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One Year After Cairo Speech: The U.S.-Muslim Engagement Initiative

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Jim Luce

Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world at Cairo University in Egypt one year ago was ground-breaking and transformational. While its impact was an...

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Iraq: What Must Now Be Done

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iraq Study Group, Iraq War, US Military, Middle East, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Status of Forces Agreement, War in Iraq, Politics News
James Zogby

Victory has not been won, nor has America's responsibility ended.

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This (Old) News Just In... Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Iraq Occupation

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iraq Study Group, Iraq War, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Private Contractors, Richard Danzig, Blackwater Iraq, Iraq Occupation, New York Times, Iraq, Residual Force, Barack Obama, Colin Kahl, Anti-War, Obama Iraq Withdrawal, Iraq Withdrawal, Obama Iraq, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

Some people seem to just now be waking up to the fact that Obama never had a comprehensive plan to fully end the occupation. Obama never defined "ending the war" as removing all U.S. forces from Iraq.

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Alabama Dems Benefit From GOP Congressman's Toxic Ties To Saddam

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Iraq Study Group, Tull Chemical Company, Mike Rogers, Poison, Alabama, Josh Segall, Saddam Hussein, Campaign Contributions, Sodium Fluoroacetate, Peter DeFazio, Alabama House Races, Compound 1080, Home News
Nathaniel Bach

GOP candidate Mike Rogers took money from a donor whose poison was found in the hands of Hussein's regime. The poison-maker also contributed to Roger's personal PAC shortly after a bill to ban the substance was introduced to a House Committee on which Rogers sits.

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Iraq Study Group Advisers: Political Progress "Superficial" Since Surge

Washington Post | Robin Wright | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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A new assessment of U.S. policy in Iraq by the same experts who advised the original Iraq Study Group concludes that political progress is "so slow, h...

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Second Baker-Hamilton Waiting On Baker

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Study Group, James Baker, Baker-Hamilton, Lee Hamilton, Baker Hamilton Study Group, War in Iraq, Politics News

The Iraq Study Group might get a second go-round. Legislation pushed by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), which is now law, directs the U.S. Institute of Peace...

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