washingtonpost.com - 12/5/2008
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Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, December 5, 2008; A01 BAGHDAD -- The followers of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr once were powerful enough to do battle against the U.S. military , play kingmaker in choosing Iraq's prime minister and declare themselves the true defenders of the ...
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?
juancole.com - 12/7/2008
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juancole.com —
Barack Obama will put forward retired Gen. Eric
Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs in his cabinet....
. WaPo quoted me: 'Juan Cole, a University of Michigan history professor who writes about the Iraq war and Islam, called Shinseki's ...
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Obama Taps Shinseki for Veterans Affairs; Ironies Abound
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How The Mighty Sadr Has Fallen
Weekly Standard Blog —
... How quickly the narrative on Sadr has changed. Today, the Washington Post describes a weakened Sadr, with a near-toothless political movement, struggling to find its path after suffering a stinging defeat after the passage of the Status of Forces agreement between the United States and Iraq. ...
Sadr fades into irrelevance
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... We couldn’t (or wouldn’t) kill him when he tried to go to war against our military, but Moqtada al-Sadr has all but managed to commit political suicide. At one time, Sadr commanded tens of thousands of militia members and played kingmaker in national politics. Now the movement has all but faded as Sadr marginalized himself through a monumental political miscalculation last year, but a small coterie of Sadrists still haven’t quite realized that they’ve lost: The followers of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr once were powerful enough to do battle against the U.S. ...
Neocons Still Misunderstanding Iran’s Role In Iraq
Wonk Room —
... How quickly the narrative on Sadr has changed. Today, the Washington Post describes a weakened Sadr, with a near-toothless political movement, struggling to find its path after suffering a stinging defeat after the passage of the Status of Forces agreement between the United States and Iraq. ...
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