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Karen Kwiatkowski: The Soldier Who Spoke Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War Anniversary, Pentagon, Office of Special Plans, Karen Kwiatkowski, Baghdad, Iraq Five Years Later, Iraq, Iraq Five Years of War, Politics News

As the war in Iraq completes its fifth year this week, The Huffington Post is featuring interviews with and essays by those journalists, elected offic...

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Five Years On, We've 'Betrayed' Iraqis

Lionel Beehner | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

Five years after the fall of Saddam, Iraqis cannot escape the inferno of violence in their own country, largely because of Washington's unwillingness to help them.

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5 Years After Iraq's "Liberation" There Are Worms In The Water

McClatchy Newspapers | Hannah Allam | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Basic Services, Iraq War Anniversary, Warwire, Iraq Utilities, Iraq War, Baghdad, Iraq, Iraq Five Years of War, Politics News

Iraq's most prominent clerics have ruled that using a water pump on one's own pipes is akin to stealing resources from a neighbor, so what does a pers...

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Bombs Kill More Than 50 in Baghdad

AP | ANNA JOHNSON | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, War in Iraq, Iraq War, Baghdad, Baghdad Bomb, Iraq Bombing, Iraq Roadside Bombs, Politics News

BAGHDAD — Two bombs went off within minutes of each other in a crowded shopping district in the capital Thursday, killing at least 53 people and...

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The Surge is a Farce

Lionel Beehner | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Baghdad, Political Reconciliation, Iraq, Petraeus, Surge, Sunni Awakening, Politics News

The so-called "Sunni Awakening" is a sham. We are, in effect, arming and bribing Sunnis to kill al-Qaeda in Iraq forces. Let's not kid ourselves why there has been this reduction in violence.

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Where Will Iraq Be In November?

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: November, October, Basra, Iraq, Campaign, Awakening, Shiite, Iran, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Bribe, 2008, Surge, Pkk, Kurds, 2008 Campaign, Cease Fire, Sectarian Cleansing, Iraqi Election, Turkey, John McCain, Kurd, Militia, JAM, Ethnic Cleansing, Iraqi Parliament, Green Zone, 2008 Elections, Mahdi Army, 08, 2008 Election, Al Qaeda in Iraq, Election, 08 Election, Elections, 08 Campaign, Sadr, 2008 Presidential Race, Aqi, Oil, British, Taliban, Baghdad, Maliki, Sunni, Islamic Law, Politics News

While everyone else is having fun determining who "won" or "lost" the Democratic debate last night, I would like to revisit an important topic: Iraq. ...

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Reading The Pictures: Retarded Surge

Michael Shaw | Posted 02.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Pet Market, Down Syndrome, White House, Ryan Crocker, Aol, Condoleezza Rice, Detonate, Times Online, Baghdad, Bombing, Al Qaeda, Media News

I had my suspicions about the suicide bombers, but it didn't stop a wide swath of media from jumping on the story, producing headlines and visuals like the one above.

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Rockets Kill 5 Near Baghdad Airport

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Iraq, War in Iraq, Iraq War, War on Terror, Baghdad, Baghdad Rocket Attacks, US Soldiers Iraq, Baghdad Airport, Iraq Rocket Attacks, Politics News

BAGHDAD — Rockets slammed into an Iraqi housing complex near the Baghdad international airport and a nearby U.S. military base on Monday, killin...

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Mental Hospital Administrator Arrested For Supplying Mentally-Retarded Patients To Insurgents For Suicide Attacks

McClatchy | Steve Lannen | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Mental Hospital Administrator, Warwire, Mentally-Retarded Women Suicide Bombs, Iraq War, War in Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq, Suicide Bombers, Suicide Bombs, War on Terror, Politics News

A Baghdad mental hospital administrator has been arrested on suspicion of supplying mental patients to insurgents for use in suicide bombings, a U.S. ...

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More Than 50 Killed in Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Warwire, Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq Violence, Politics News

BAGHDAD — Car bombs and gunmen struck new U.S. allies, police and civilians Sunday in northern Iraq, killing as many as 53 people. The spate of ...

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Iraq: 4 Killed in US Raid

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, War in Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq, War on Terror, Baghdad, Mass Grave Baghdad, Sectarian Violence, Shiites, Sunnis, Politics News

BAGHDAD — The U.S. military faced complaints Tuesday from its Sunni allies over claims that more civilians had been killed by American forces _ ...

