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House rebuffs Bush on Iraq Iraq Minorities in Extreme Peril The House of Representatives again rebuffed Bush on Iraq, voting by a comfortable majority to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq but to keep some there to fight ‘al-Qaeda terrorists’ in Iraq. This plan of keeping troops in Iraq to fight “al-Qaeda” seems to me naive. […]

140,000 Turkish Troops Mass at Iraq Border Iraq Benchmarks still Waiting for Godot Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (a Kurd) warned Monday that 140,000 Turkish troops were massed at the border with Iraq. Ankara accuses Iraqi Kurdistan of giving safe harbor to PKK terrorists who are blowing up soldiers and others in Turkey’s eastern Anatolia. […]

Everyday Apocalypse in Iraq War of the Mosques 142 Dead on Tuesday 142 persons were killed or found dead on Tuesday, and Wednesday morning two Sunni mosques in towns south of Baghdad were blown up. On Tuesday, a huge truck bomb in Baghdad blew up a Shiite mosque dedicated to an important religious figure and […]

A Surge of Phony Spin on Iraq: Cole in Salon My column is out in Salon.com Tuesday: A surge of phony spin on Iraq Bush’s backers are peddling a sunny view of the president’s strategy — despite Iraq’s political chaos and soaring death counts. excerpts: ‘ The troop escalation was intended to calm down Baghdad […]

Debate Scorecard on Iraq Here is the debate transcript from last night. The candidates basically split into a) those who wanted gradual withdrawal with political arrangements and perhaps some troops left in Iraq; and b) those who wanted an immediate and complete military withdrawal, followed by diplomacy. Biden, Clinton and Obama seemed to be in […]

Baquba Can’t be Held by Iraq Troops: Bednarak This AP story made me angry. I admire a straight shooter, so I am glad that Brig. Gen. Mick Bednarak admitted to AP that the Iraqi Army is not up to actually holding the neighborhoods in Baquba that US troops recently cleared, in hard fighting, of Salafi […]

Death surge: Iraq Coalition Forces Completing their deadliest Quarter: Guest Editorial William Blanchard writes: In early April, 2006, the New York Times ran a front page article in the Sunday paper trumpeting declining casualty rates among the coalition troops in Iraq. March, 2006 had been an unusually quiet month, and the Times published a chart […]

Few Foreign Fighters in Iraq; Many are Saudi Al-Maliki Says Iraqi Troops ready Manan Ahmed gives further insights into the motivations of the Glasgow bombers. Ned Parker of the LA Times reports that of 19,000 “insurgents” held by the US military in Iraq, only 135 are foreigners. Think about that when you hear Bush say […]