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Iraq Insurgency

Hey War Hawks: What Are You Thinking These Days?

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Liberation, Politics, Iraq, War, Cheney, Hawks, Iraq Liberators, Iraq Insurgency, Iraq War, Tim Russert, Politics News
Jeffrey Shaffer

Dick Cheney may have thought we'd be welcomed as liberators, but anyone who compared the Middle East of 2003 to Europe before World War Two was off the rails.

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Iraq Land Mines Would 'Need An Army' To Clear Out

McClatchy | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq Insurgency, Iraq War, Foreign Affairs, Iraq Explosives, Iraq Land Mines, Land Mines, Iraq, War in Iraq, Advocacy, World News

Homemade bombs go off almost every day in Iraq, usually targeting military and police convoys in cities such as Baghdad and Mosul....

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US Soldiers Kill Iraqi Boy, 12, After Thrown Grenade

New York Times | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

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American soldiers shot and killed two people in the northern city of Mosul, including a 12-year-old boy the military said had thrown a hand grenade at...

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Iraqi Bombings Spark Fear Of Insurgent Push

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — It's been a season of jarring flashbacks in Iraq: a spate of major suicide bombings, including more than 145 dead over two days of blo...

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Iraq Insurgent Attacks Likely To Rise As US Troops Leave: Pentagon

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top Middle East adviser said Wednesday insurgent attacks in Iraq will probably increase as U.S. forces start to leav...

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No Vietnam is This

Stephen Herrington | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Great Britain, Pakistan, Vietnam War, President Obama, Iraq Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, World News
Stephen Herrington

The Afghan conflict, in which we find ourselves, is a war simply neglected, materially and strategically.

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Iraqi Resistance Infighting

Fay Ferguson | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Saddam Hussein, US Troops Iraq, Opposition, Al-Qaeda, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Iraq Insurgency, Iraq Baathists, World News
Fay Ferguson

The Supreme Command of Jihad and Liberation were due to meet with other groups opposed to US-backed prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to discuss plans for governance after US troops leave.

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Up Close With The Counterinsurgency

Columbia Journalism Review | Paul McLeary | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Counterinsurgency, Iraq War, Warwire, Iraq Insurgents, Iraq, Iraq Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, Politics News

Last week, the news from Iraq was grim. Five U.S. soldiers were killed near Mosul, two female suicide bombers killed scores of civilians in Baghdad, a...

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Security Gains From Surge Backsliding

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Surge, Success of the Surge, Hillary Clinton Surge, John Mccain Surge, General Petraeus, War in Iraq, Iraq Insurgency, Politics News

It was the crescendo of an otherwise flat State of the Union address. "Ladies and Gentlemen," President George W. Bush declared Monday night, "some ma...

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Bush: We Could "Easily" Be In Iraq For Another 10 Years

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Success of the Surge, Iraq Oil Law, War in Iraq, Iraq Surge, Warwire, General Petraeus, Iraq Reconciliation, Iraq War, George W. Bush on Iraq, Bush and Iraq War, Iraq Reconstruction, Petraeus Iraq, Iraq Insurgency, Politics News

U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday the United States would have a long-term presence in Iraq that could "easily" last a decade, but that it ...

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New Iraq Approach Acknowedges Benchmarks Unmet

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung and Thomas Ricks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Reconstruction, Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Warwire, Success of the Surge, War in Iraq, Iraq Reconciliation, General Petraeus, Iraq Insurgency, Iraq Oil Law, Petraeus Iraq, Politics News

In the year since President Bush announced he was changing course in Iraq with a troop "surge" and a new strategy, U.S. military and diplomatic offici...

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Iran No Longer Aids Iraq Militants

Washinton Times | Sara Carter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Iran's leaders are no longer supplying weapons or training to Islamic militants in Iraq, the spokesman for the top U.S. commander in Iraq told The Was...

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All Iraqi Groups Blame US Invasion For Discord, Study Shows

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see t...

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Dick Cheney Predicts Iraq Will Be A Self-Governing Democracy By 2009

Politico | Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Insurgency, Iraq Democracy by 2009, Insurgency in Its Last Throes, Iraq Democracy, Iraq War, War in Iraq, Dick Cheney, George Bush, War on Terror, Politics News

Vice President Cheney today predicted Iraq will be a self-governing democracy by the time he leaves office, calling the current U.S. surge strategy "a...

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Bloomberg: Insurgents In Iraq Like Americans Who Fought British

NY Post | DAVID SEIFMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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In his most detailed comments on the Iraq war, Mayor Bloomberg last night suggested the United States was in the same difficult position as the Britis...

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Sunni Insurgents In New Campaign To Kill Officials

The New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal lea...

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