weeklystandard.com - 12/6/2008
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For the past year, we've been inundated with news of radical Iraqi cleric Muqtada al Sadr's power and influence. Last year, the American Spectator 's George H. Wittman asked if Sadr was a kingmaker or a king . This spring, just days after the fighting in Basrah began, Time magazine's Charles ...
online.wsj.com - 12/5/2008
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online.wsj.com —
JAMES TARANTO Barack Obama was elected president a
month ago and does not take office for another...
6 weeks. But his most fervent supporters already have reason to be disappointed in him. Witness the headline of a "news analysis" in today's New York ...
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'Muted by Reality'
weeklystandard.com - 12/5/2008
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weeklystandard.com —
Word on the street is Obama will head
to an Arab capital for a major speech in...
his first 100 days. I doubt anyone in the United States will care much one way or the other, preoccupied as we are by our own economic problems, but that's not to say such ...
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Why Not Baghdad?
washingtonpost.com - 12/5/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, December 5, 2008;
A01 BAGHDAD -- The followers of Shiite Muslim cleric...
Moqtada al-Sadr once were powerful enough to do battle against the U.S. military , play kingmaker in choosing Iraq's prime minister and ...
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Sadr Movement Seeks Its Way As Others Gain Power in Iraq
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Water for Sadr
Mudville Gazette —
Bill Roggio on How The Mighty Sadr Has Fallen. How quickly the narrative on Sadr has changed. Today, the Washington Post describes a weakened Sadr, with a near-toothless political movement, struggling to find its path after suffering a stinging defeat after the passage of the Status of Forces agreement between the United States and Iraq.I believe we've discussed previously how the western media have carried water for Sadr for some time. After four years of war, 3,200 American deaths, 23,000 U.S. troops wounded and possibly ...
Neocons Still Misunderstanding Iran’s Role In Iraq
Wonk Room —
... the most determined Iranian opposition.
Eli Lake:
What the [status of forces agreement] does…is establish the political legitimacy of American troops in Iraq for the next three years and provides a framework beyond that. It is perhaps for this reason that the remnants of Moqtada Al Sadr’s organization have protested the agreement, as have more and more of the hard-line clerics in Iran.
Bill Roggio:
How quickly the narrative on Sadr has changed. Today, the ...
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mudvillegazette.com 1/12/2009 — Third in a series, previous entry here .
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mudvillegazette.com 12/1/2008 — Heh .
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What’s Next in Iraq
commentarymagazine.com 12/1/2008 — BAGHDAD – For the past two weeks I’ve been embedded with the United States Army in Baghdad, and I find myself unable to figure out what to make of this place. Baghdad, despite the remarkable success of the surge, is as mind-bogglingly run-down ...
I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq
washingtonpost.com 12/1/2008 — Sunday, November 30, 2008; B01 I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the most notorious mass murderers of our ...
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