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Iraq War: News & Analysis

Jul 20, 2008: What Do Iraqis Think of Barack Obama?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Iraq War: News & Analysis , U.S. Politics
Newsweek's Larry Kaplow, writing in a July 20, 2008, post in the Checkpoint Baghdad Blog, "with reporting from Hussam Ali, Yassar Ghani, Salih Mehdi and Hassan al-Jarrah," contends that: Iraqis are mystified by Barack Obama. As he kicked off his...

Mar 22, 2008: John McCain's Iran Gaffe
Comments: 1 | Categories: Iraq War: News & Analysis , U.S. Politics
Gareth Porter, "historian, national security policy analyst, journalist and author of "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam", asserts in a March 21, 2008, post at International Press Service (IPS) Web Site: Sen. John...

Jan 2, 2008: New York Review of Books Looks at McClatchy's Iraqi Bloggers
Comments: 0 | Categories: Iraq War: News & Analysis , Iraqi Affairs
Journalist and author Michael Massing has a gripping report in the January 17, 2008, edition of the New York Review of Books on McClatchy Newspapers' valuable Iraqi bloggers. They publish the Inside Iraq blog. "About a year ago," Massing writes,...

Jul 25, 2007: President Bush Still Using Al-Qaeda to Justify U.S.-British Invasion of Iraq
Comments: 0 | Categories: Intelligence Affairs , Iraq War: News & Analysis , Iraqi Affairs
(Editor's note: Below are excerpts from a speech that U.S. President George W. Bush delivered at Charleston Air Force Base in Charleston, South Carolina, on July 24, 2007. The portion on Al-Qaeda in Iraq is presented so readers of The...

Jul 21, 2007: Time's Blueprint on 'How to Leave Iraq'
Comments: 0 | Categories: Iraq War: News & Analysis
A July 19, 2007 article at Time magazine online says, "There are two big schools of thought about what the U.S. should do next in Iraq, and both schools are almost certainly wrong." See "How to Leave Iraq." The article...

Jul 21, 2007: Would the U.S. Quitting Iraq Be So Terrible?
Comments: 1 | Categories: Iraq War: News & Analysis
Gregory Djereijan at The Belgravia Dispatch notes in a July 21, 2007, post headlined "Hold Forever, or Gradually Fold?": "Tom Friedman writes: "(q)uitting Iraq would be morally and strategically devastating." "There is a broad consensus, from McCain/Lieberman, to Friedman/Pollack, even...

Jul 15, 2007: LA Times: Few Foreign Fighters In Iraq; Most Are From Saudi Arabia
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Los Angeles Times Correspondent Ned Parker, writing from U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Iraq, has a report in the July 15, 2007, edition of Latimes.com that says: Although Bush administration officials have frequently lashed out at Syria and Iran, accusing it of helping...

Apr 26, 2007: Garth Porter Describes 'A U.S. Recipe for Endless War in Iraq'
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Gareth Porter, described by Asia Times online as "a historian and national-security policy analyst" and author of "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam," asserts in an April 27, 2007, article that, "The language...

Apr 26, 2007: Professor Juan Cole: 'Iraq Casualty Numbers Doctored'
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"Since the Bush administration doesn't actually have any good news on Iraq, they are just making it up," contends University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole, proprietor of the influential Informed Comment blog, in an April 26, 2007, roundup of news...

Apr 23, 2007: What Does Bush's Separation Wall For Iraq Mean?
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The blog Missing Links, which offers "News items from the Arabic-language press to help fill in the gaps" in Western news coverage of the Middle East, published an April 22, 2007, perspective on the Bush Administration's decision to build the...