juancole.com - 8/7/2008
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The Guardian's Ghaith Abdul-Ahad went back to Baghdad to see the effects of last year's troop escalation ("surge"). He argues that the US military's blast walls and forcible division of the city into isolated micro-neighborhoods are the cause of the reduction in deaths, not extra troops. The Real News provides a transcript.
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abuaardvark.typepad.com 8/7/2008 — While I've been too busy to post for the last week, I've been following the saga of the provincial elections law closely. When the Parliament finally adjourned without reaching agreement, I was not particularly happy to be proven correct ...
A voting penalty after the penalty
al.com 8/7/2008 — Annette McWashington Pruitt watched her 18-year-old son graduate from high school this May. She proudly tells people that he is going into the Navy, following in the footsteps of his older brother (who is serving in Iraq) and his grandfather (who was ...
Iraqi lawmaker: We are doing our share —
CNN.com - Politics 8/6/2008
Iraq's government is pulling its weight to reconstruct its war-torn country, Shiite lawmaker Haidre al-Abadi said Wednesday, a day after U.S. auditors announced that Iraq has amassed projected surpluses of up to $80 billion from rising oil prices ...
'Moneyman' Pays Iraq's Sunni Forces —
WSJ.com: Politics And Policy 8/8/2008
The U.S. military is stuck paying Sunni members of Iraq's security forces after the Shiite-dominated government balked at the idea. The task of handing out salaries requires a solider, nicknamed the "moneyman," to carry a suitcase full of ...
POLTICAL HOT TOPICS: Friday, Aug. 8, 2008 —
CNN Political Ticker 8/8/2008
CNN: U.S. troops may leave by 2011, Iraqi officials say
Iraq and the United States are close to reaching a deal under which U.S. combat troops would leave by December 2010 and the rest would leave by the end of 2011, two Iraqi officials said ...
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