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nytimes.com - 12/14/2008

Bush Arrives in Iraq for a Final Visit

— nytimes.com — BAGHDAD — President Bush flew to Iraq on Sunday, a final trip to highlight the recently completed... security agreement between Iraq and the United States. Air Force One arrived in Baghdad at 4 p.m. after a 10-and-a-half-hour overnight flight from ... (more) Bush Arrives in Iraq for a Final Visit

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online.wsj.com - 12/5/2008

'Muted by Reality'

— 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 ... (more) 'Muted by Reality'

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weeklystandard.com - 12/5/2008

Why Not Baghdad?

— 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 ... (more) Why Not Baghdad?

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Michael Totten: Iraq at the End of the Surge
Victory Caucus -- All Content — ... brother Ahmed Abu Risha said “All the tribes agreed to fight al Qaeda until the last child in Anbar.” How many Americans talk about Al Qaeda like that? Al Qaeda has been by far the most vicious and sadistic terrorist group in Iraq, but there are many other groups still skulking about in reduced numbers – the Mahdi Army “Special Groups,” Hezbollah, Asa'ib Ahl al-Haqq, and some others have been seriously bloodied and weakened, but they still exist. It's a near certainty that there wil read ...

Surging Down
Mudville Gazette — Michael Totten, on Iraq at the end of the surge: Last week I wrote that many Americans and Iraqis I spoke to in Baghdad recently expect a surge of violence after American troops withdraw from Iraqi cities as stipulated by the recently signed Status of Forces Agreement. Many readers seemed surprised by that pessimistic forecast and wondered, after two years of good news, if it could even be true. “Your report and that of Michael Yon,” Richard Everett wrote in the comments section, “published on the same day on the same subject are at so great ...

Mideast News & Views
Jules Crittenden — ... begin implementing the obligations the document entails. Unfortunately, I don’t think Iran will wise up and spare us yet another war in the Gulf. The signs are ominous and there is a striking resemblance between the way Tehran acts today and the way Baghdad did under Saddam. The missile tests, the gloating about military industrial breakthroughs, the work of Quds Forces and yes, talk of annihilating Israel sound all too familiar to me. As we say in Iraq, “I’ve seen this movie before.” Totten in Baghdad : “Iraq at the end of the surge” … fears a new surge when the Americans ...