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New evidence suggests Ron Suskind is right »
Posted by: berkeley 3 months, 1 week ago in News
That story begins during the final weeks of 2003, when everyone in the White House was suffering severe embarrassment over both the origins and the ...
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US jail guards in Iraq abuse case »
Posted by: tehranchik 3 months ago in News
Six US sailors working as prison camp guards in Iraq face courts martial for abusing detainees, the US Navy says.
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What's Past is Prologue: The War Will Go On »
Posted by: populist 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The war is not limited to Iraq. The Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, in March of 2003, was preceded by their invasion of Afghanistan ...
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Groups decry Defense Department ‘betrayal’ of vets »
Posted by: bubba2 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
In a letter going out to members of Congress, the directors of 2 major veterans' groups say the Pentagon has intentionally withheld benefits from wounded ...
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AP on Iraq: News Reports or Editorials? »
Posted by: populist 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
Is it just a coincidence that the more difficult the facts are for U.S. officials to concede, the less likely they are to be ...
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Blackwater Machine Gun Found in Raid on Iraqi Insurgents »
Posted by: TimALoftis 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
An M4 machine gun sent to Iraq by the Blackwater private security firm somehow disappeared from the company's storage facility in Baghdad and was ...
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IRAQ: U.S. Urged to Share More of Refugee Burden »
Posted by: ameliog 1 month, 1 week ago in News
Despite a marked increase in the number of Iraqi refugees admitted into the United States, experts on Iraq and human rights and refugee organisations are ...
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The War in Iraq Is Over. What Next? - WSJ.com »
Posted by: pc25 3 months, 1 week ago in News
The war I witnessed for more than five years in Iraq is over. In July, there were five American fatalities in Iraq, the lowest since ...
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Biden: Petraeus Dead Flat Wrong on Iraq »
Posted by: pc25 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
MR. RUSSERT: Joe Biden, welcome back. Welcome back from Iraq. What did you see, hear, learn?
SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN (D-DE): Well, what I saw, heard ... -
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Waging an Internal war »
Posted by: bubba2 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The Army's suicide rate is at a high, and kin say that multiple deployments are to blame. Some troops with mental illnesses are cleared ...
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Assessing the Iraq Troop 'Surge' »
Posted by: populist 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
But there is a more subtle question that the U.S. press corps doesn’t seem capable of addressing: whether George W. Bush’s “surge ...
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U.S. military: Iran training assassination squads »
Posted by: monte-g 3 months ago in News
Iraqi Shia fighters are now been trained inside Iran as assassination squads, the U.S. military has told the Iraqi government.
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The Arabs and the U.S. Financial Crunch »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
"We in Egypt are paying an exorbitant price today," said an editorial in the Egyptian Al-Ahram weekly. "It is time to free ourselves from the ...
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Bombs near Shiite mosques in Baghdad kill 19 »
Posted by: splitrch 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
In a separate attack, gunmen fatally shot six people as they traveled in a minibus in Wajihiyah, a town 60 miles north of Baghdad in ...
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Despite U.S. Threats, Iraq Won't Let Up on Security Pact »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 weeks, 6 days ago in Politics
AMMAN – Even as Iraqi forces take over security of one more province from U.S. troops, Baghdad is still attempting to negotiate a controversial security ...
