africa.reuters.com - 1/3/2009
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By Khalid al-Ansary BAGHDAD, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an "utter failure" that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country. In an interview published on Saturday in the ...
reuters.com - 1/3/2009
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister
Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George...
W. Bush as an "utter failure" that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country. In an interview published on ...
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U.S.-installed Iraqi ex-PM says Bush utter ...
nytimes.com - 12/29/2008
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nytimes.com —
Quietly, as the United States presidential election and
its aftermath have dominated the news, America’s three broadcast...
network news divisions have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq. “The war has gone on longer than a lot of news ...
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TV News Winds Down Iraq Operations
openleft.com - 1/4/2009
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openleft.com —
After the Iraq fiasco, the key to continuing
neocon power was two-fold: First, disappearing the disaster. Second...
disappearing the neocons themselves. The disaster was disappeared by a series of rationalizations and redefinitions, the most ...
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Hegemony On Steroids--"The Neocons Couldn't A Dunnit!", ...
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US-installed Iraqi ex-PM says Bush "utter failure"
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... Allawi ruled Iraq for almost a year after U.S. occupation officials handed power to him in 2004 as prime minister of an interim government. He was selected by a council hand-picked by Washington after the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. "Yes, Bush's policies failed utterly," said Allawi, describing the U.S. administration that once backed him. "Utter failure. Failure of U.S. domestic and foreign policy, including fighting terrorism and economic policy." Read more: http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL3462480.html?rp...
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From Reuters: BAGHDAD, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an "utter failure" that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country. In an interview published on Saturday in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, Allawi found fault with American management of Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 as well as the government of present Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Allawi ruled Iraq for almost a year after U.S. occupation officials ...
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