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http://wb42.blogspot.com ["On Topic" With Doug Krile] Make that insanity”¦ Let’s take a look at this surge by the numbers. The Army acknowledged last week, for example, that it is still 22 percent short of the armored Humvees it needs in Iraq despite heated criticism in 2004 and 2005 over the lack of armored vehicles.

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http://iraqnow.blogspot.com [Iraqnow.blogspot.com] COUNTERCOLUMN: With your host, Huck of Darkness: Put another way””when a brutal and oppressive dictatorship such as Saddam’s has incurred mountains of debt, with no democratic participation in fiscal policy whatsoever, and the proceeds from the loans are spent irresponsibly, or even used against his own subjects, then very serious questions can be raised about the obligation of the people of Iraq to pay back the loan. The debt may be considered “odious” to the Iraqi people, and while they may take a purely pragmatic decision to honor those debts in order to secure cash flow and financing from other sources, they are not under any moral obligation””and perhaps under no legal obligation to do so.

Sfgate.comhttp://www.sfgate.com [Sfgate.com] SFGate: Anna Badkhen's Journal: For two days, Chronicle photographer Kim Komenich and I paced up and down a 100-yard stretch of dirty red carpet outside the door of the coalition press center at Baghdad's Convention Center, where we were confined while waiting for a flight to take us west .Or, as they call it here, the Wild West: Al Anbar province, Iraq's most volatile region, where insurgents run desert towns like miniature models of Afghanistan when it was ruled by the Taliban -- complete with public executions.

http://www.fumento.com [Fumento.com] Michael Fumento.com - Weblog Iraq Archives: The non-coverage reflects the arrogance of the Baghdad press corps of which I've complained, which pretends that the most dangerous place in all of Iraq is a hotel and the second most dangerous place is "Route Irish" from the airport into the city. Never mind that no American reporter has ever been killed in a Baghdad hotel or on Route Irish, nor that Route Irish despite still being called "The Highway of Death" is far safer than it used to be, or that taking a helo or the armored "Rhino" bus drops your odds of being killed or hurt to virtually zero.

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