iraq - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com: Do you suppose these two congressmen invited Governor Paterson along for the ride knowing that it was going to be a long one, and a perfect chance for them to state their individual qualifications for being catapulted right into a seat in the U.S. Senate without having to pass Go or even collecting Two Hundred Campaign Dollars?

[Politics and Culture] SHOES and INSULTS Hurled at George BUSH on IRAQ Visit | Politics ...: In the middle of the news conference with Mr Maliki, Iraqi television journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi stood up and shouted “this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog,” before hurling a shoe at Mr Bush which narrowly missed him.

[Untitled] America's New Year's Resolution: A Return to Integrity | The ...: 14, an Iraqi journalist took off his shoes and hurled them at President Bush's head, turning himself into a folk hero overnight. The public embrace of his colorful outrage stands as one more sign that the world's people are fed up and aren't going to take it anymore.

[Untitled] Iraq Briefing: A Brief History of Mesopotamia - Baghdad Bureau ...: For soldiers in the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment, this Christmas will be an unforgettable time of wonder and merriment spent with families after being deployed for fifteen months in Iraq.

[mothanskin.blog-city.com] "Attack Iran Now Ask Questions Later?" ["PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS"]: The President and his advisers believe that they are acting in accordance with the authorities given to the executive by the US Constitution, and by legislative authority as well, as provided for in both the Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution of September 14, 2001 (after the attacks of September 11, where Congress not only authorized the President to use military force against the perpetrators of the terror attacks but also against those nations deemed to be harboring people or organizations involved in the attacks), and the Authorization of Military Force Against Iraq resolution of October 2002 (where Congress concurred that any presidential action would be "consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations or persons who planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001").

[Antiwar.com Blog] Antiwar.com Blog · Paul Weyrich and Wars: I don’t think I’ll ever forget the apologetic of the Bush stem-cell compromise Weyrich launched in 2001, and that in the teeth of the clear opposition of the Vatican and the UCCB. I even contended with him about it in a letter to FirstThings whose editor at the time, Richard Neuhaus, also couldn’t quite bring himself to oppose Bush on the question.

[Untitled] 22 December SWJ Roundup (Early Edition) (SWJ Blog): Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.

[Untitled] RealClearWorld - Blog: Under the Obama-Biden plan, a residual force will remain in Iraq and in the region to conduct targeted counter-terrorism missions against al Qaeda in Iraq and to protect American diplomatic and civilian personnel. They will not build permanent bases in Iraq, but will continue efforts to train and support the Iraqi security forces as long as Iraqi leaders move toward political reconciliation and away from sectarianism.

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