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 and dysfunctional as ever, even compared ...
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 ...
washingtonpost.com - 12/1/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Sunday, November 30, 2008; B01 I should have
felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August
2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the most notorious mass murderers of our ...
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I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq
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What's Next in Iraq
Winds of Change.NET —
... who think the job should only require a few more years are still pessimistic about what they think is likely to happen when the negotiated Status of Forces Agreement goes into effect and American troops withdraw from Iraqi cities in 2009. “We’ve seen hell,” an Iraqi intelligence source said when I met him in his house. “And that hell, if the American forces evacuate, will repeat. If Obama forces an evacuation from Iraq soon, everything will turn against him in this land.”
Read the rest in COMMENTARY.
Whee
Belmont Club —
Michael Totten looks ahead in Iraq. He reports that some people believe that Iraqi civil society is still on training wheels and that when the US leaves or withdraws into its enclaves, all the old bad habits will re-emerge. Iraqis who think the job should only require a few more years are still pessimistic about what they think is likely to happen when the negotiated Status of Forces Agreement goes into effect and American troops withdraw from Iraqi cities in 2009. “We’ve seen hell,” an Iraqi intelligence source said when I met him in his house. “And that hell, if the American ...
Good enough
Belmont Club —
Michael Totten looks ahead in Iraq. He reports that some people believe that Iraqi civil society is still on training wheels and that when the US leaves or withdraws into its enclaves, all the old bad habits will re-emerge. Iraqis who think the job should only require a few more years are still pessimistic about what they think is likely to happen when the negotiated Status of Forces Agreement goes into effect and American troops withdraw from Iraqi cities in 2009. “We’ve seen hell,” an Iraqi intelligence source said when I met him in his house. “And that hell, if the American ...
Heart of Darkness
Mudville Gazette —
... I'm working on a long dispatch from the Sadr City area. Here is a short piece in COMMENTARY to hold you over in the meantime. Thank you for being patient. Everything, including writing and publishing, is a gigantic hassle in Iraq. ...
Raining on the victory parade
Cold Fury —
Michael Totten offers up a less-than-rosy assessment : 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 and dysfunctional as ever, even compared with other Arabic countries. Iraq is a dark place. At times it feels like a doomed country that has only been temporarily spared the reckoning that is coming. Other times it is possible to look past the grimness and see progress beyond the mere ...
In the Middle of a Perilous Peace
Flopping Aces —
... , while noting that “pessimists have been losing the argument in Iraq ever since General David Petraeus radically transformed the American counterinsurgency strategy”. Recently, he made a return to Baghdad, and has a more somber view, which includes the need to insure that Iraq remains on the right course, by keeping an American footprint in Iraq ...
Iraq at the End of the Surge
Winds of Change.NET —
... Last week I wrote that many Americans and Iraqis I spoke to in Baghdad recently expect a surge of violence after American troops withdraw from Iraqi cities as stipulated by the recently signed Status of Forces Agreement. Many readers seemed surprised by that pessimistic forecast and wondered, after two years of good news, if it could even be true. “Your report and that of Michael Yon,” Richard Everett wrote ...
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confederateyankee.mu.nu 11/25/2008 — The Iraq Wars are over, and we have won. Let me say that again. WE HAVE WON THE IRAQ WARS. And yes, I do mean to use the plural, as we have, along with our allies, won three intertwined...
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 ...
Re-Arming Iraq
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 1/15/2009 — Our guest blogger is Peter Juul , a Research Associate at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
In 2008, the Iraqi government went on a military spending spree, signaling its intent to buy large quantities of advanced weapons from the ...
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 ...
Anbar Rising
mudvillegazette.com 3/12/2009 — 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" ...
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 ...
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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