article.nationalreview.com - 11/18/2008
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F or the United States in Iraq, nothing is ever simple. If the two agreements struck by Washington and Baghdad this weekend tell us nothing else, they tell us that. For nearly a year, American and Iraqi negotiators have haggled over future relations between our nations: both immediate military ...
online.wsj.com - 11/20/2008
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WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama is facing an
early confrontation with the Pentagon over the hot-button issue...
of how fast to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, with some senior officers arguing for a slower drawdown. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman ...
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Pentagon Wary of Fast Iraq Withdrawal
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 11/18/2008
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Zombie Time is promoting Saturday, November 22, 2008
as-- "Victory in Iraq Day!" We won. The Iraq...
War is over. I declare November 22, 2008 to be "Victory in Iraq Day." (Hereafter known as "VI Day.") By every measure, The United States and ...
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November 22nd --- Victory In Iraq Day!
mcclatchydc.com - 11/20/2008
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WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed
the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from...
Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for ...
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Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq
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Obsidian Wings —
by Eric Martin
Credit where due, Andy McCarthy is rather forthright in lamenting the collapse of our neo-imperial designs in Iraq in a piece discussing the SOFA/Framework Agreement that is now on the fast track to ratification. While refreshingly honest and, at times, stripped of the exceptionalist sentimentality often used to sell modern day ...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
"This last point is the one that gnaws. Thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions in taxpayer funds have been expended to provide Iraqis the opportunity to live freely. And this despite the facts that (a) the U.S. interest in Iraqi democracy remains tenuous (our interest was the elimination of Saddam’s terror-mongering, weapons-proliferating regime), and (b) Americans were assured, when the nation-building enterprise commenced, that oil-rich Iraq would underwrite our sacrifices on its behalf. Yet, to be blunt, the Iraqis remain ingrates. That stubborn fact complicates everything." - Andy McCarthy, NRO.
Churchill said the same: an ...
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theiraqinsider.blogspot.com 11/25/2008 — Yesterday we posted a new analysis of the U.S.-Iraq status of forces agreement on the website. The takeaway, if you don't feel like reading the whole thing (it's kinda long), is that a research and advocacy organization (aka us) that has opposed ...
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