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Join the forum discussion on this postThe Big Questions About Iraq
By PATRICK COCKBURN
Will Iraq disintegrate if the United States withdraws its combat troops?
The US and Iraq are close to agreeing a security accord under which the US would pull its combat troops out of Iraqi cities, towns and villages on June 30, 2009 [...]

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Join the forum discussion on this postby Patrick J. Buchanan
originally published August 15, 2008 by humanevents.com
Mikheil Saakashvili’s decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover Georgia’s invasion of its breakaway province of South Ossetia must rank in stupidity with Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s decision to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships.
Nasser’s [...]

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Embedded in Iraq
By Michael Massing

"Embedded in Iraq", the title of Michael Massing’s article in the current issue of the New York Review of Books in the New York Review of Books, has a surprising double entendre. He concludes:

Iranian hegemony over Iraq: that is the Bush administration’s [...]

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Join the forum discussion on this post By Kenneth B Finch
May 21, 2007 (Added Footnotes, slight edits 3/24/08)
Calling the Bush Political Machine “the Bush illicit gang” can seem inflammatory, particularly without a clear understanding of the machine’s organization, and its goals and its structure. Clearly most people who have in [...]

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Le Monde Diplomatique
Global confidence in the US economy has reached zero, as was proved by last
month’s stock market meltdown. But there is an enormous anomaly in the US
economy above and beyond the subprime mortgage crisis, the housing bubble
and the prospect of recession: 60 years of misallocation of resources, and
borrowings, to the establishment and maintenance of [...]

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Amman, Jordan,
November 25, 2007
Recent media reports depict large numbers of Iraqis returning to their country. “Thousands of Iraqis living in Syria have headed back home in the past weeks.” (Jordan Times, Feb. 23,2007) Some reports attribute this to improved security in Iraq. While the death rate and incidence [...]

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Dear Democrat,
The Senate is now poised to approve the nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general. Late today, Schumer and Feinstein came out in his support, thereby assuring a majority vote for confirmation on the floor. Once again the Democrats have become the Bush enablers and have abandoned the bulk of the Democratic rank and [...]

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THE ROVING EYE
Behind the Anbar myth
By Pepe Escobar
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Way beyond any “success” claimed by Petraeus, what’s happening in Anbar is once again a replay of what happened in eastern Afghanistan in 2001. Local tribes profit from US largesse - and weapons - and then proceed with their own tribal and/or nationalist agenda. What matters for [...]

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Go to original article on IVAW website.
It seems that in all measurable aspects, the troop surge has failed. Despite what general Petraeus said before Congress, numerous preliminary reports outline what is clearly a failure in this surge strategy. Casualties, both US and Iraqi have exceeded the numbers from last year for every month in 2007. [...]

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When protesters interrupted the hearing, Mr. Skelton ordered them removed from the room, which is understandable. But then he said that they would be prosecuted. That seemed like an unnecessarily authoritarian response to people who just wanted to be heard.

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