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Iraqi Cleric Quietly Approving Fatwas Against American Troops

This isn't just any Cleric. This is the big cheese, the guy we needed to keep from stirring up Iraqis. So far the fatwas have been small in number   

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Iraqi Women Ask "What is Freedom Without Security?"

See NYT -- Baghdad Buereau: "Answers From Iraqi Women "Thank you Senator Clinton, for the Iraq War.  We're all enjoying it soooo much. 

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Secret Deal Being Worked Between Iraq Government and Bush Administration For...

Exerpt UK Independent "Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control "A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless...

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US: No Secret Deal With Iraq

Reuters and other news media report that the US really doesn't have a secret deal with Iraqis.Thank goodness they cleared that up.Reuters (please don't shell us again) dutifully reports in "No secret...

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Presidential Hopeful John McCain Promises Us More Wars

Yes, with President McCain we will have more wars, and more wars, and more wars. There are lots of resources in other lands to which industries want cheaper access.

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Our Faux Chechnyan Spring Not Working Out So Well In Baghdad. Four Americans...

Our neo Stalinism in Baghdad isn't having the happy effect as the Bush administration as hoped.Dammit we bombed families into oblivion in Sadr city.  Why aren't they pacified?Maybe they should call up...

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Hunt Oil Got Insider Information on oil deal in Iraq (and may have gotten...

An oil deal that flew in the face of stated Bush and al Maliki administration goals was crafted between Texas company Hunt Oil and the leadership of Kurdistan (oops, the Kurdish part of Iraq, of...

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How to Show Charles Krauthammer Up As A Hyprocrite (Updated with new link)

I might have been feeling a little guilty after reading Mr. K's latest column.I don't like war.  I know people on both sides of the isle (proverbally, not really anyone in Congress) who just hate war,...

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Facts To Remember About The "Kidnapped" Soldiers

I feel sorry for the families of the soldiers whose bodies were found and identified this week.  One report headlined "closure" for them, but that's ridiculous.  There is no closure when a family...

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If Barack Obama is Supposedly Inexperienced in the Art of Leading the Free...

The Bush administration is finally beginning to wise up about some of their war and foreign policy.They are sending troops (in planes) or munitions over the border into Pakistan after high value...

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Iraq Prime Minister Tells German Magazine He Backs Obama's Exit Plan

When Mr. Maliki announced he wanted troops out the Bush administration made up a lot of stories about what he meant and as usual mainstream news went along with the Bush people repeating their...

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LA Times: Iraq is ,More Peaceful As Long as Iraqis Stay Walled In Their...

Yes, Iraqis can walk around outside their homes and have almost  semblance of peace as long as they stay in their segregated neighborhoods (surrounded with immense blast walls).That's John McCain's...

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This'll Go Over Big. Shiites Are Breaking Up the Sunni Militias That Have...

And remember this has been going on since Spring without our knowledge.  Yet they pretend that we are getting accurate knowledge about how Iraq is more peaceful now.I figure the blowback is already...

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In Memoriam: Nisour Square Massacre September 16, 2007

Blackwater BurkaSculpture seems to illustrate how fear of instant death keeps Iraqis in submission  Picture allowed via CC License (attribution). Thanks to "jmccuistion" at flickr.com (endorsement of...

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Coming NIE To Show that Surge Didn't Really Work. Who's Going to Tell McCain?

The purpose of the surge was to reduce violence in Baghdad.  Other reports have shown that much of that had occured through sectarian division and the Sunni Awakening.  But still the reduction of...

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US Troops Strike Inside Syria

Attempting to cut off a route of insurgents into Iraq, the US military has struck within the borders of Syria according to press reports.The area is across the border from Qaim a city captured by...

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Iraq's Cabinet Approves Security Pact

After the election, you may remember, the Iraqis indicated they felt better about facing a future dealing with a US government they felt they could trust, and apparently the cabinet felt they could...

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Israeli Writer: This War is Child's Play in More Ways Than One

My thoughts: a. Pick on someone your own size, Israel!b. We mistake this for a 'war'.  It's not.  It's Jenin writ large.  It's the Israeli style police action where they go in and destroy everything...

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Warren Buffet: Economic Emergency Is Like War. Everyone Should Support...

When asked why things seem to be getting worse, Buffet pointedly noted that there were 535* cooks in the kitchen  and the rest needed to get behind the president as the leader because the economic...

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On Anniversary of Fall of Baghdad: Bush Effigy Hung, Burned in "Park" Where...

Lets be clear about a few facts: Firdous Square was called Paradise Park by reporters) in 2003 a small group of Iraqis (by picture shown to boperatives of Bush administration ally political Chalabi)...

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