nytimes.com - 2/3/2009
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Iraqis went to the polls for the fourth time, with elections in 14 of the country’s 18 provinces. Three Iraqi bloggers share their impressions of the day. >
huffingtonpost.com - 2/2/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (IPS) - CENTCOM commander Gen.
David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried...
to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq ...
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Generals Seek To Reverse Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Decision
guardian.co.uk - 2/3/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
The weekend's elections in Iraq were a huge
success for the Iraqi people. The remarkably peaceful day...
of voting on Saturday - and the interim results - give good reason to hope Iraq really is on the way to building a decent society. These provincial ...
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William Shawcross: Democratic dawn in Iraq
blogs.abcnews.com - 2/2/2009
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ABC News' Martha Raddatz Reports: The Obama administration
has tapped Ambassador Chris Hill, a career member of...
the Senior Foreign Service, to be Ambassador to Iraq. Hill, the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, served as...
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Chris Hill Tapped as Ambassador to Iraq
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos —
... Bob Herbert wonders: ... what it will take to get this country serious about repairing and rebuilding its crumbling and increasingly obsolete infrastructure. [...] We’re suffering now from both a failure of will and of imagination. I remember the financier Felix Rohatyn telling me, “A modern economy needs a modern platform, and that’s the infrastructure.” History tells us the same thing. Three Iraqi bloggers give their thoughts on the recent elections in Iraq. ...
The WonkLine: February 3, 2009
Wonk Room —
... On Monday night Iran launched its first domestically-made satellite into orbit. “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the satellite was launched to spread ‘monotheism, peace and justice’ in the world.”
The LA Times reports that President Obama’s appointment of Richard “the Bulldozer” Holbrooke as Afghanistan-Pakistan envoy has unnerved some South Asian leaders.
The New York Times asked three Iraqi bloggers for their views of Saturday’s provincial elections. ...
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Iraq 2009 Elections Updates
mudvillegazette.com 2/1/2009 — Peace, high turnout reported at Iraq polls -(CNN) Half of Iraq's eligible voters turned out for peaceful provincial elections this weekend, the election commission said Sunday.
An Iraqi man whose finger has been ink stained after voting makes a ...
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mudvillegazette.com 1/20/2009 — This week in the history of the Iraq war :
January 13, 1993: With Iraqi missile sites still operational south of the 32d parallel, and Iraqi troops making repeated forays across the newly demarcated border with Kuwait, President Bush orders ...
More Free Elections in Iraq
wizbangblog.com 1/31/2009 — If you want a sign of just how successful we have been in Iraq, note the little attention this story is getting. Iraqis are electing new provincial councils in the...
Democracy in Iraq: Into the fray!
tigerhawk.blogspot.com 1/11/2009 — It certainly looks as though people are getting into the swing of democracy in Iraq: This sounds like an American city in the 19th century:
As Iraq nears its provincial elections day, Jan. 31, residents are faced with ballots that could make even a ...
Victory In Iraq - Democracy Flourishes
strata-sphere.com 1/31/2009 — Major Update: From a tip I saw over at Black Five, this election is more historic than I first thought. The al Qaeda version of Islam designates women as property which can be stoned for transgressing strict male rules. In Iraq's version of Islam ...
The Next Steps To Get Out Of Iraq
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 2/27/2009 — Our guest blogger is Peter Juul , Research Associate at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Today, the New York Times reports that President Obama plans to withdraw only two combat brigades from Iraq prior to that country’s next national ...
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 ...
What, Indeed, Did We Win?
cheatseekingmissiles.com 1/31/2009 — A s I mentioned yesterday , liberal blogger Dan Chmielewski and I have been in a “wall war” on facebook over Gitmo and, with his last post, the whole raison d’etra of the Iran war. Chmielewski posed a two-parter: You didn’t answer the question Laer; ...
Ross to State; Hill Amb. to Iraq —
First Read 2/2/2009
From NBC's Andrea Mitchell and Libby Leist Despite some delays -- and considerable debate in the media over his area of responsibility -- longtime Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross will be coming back to the State Department as ...
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