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Iraqi Official: Baghdad Is Drowning In Sewage

AFP | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Baghdad Sewage, Baghdad, Iraq, Warwire, Iraq Sewage, Politics News

Baghdad is drowning in sewage, thirsty for water and largely powerless, an Iraqi official said on Sunday in a grim assessment of services in the capit...

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Army Investigating Allegations That US Troops Killed Iraqi Detainees

LA Times | Julian E. Barnes and Kimi Yoshino | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: American Soldiers Iraq Detainees, Baghdad, Warwire, Iraq Detainees, Iraq, Iraq War, War in Iraq, Politics News

U.S. Army officials are investigating allegations that American soldiers killed several detainees after they were captured on a battlefield in southwe...

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Living (In Baghdad)

Times Of London | Martin Fletcher | Posted 01.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Baghdad Surge, Life in Baghdad, Baghdad, Living News

A morning stroll, shopping, a trip to the barber, dining out: just an ordinary day - except that this is the most dangerous city in the world. As the ...

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Iraqi Troops Poised to Strike al-Qaida

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, War in Iraq, Iraq War, War on Terror, Baghdad, Iraq Insurgents, Iraqi Militants, Politics News

BAGHDAD — Iraqi army reinforcements moved Sunday into positions near the northern city of Mosul, ready to strike al-Qaida in Iraq targets in the...

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Suicide Bomber Attacks Iraqi School

AP | CHRISTOPHER CHESTER | Posted 01.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq War, Suicide Attack, Warwire, Baghdad, Iraq, Iraq Suicide Bomber, Home News

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber pushing an electric heater atop a cart packed with hidden explosives attacked a high school north of Baghdad on Tuesd...

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68 Lost In Continued Violence During Shiite Holiday

Associated Press | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Baghdad, Warwire, Iraq, War in Iraq, Shiite Militants, Politics News

Hundreds of thousands of frenzied Shiites beat their heads and chests in unison and whipped themselves with chains Saturday across Iraq to honor the m...

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Discontent Surging In Iraq

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Iraq War, Baghdad, Nouri Al Maliki, Discontent and Iraq, Warwire, Politics News

BAGHDAD — In the depths of a strangely cold winter in the Middle East, Iraqis complain that the lights are not on, the kerosene heaters are with...

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Iraq Parliament Reinstates Baathists

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 01.12.2008 | Home

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Iraq's parliament passed a benchmark law Saturday allowing lower-ranking former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to reclaim government jobs, th...

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Iraq: The Great Disappearing Issue Of '08 Race

New York Times Sunday Magazine | Noah Feldman | Posted 01.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Warwire, Iraq 2008 Election, Iraq War 2008 Election, Iraq War, Iraq War 2008 Elections, Baghdad, Iraq, Iraq 2008, Home News

What if the United States were at war during a presidential election -- and none of the candidates wanted to talk about it? Iraq has become the great ...

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Baghdad Embassy Considered A Serious Fire Risk

Washington Post | Glenn Kessler | Posted 01.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Baghdad Embassy Problems, Baghdad, US Embassy Baghdad, Baghdad Embassy, Baghdad Embassy Fire Risk, Warwire, Home News

The firefighting system in the massive $736 million embassy complex in Baghdad has potential safety problems that top U.S. officials dismissed in thei...

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US Launches Massive Airstrike South Of Baghdad

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 01.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Warwire, Surge, US Bombs Southern Baghdad, Iraq War, War in Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq, US Jetfighters, Home News

U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives on the southern outskirts of Baghdad within 10 minutes Thursday in one of the bigg...

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Low Expecations Have Supplanted High Ideals Inside Baghdad Green Zone

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 01.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Green Zone, Baghdad, Warwire, US Soldiers, Iraq War, Politics News

Several dozen soldiers and embassy staff members relaxed on the patio around Saddam Hussein's old swimming pool, shivering in the desert chill, as a b...

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The Top Eleven Myths about Iraq, 2007

Michael Schwartz | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Salafi Jihadi, Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Success of the Surge, Anbar Province, Juan Cole, Baghdad, Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq, Iraq, Sunnis, Shiites, Politics News

The Iraq myth I find most galling is that the surge has led to the pacification of large parts of Anbar province and Baghdad.

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2007 Deadliest Year For US Troops In Iraq

AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Casualties, Iraq War Deaths, Iraq Invasion, US Troops Iraq, Iraq Casualties, Iraq War, Baghdad, Iraq, Troop Deaths Iraq, Warwire, Politics News

The second half of 2007 saw violence drop dramatically in Iraq, but the progress came at a high price: The year was the deadliest for the U.S. militar...

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