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Archives for September 2006

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Democracy Now Look For Me On Amy

Democracy Now Look For Me On Amy

Juan Cole

Democracy Now Look for me on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now Show on Monday, however and whenever you get it.

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Over 6000 Killed In July August 75

Over 6000 Killed In July August 75

Juan Cole

Over 6,000 Killed in July-August; 75% Sunnis Support Insurgency; 50 Killed on Weds. including 2 GIs Two US soldiers were announced killed on Wednesday, as the US military admitted that attacks against US personnel have risen during the past month. Typically about 70 percent of the roadside bombings in Iraq are aimed at US troops. […]

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Chavez And Devil Bushs Use Of Evil

Chavez And Devil Bushs Use Of Evil

Juan Cole

Chavez and the Devil: Bush’s Use of ‘Evil’ Comes Home to Roost ‘Railing and praising were his usual themes,And both, to show his judgment, in extremes;So over-violent, or over-civil,That every man with him was god or devil’ – John Dryden Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez referred to US President George W. Bush as “the devil” in […]

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4 Gis Killed At Least 64 Iraqis Killed

4 Gis Killed At Least 64 Iraqis Killed

Juan Cole

4 GIs Killed; at least 64 Iraqis Killed Massive Bomb Near Mosul Ed Wong of the New York Times reports on increasing American and Iraqi dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, given that he has not reversed the slide into worse and worse security. We historians don’t approve of great man theories of history, and […]

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Bush V

Bush V

Juan Cole

Bush v. Ahmadinejad Egypt’s Jamal Mubarak Rejects “New Middle East” Announces Nuclear Quest The speeches given at the UN by US President George W. Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were mirror images of one another. Bush accused Iran of seeking nuclear weapons and of supporting terrorism. Ahmadinejad said that his own country’s nuclear research […]

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70 Dead Bombings In Ramadi Tal Afar

70 Dead Bombings In Ramadi Tal Afar

Juan Cole

70 Dead, Bombings in Ramadi, Tal Afar Virtue Party Proposes Provinces as Regions Kofi Annan says that Iraq is sliding into sectarian civil war. He called for urgent action, warning, ” . . . if current patterns of alienation and violence persist much longer, there is a grave danger that the Iraqi state will break […]

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Cobban And Cole Check Out Helena

Cobban And Cole Check Out Helena

Juan Cole

Cobban and Cole Check out Helena Cobban’s “Just World News” for an account of our program together on Sunday in Ann Arbor on Iraq, and her comments on Trudy Rubin and Jim Webb on Iraq. As for her critique of my present lack of policy prescriptions for Iraq, I’m just being realistic. It is increasingly […]

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Khameneis Conspiracy Theory Links Pope

Khameneis Conspiracy Theory Links Pope

Juan Cole

Khamenei’s Conspiracy Theory Links Pope to Bush’s Crusade Kayhan reports in Persian on remarks of Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei of Iran on the Pope’s Regensburg lecture. Khamenei expressed profound regret at the Pope’s statements about Islam. He said that the first aspect of these remarks was the accusations that had been made against Islam. The […]

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At Least 26 Dead In Kirkuk Bombings 32

At Least 26 Dead In Kirkuk Bombings 32

Juan Cole

At least 26 Dead in Kirkuk Bombings 32 Bodies Found in Baghdad Early reports said that a massive truck bombing downtown Kirkuk killed 19 and wounded 65. With three other bombings and other acts of violence, altogether 26 were said to have been killed and nearly 100 wounded in the northern oil city on Sunday. […]

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