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If McCain didn’t have gays and the mullahs, he couldn’t get elected. But the promise of tax cuts and constant reminders of evil-doers might get it done: “I predict they will make an attempt as we get in to the election season to make more of these spectacular kinds of attacks, which they’re still capable [...] From Sam Dagher at the CSM: When the SOFA talks were launched in March, also under discussion was a broader, framework document outlining the political, economic, and security relationship between the US and Iraq. While the SOFA pact is being postponed, the framework document is expected to be completed soon with an appendix that temporarily governs [...] Yeah, the surge is working because everybody who could get out did and those that didn’t die live in hovels where potable water must be purchased like the fuel for cooking. Yeah, the surge is working because high concrete walls divide neighborhoods. Sunnis in the north live in former Shia homes and the converse in [...] From LTC Gian Gentile as quoted by Dr. iRack at Abu Muqawama: In 2005, the president himself committed the United States to a “clear, hold and build” doctrine in his “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq,” even as the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command devised a new counterinsurgency doctrine, units at training centers immersed themselves in [...] From Jason Leopold at TPR: “We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since (Operation) Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs,” Tenet said in an agency report to Congress Feb. 7, 2001. “Moreover, the automated video monitoring systems installed by the UN at known and suspect WMD facilities in Iraq [...] From Scott Peterson and Howard LaFranchi at the CSM: Iran’s intervention comes as previously undisclosed details are emerging of a secret meeting between Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, other senior Iraqi officials, and the commander of Iran’s Qods Force, Brig. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in April, after clashes with Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Basra. In that meeting, General [...] From Tina Susman in Baghdad for the LAT: There was something interesting missing from Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner’s introductory remarks to journalists at his regular news briefing in Baghdad on Wednesday: the word “Iran,” or any form of it. It was especially striking as Bergner, the U.S. military spokesman here, announced the extraordinary list of weapons [...] From Chris Floyd at the Baltimore Chronicle: George W. Bush and David Petraeus are preparing to make a new Fallujah in Sadr City, home to two million Shiites in Baghdad. Thousands of people are already fleeing the area before the full-scale slaughter and destruction begin. As in Fallujah, the multitudes who cannot escape will be trapped [...] From Global Voices Online: The occupiers have decided to implement the Israeli style ghettos of imprisoning people in concrete walls. When this didn’t solve their problem, they came to the idea of mass slaughter of the whole of Sadr-City, using mass bombing, rockets and heavy artillery against a civil population… A massacre that you will not see [...] From Stephanie Nebehay at Swiss News: GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations Gulf War reparations body paid out a further $972.4 million (493 million pounds) on Tuesday for losses due to Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait, bringing the total to nearly $24.4 billion, the agency said. The payments included some compensation for environmental damage inflicted on [...] |
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