themoderatevoice.com - 10/20/2009
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One doesn’t normally expect to find articles of an inspirational nature in an in-flight magazine.
On a flight yesterday, I started my perfunctory flipping of pages of the “American Way” magazine, and there, tucked among descriptions of alluring vacation paradises, interesting travelogues and ...
Back to Iraq
mudvillegazette.com 10/9/2009 — The Third Infantry Division, the Ft Stewart, Georgia based U.S. Army division that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime with the "Thunder Run" in 2003, returned to Iraq in 2005 and again during "the surge" in 2007 is now beginning its historic fourth deployment to Iraq. "Division Commander Major ...
The war the times forgot
mudvillegazette.com 9/29/2009 — John Burns, on Iraq : "As for where the balance lies in all this -- whether it has in any sense been worth it -- that's an issue for history..." And that is certainly true. Somewhere in that history should be an acknowledgment of Burns' contribution to its documentation.
There are lessons ...
The last of the few: the Marines leave Iraq
mudvillegazette.com 10/1/2009 — Looks like America's 1st Sgt. at Castra Praetoria (greast posts there - go check 'em out!) might have the honor of being of being the last Marine milblogger from Iraq . Here's why...
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Six-year Legacy of Marine Corps Regiments in Iraq Followed by an Army Brigade Story by Cpl. Meg ...
US To Stay in Iraq At Least 10 More Years, Says Army
afterdowningstreet.org 9/1/2009 — WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday. Gen. ...
Make Walls, Not War
nytimes.com 23 days ago — Townshend, Vt. IN a surge of realism, the Senate has voted 75-23 to acknowledge that Iraq has broken up and cannot be put back together. The measure, co-sponsored by Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, and Sam Brownback, Republican of ...
Army News, news from Iraq,
armytimes.com 10/19/2009 — April 28, 2006 SpecOps unit nearly nabs Zarqawi By Sean D. Naylor Times staff writer Just nine days before al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi released his latest video, a special operations raid killed five of his men, captured five others ...
White House Heralds Iraq Election Law
blogs.abcnews.com 27 days ago — Calling it a "significant breakthrough," President Obama praised the vote by Iraq's Council of Representatives allowing for parliamentary elections in January 2010 calling it "an important milestone as the Iraqi people continue to take responsibility ...
The Denial Continues, and the Horror Remains Unrecognized
powerofnarrative.blogspot.com 10/29/2009 — As soon as I read this Washington Post story about the resignation of Matthew Hoh, I knew I would write this article. The story is significant not only in itself, but also in the altogether predictable reaction it would elicit, particularly from those ...
Correcting George Will on Iraq -- By: NRO Staff
corner.nationalreview.com 9/9/2009 — In his latest column , about Iraq, George Will writes:
“More than 725 Iraqis have been killed by terrorism since the June 30 pullback of U.S. forces from the cities.”
That’s an annual death rate, on the Iraqi population of 28 million, of ...