nytimes.com - 12/1/2008
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Here’s a story you don’t see very often. Iraq’s highest court told the Iraqi Parliament last Monday that it had no right to strip one of its members of immunity so he could be prosecuted for an alleged crime: visiting Israel for a seminar on counterterrorism. The Iraqi justices said the Sunni ...
confederateyankee.mu.nu - 11/30/2008
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confederateyankee.mu.nu —
Barack Obama and his Democratic allies have famously
done everything in their power to try to lose
the Iraqi War while President Bush is in office, but now that everyone with any understanding of the conflict knows that the war...
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NY Times Scurrying To Give Obama Victory Credit For ...
michaelyon-online.com - 12/1/2008
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The Art of the End of War
Published: 01 December 2008 Zabul Province, Afghanistan (Travel from
Iraq to Afghanistan, and needless bureaucratic delays, nearly killed this dispatch. Though many photos were made during the recent journey in ...
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The Art of the End of War
commentarymagazine.com - 12/1/2008
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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 ...
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What’s Next in Iraq
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As Expected, the New York Times Tries to Give Obama and Liberals Credit for Iraq Success
Wizbang —
As far as the folks at the New York Times are concerned, the success in Iraq is due to the efforts of Barack Obama and the liberals, at least that's what they are arguing. Take a look at Thomas Friedman's opinion piece ...
Iraq: An Obama "victory"?
QandO —
... Other than oppose the war every step of the way, he won’t have to say or do anything as it pertains to Iraq (just let the plan agreed upon be executed) and Friedman is willing to hand Obama the credit for success in that country. ...
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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 12/30/2008 — Of the various premises on which the U.S. invasion of Iraq was sold to the American people, one of the most bizarre was that a post-Saddam Iraqi government would be friendly to Israel . As with claims about WMD and Al Qaeda connections, this one has ...
Bush Visits Iraq For Final Time
huffingtonpost.com 12/14/2008 — BAGHDAD — President George W. Bush on Sunday made a farewell visit to Iraq, a place that defines his presidency, just 37 days before he hands the war off to a successor who has pledged to end it.
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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 ...
How Obama Won Iraq
mudvillegazette.com 12/1/2008 — Heh .
It might be helpful for folks to understand that there were always at least two Iraq wars - one, a military conflict in Iraq and two, a political pissfest in Washington. The U.S. military won one of them in 2007; the Democrats won the other ...
Iraqi Parliament: Troops out in 3 years
swamppolitics.com 11/28/2008 — by Mark Silva
That light at the end of the tunnel you see just might be the end of active U.S. military involvement in Iraq.
One way or another: President-elect Barack Obama has promised to withdraw combat forces within 16 months of taking ...
Victory in Iraq
becausenooneasked.wordpress.com 11/18/2008 — I was wrong in recent assessment of a timetable to leave Iraq . I still don’t see how it can be smart to publicize when you’re leaving a place where you have armed enemies. Of course, the troops will leave at some point before then, not on that ...
Iraq
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 ...
Bush calls flawed Iraq intelligence biggest regret —
Reuters: Politics 12/1/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said the biggest regret of his presidency was flawed intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and told ABC "World News" in an interview airing on Monday that he was unprepared for war when ...
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