commentarymagazine.com - 12/9/2008
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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, ...
nytimes.com - 12/14/2008
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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 ...
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Bush Arrives in Iraq for a Final Visit
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?
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Iraq at the End of the Surge
Winds of Change.NET —
... less concern for human rights than Americans. I wouldn't decribe that as encouraging, exactly, considering what Iraq looked like when it was ruled that way in the past. But at least we no longer have to worry overly much about Al Qaeda seizing power as Hamas did in Gaza after the Israel Defense Forces left. Al Qaeda doesn't have even a fraction of Hamas' popularity, and the Iraqi Army, unlike the Palestinian security forces, have been trained for years by American soldiers.
Read the rest in Commentary Magazine.
MICHAEL TOTTEN: Iraq At The End Of The Surge….
Instapundit —
MICHAEL TOTTEN: Iraq At The End Of The Surge.
AintNoBadDude —
Totten on Iraq and the Surge Go read Michael Totten on the subject of the end of the Surge.
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