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mudvillegazette.com - 3/12/2009
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Continuing our sixth anniversary review - this post
from early October, 2006 was a compilation and examination...
of events largely ignored (or simply reported as discrete acts of more or less random violence) at the time in Western media. Many would ultimately come to regard the "Awakening" ...
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Anbar Rising
pr.thinkprogress.org - 3/19/2009
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IRAQ Six Years Of War In Iraq Six
years to the day have passed since President Bush...
launched the invasion of Iraq, a preventative war of choice based on "intelligence fixed around the policy ." The purpose, according to Bush, was " to disarm Iraq , ...
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Iraq -- Six Years Of War In Iraq
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Six Years
Talking Points Memo —
... We've got new crises to worry about, it seems. But today is the sixth anniversary of the Iraq War. And we're commemorating the day with a photographic timeline of the war, from day one until today. Take a look. The images will bring you back. ...
6 years later....
skippy the bush kangaroo —
and the water still isn't drinkable in baghdad. baghdad's water still undrinkable 6 years after invasion. ihsan jaafar, iraq's director of public health, said the water had been bad for years, but that it now carried cholera, typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis and other diseases. - mcclatchy newspapers.yep. we've been in iraq 6 years. ...
6 Years of Iraq War Photos
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... , was the 6th anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq. That we’re still there after so many years is remarkable — depending on who’s counting, it’s the second longest war in American history — but the number 6 isn’t one we pay much attention to. We like round numbers and multiples of 5. Anyway, TPM has created an interesting photo gallery (”6 Years in Iraq: A Timeline in Images”) commemorating the milestones of our involvement there with images. They’re worth a look. In the early going, it sure looked like these would be the iconic photographs: ...
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This Week in Iraq War History
mudvillegazette.com 3/19/2009 — A previous entry in this series here .
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Events of March 14-21, 1999: Unacknowledged in the United States, the war in Iraq continued.
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14 March, 1999 , CENTCOM: COALITION AIRCRAFT RESPOND TO SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE FIRE
MACDILL AFB, FL – At approximately 2:15 a.m. ...
The Anniversary Party
attackerman.firedoglake.com 3/19/2009 —
photo by jamesdale10
It's eerie and uncomfortable and inappropriate that there isn't much notice that six years ago today the U.S. invaded Iraq. Maybe that's natural now that the Obama administration is ending the war. Maybe it's an indication ...
Sons and Guns and Money
mudvillegazette.com 4/1/2009 — The New York Times, March 31 : BAGHDAD — Iraqi and American soldiers have completely disarmed a rebellious Awakening Council that staged a brief uprising after its leader was arrested in a Baghdad neighborhood, and they are not going to allow it to re-form, both Iraqi and United States ...
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 ...
The Beginning of the End? Obama, Gates Outline Iraq Drawdown
attackerman.firedoglake.com 2/27/2009 — Update : In a conference call with reporters immediately after President Obama's Iraq-withdrawal speech , Defense Secretary Bob Gates said that the withdrawal plan has the support of key military leaders.
"I'm obviously very supportive of ...
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 ...
Changes
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 ...
Jeremy Scahill: Obama's Iraq: All Troops Out By 2011? Not So Fast
huffingtonpost.com 3/2/2009 —
Originally posted at AlterNet
Some anti-war analysts find hope in President Barack Obama's address at Camp Lejuene in North Carolina on Friday, in which he appeared to spell out a clear date for withdrawal from Iraq.
"I intend to remove ...
A beginner's guide to getting your surge on
mudvillegazette.com 3/16/2009 — Continuing the Mudville sixth anniversary retrospective - this January, 2007 entry detailed "the surge". Oddly enough, among the spate of recent books on the topic none have addressed what Mudville readers knew two years ago...
Or: " How to stop choosing the wrong damn side in this war "
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