Iraq Reconciliation

The Surge Is Working? Not If You Read the Latest GAO Report

Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

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What the GAO report makes clear, above all else, is that contrary to what the mainstream media and the GOP would have you believe, the surge has not worked. It's time for the U.S. military to go home.

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Iraq Reconciliation Talks Hit By Walkouts

Reuters | Waleed Ibrahim and Mohammed Abbas | Posted 03.18.2008 | Home

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A conference to reconcile Iraq's warring political groups began to unravel even before it got under way on Tuesday, with the main Sunni Muslim Arab bl...

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Female Suicide Bomber Attacks Popular Market Iraq

AP | Posted 01.16.2008 | Home

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A woman wearing a vest lined with explosives blew herself up near a popular market and Shiite mosque in turbulent Diyala province north of the capital...

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

Reuters | Posted 01.11.2008 | Home

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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 01.10.2008 | Home

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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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Iraqis Abandon Key Policy Goal Of Surge

The Carpetbagger Report | Posted 10.08.2007 | Home

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For all its dissembling, the White House has actually been fairly clear about the purpose of Bush's "surge" policy -- more U.S. troops would lessen th...

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