blogs.abcnews.com - 2/2/2009
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ABC News' Martha Raddatz Reports: The Obama administration has tapped Ambassador Chris Hill, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, to be Ambassador to Iraq. Hill, the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, served as...
huffingtonpost.com - 2/2/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (IPS) - CENTCOM commander Gen.
David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried
to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq ...
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Generals Seek To Reverse Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Decision
guardian.co.uk - 2/3/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
The weekend's elections in Iraq were a huge
success for the Iraqi people. The remarkably peaceful day
of voting on Saturday - and the interim results - give good reason to hope Iraq really is on the way to building a decent society. These provincial ...
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William Shawcross: Democratic dawn in Iraq
commentarymagazine.com - 2/2/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
Results are still being tallied in Iraq’s provincial
election, but preliminary returns, as reported by Dubai’s Al-Sharqiyah
television, sound on the whole like good news from the standpoint of the United States — and bad news from ...
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Encouraging Results in Iraq
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Obama Picks Ambassador to Iraq
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill will take on the job as the U.S.'s top diplomat in Iraq. ...
Chris Hill Named Ambassador To Iraq
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Chris Hill has been named as the next ambassador to Iraq and will oversee a crucial moment for the nascent democracy, following provincial elections this past weekend and more later in the year. As reported by ABC News, "Hill, the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, served as the U.S. Ambassador to Korea from 2004 to 2005. In Feb. 2005, Hill headed the U.S. delegation to the Six-Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue." ...
Chris Hill Named Ambassador To Iraq
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Chris Hill has been named as the next ambassador to Iraq and will oversee a crucial moment for the nascent democracy, following provincial elections this past weekend and more later in the year. As reported by ABC News, "Hill, the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, served as the U.S. Ambassador to Korea from 2004 to 2005. In Feb. 2005, Hill headed the U.S. delegation to the Six-Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue." ...
Remainders: All the way...
Ben Smith's Blog —
Hendrik Hertzberg proves that Obama is Adlai Stevenson reincarnated.
Obama has Daschle's back.
Delegate Guru Jeff Berman heads to Bryan Cave.
Jill Biden is back at work.
The White House begins coordinating with outside liberal groups.
Dodd refinances his houses, with caution this time.
Simon Rosenberg says Steele wasn't the best choice, he was the only choice.
Chris Hill becomes the new ambassador to Iraq.
Ron Sims is named No. 2 at HUD. ...
Obama's Man In Iraq: Wrong For The Job?
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... . Christopher R. Hill, appointed in February, had moved adroitly from the Balkans to negotiations with North Korea before assuming the new post, but Arabs have their own cultural and linguistic mores that preclude diving right in with effectiveness, Kaplan says...and, in that regard, Hill may fall short of his predecessor, the Bush-appointed Ryan Crocker, who is an Arabist by trade. As U.S. troops move out of Iraq, tensions have run high and the situation is sensitive; the U.S. ambassador's ability to broker deals between factions could make the difference between a relatively ...
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whitehouse.gov 1/20/2009 — IRAQ President Obama and Vice President Biden will responsibly end the war in Iraq so that we can renew our military strength, dedicate more resources to the fight against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and invest in our economy at home. The ...
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attackerman.firedoglake.com 2/27/2009 — Update : In a conference call with reporters immediately after President Obama's Iraq-withdrawal speech , Defense Secretary Bob Gates said that the withdrawal plan has the support of key military leaders.
"I'm obviously very supportive of ...
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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 2/27/2009 — Our guest blogger is Peter Juul , Research Associate at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Today, the New York Times reports that President Obama plans to withdraw only two combat brigades from Iraq prior to that country’s next national ...
Anbar Rising
mudvillegazette.com 3/12/2009 — Continuing our sixth anniversary review - this post from early October, 2006 was a compilation and examination of events largely ignored (or simply reported as discrete acts of more or less random violence) at the time in Western media. Many would ultimately come to regard the "Awakening" ...
Down with Barriers, Up with Iraq
michaelyon-online.com 11/25/2008 — On November 13th I covered a mission in south Baghdad with soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division. General Petraeus once told me during the height of the fighting, back when violence was the lingua franca and victory was very much in question, that ...
A New Iraq
mudvillegazette.com 1/9/2009 — A view from two Iraqi brothers, a New Iraq Emerges from Tyranny and War (Excerpt):
The headlines for those cynics do not go beyond the throw of a shoe, whereas my headlines look into the future and speak of a new Iraq. My headlines speak of ...
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/24/2009 — Thomas Ricks worries : It seems to me that by vowing to get out of Iraq in 16 months, President Obama is not departing from the mistakes of George Bush, but repeating them. That is, Bush was persistently overoptimistic about Iraq. His original war ...
Afghan violence spikes —
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From NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube The Pentagon's semi-annual report on Afghanistan which shows a sharp increase violence in Afghanistan will be released at 1 p.m. ET today.
The report primarily covers events through Aug. 28th of ...
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