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Whoops! There Goes McCain’s Iraq Strategy
crooksandliars.com - 8/22/2008
Whoops! There Goes McCain’s Iraq Strategy
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The WSJ says Maliki and Bush are about to agree a timetable that agrees with Obama’s timetable . Even “Saint Pet” Petraeus says the Sunni Awakening is at least as responsible as any other cause for the reduction of violence in Iraq -now Maliki’s people say they’re ready to throw the Awakening under the reconcilliation bus and declare it illegal - ...

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Newshoggers.com:  Obama, McCain And The Iraq Deal

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Obama, McCain And The Iraq Deal
Newshoggers.com — ... I've a couple of posts over at Crooks and Liars today on the impending Iraq deal, mutterings of an Awakening revolt, McCain's need to do a swift 180 and ...

So, what does "fragile" mean?
Newshoggers.com — ... sit idly by while a Kurdish independent state was formed. - Also in the North, in the Sunni city of Mosul, violence is rising again. The number of attacks had fallen from 130 a week to 30 a week in July. But today they are back up to between 60 and 70 a week. The reason is simple - Maliki's Shiite majority are cracking down on other Sunni dissenters under the guise of hunting Al Qaeda. - Across Sunni regions, there's a growing storm of discontent among members of the Awakening. The US says there are 100,000 Sons of iraq but the Iraqi government ...

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