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Bobby Ghosh: Five Reasons for Hope in Iraq (www.time.com)

Over the past four-some years, I've always relied on some personal litmus tests to gauge the mood of this city. And by those admittedly unscientific measures, Baghdad feels like it's starting to... More

Tags: iraq,baghdad,security,surge,sunnis,shiites

Submitted 2 days ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |

UN Pick Rice: Another Wrong-on-Iraq Nominee (www.thenation.com) TMC

On the outside chance that anyone thought that Dr. Susan Rice might be the exception to the rule of wrong-thinking that characterizes Barack Obama's foreign-policy team, well, think again. Obama's... More

Tags: tmc,the nation,susan rice,iraq,iraq war,united nations,cabinet,presidentelect barack obama,us ambassador to the united nations

Submitted 2 days ago by robertharding on Cabinet | 0 Comments |

UN Expresses Concern Over Treatment of Iraqi Detainees as US Plans to Hand Over Control (www.talkingpointsmemo.com)

The U.N. mission in Iraq expressed "serious concern" Tuesday about overcrowded prisons and the treatment of detainees in Iraqi custody in its latest report on the human rights situation in the... More

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Submitted 2 days ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |

Interrogator who Located Zarqawi Rips U.S. Torture Policy (www.vetvoice.com)

Matthew Alexander, the military officer and interrogator responsible for obtaining the information that led to the death of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2006, has just published in the Washington... More

Tags: iraq,torture,war crimes,zarqawi,us military

Submitted 2 days ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |

About that Timeline. . . . (www.vetvoice.com)

Remember when the Bush Administration fought like a cornered wolverine against anything remotely resembling a timeline for withdrawal in Iraq? Remember all that talk about "surrendering" and how a... More

Tags: iraq,occupation,withdrawal,pentagon,obama,bush,politics

Submitted 2 days ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |

U.S. Combat Casualties in Iraq Fall to New Low in November (www.cnsnews.com)

Five combat deaths have been reported for November so far, the lowest total of any month going back to beginning of the war in March 2003.

Tags: iraq,us military,casualties

Submitted 2 days ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |

Big News Orgs Help Bush Whitewash History Of Iraq War (tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

This really isn't complicated. President Bush was not being "blunt" or showing "candor" when he told ABC News in an interview published yesterday that his biggest regret was the failure of... More

Tags: tmc,talking points memo,president george w bush,history,iraq,iraq war,media,journalism

Submitted 2 days ago by robertharding on Iraq | 0 Comments |

Air National Guard Unit Going Back To Iraq (www.courant.com)

The Connecticut Air National Guard's 103rd Air Control Squadron has been mobilized for service in Iraq. About 50 members of the Orange-based unit are to be honored today at 5 p.m. at a send-off... More

Tags: connecticut,air national guard,connecticut air national guard,deployments,iraq,iraq war

Submitted 2 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |

NC National Guard Units Hold Deployment Ceremonies (johnston.mync.com)

The North Carolina National Guard held a ceremony in Smithfield Monday morning for about 100 men and women in the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, which will deploy to Iraq in the spring. The... More

Tags: north carolina,national guard,north carolina national guard,30th heavy brigade combat team,deployments,iraq,iraq war,fort bragg

Submitted 2 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |

Obama's UN Envoy Got Iraq War Wrong (www.thenation.com)

Obama's nominee to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Dr. Susan Rice, in February 2003 believed in the supposed threat posed by those Iraqi imaginary weapons of mass destruction.

Tags: iraq,un,obama,politics,susan rice

Submitted 2 days ago by rmwarnick on Iraq | 0 Comments |

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