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Iraq Troops Sing Karaoke, Join Book Clubs, Rarely Go To War

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

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A new USA Today article has some interesting details about how U.S. troops stationed in Iraq are spending their time these days. Soccer makes the lis...

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Iraq: US Troop Reductions May Quicken, Says Gen. Odierno

nytimes.com | THOM SHANKER | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON �" The senior American commander in Iraq said Tuesday that he could reduce American forces to 50,000 troops even before the end of next s...

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15 Iraqi Soldiers Killed In Accidental Blast

AFP | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) �" Fifteen Iraqi soldiers were killed accidentally during what were meant to be controlled explosions in a town outside the northe...

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Iraq Troops' PTSD Rate As High As 35 Percent

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 09.15.2009 | Living

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The Veterans' Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers antici...

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"Coalition Of The Willing" Comes To An End As Last British Troops Leave Iraq

New York Times | ROD NORDLAND and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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Commanders of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, as the American-led military coalition here is formally called, have a looming nomenclature problem....

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Sam Stein

Biden: No Additional U.S. Soldier Will Die For Iraq (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics

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Should violence in Iraq spike with the removal of American troops, military commanders and administration officials have cautioned a policy of wait an...

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Sam Stein

White House Hails Iraq Troop Withdrawal But Won't Claim Victory

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

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The White House hailed on Tuesday the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops out of Iraq's cities but declined to qualify the benchmark as a victory, or eve...

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Army Chief Casey: US Ready To Be In Iraq 10 Years

AP | TOM CURLEY | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States an...

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Anti-War Groups Will Back Obama's Withdrawal Delay

The Plum Line | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

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President Obama is reportedly preparing to announce that he will order American combat troops to be out of Iraq by August of 2010, a deadline that's m...

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Sam Stein

Gates Praises Obama, Outlines New Defense World

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

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Newly re-appointed Defense Secretary Bob Gates took questions from the press on Tuesday, outlining some agenda items that the Obama administration is ...

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What's Bringing Together 50 Cent, Kid Rock, and Beyoncé? Showing Real Support for the Troops

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

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Paul Rieckhoff

Every time the media ignores the Iraq War in favor of stories about wardrobe malfunctions and who's in rehab this week, I blow a fuse. So why am I talking celebrities?

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Bush Admin Told Iraq Government It Wanted Troops To Stay Until 2015

Reuters | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics

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The United States asked Iraq for permission to maintain a troop presence there to 2015, but U.S. and Iraqi negotiators agreed to limit their authoriza...

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Bush Hits Home

Darryle Pollack | Posted 08.09.2008 | Living

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Darryle Pollack

My daughter is a military wife. Which makes me a military mother-in-law. Which means that I have a personal interest in Bush's announcement about shorter combat tours.

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Who's Paying The Biggest Price Now For Our War In Iraq? Our National Guard.

Bobby Muller | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

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Bobby Muller

Almost half of the soldiers scheduled to deploy to Iraq are members of our National Guard. We can't maintain this -- it is another cost of the war, one that is too great for our country to bear.

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Military Chief: US Doesn't Have Enough Troops To Send To Afghanistan

Washington Post | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

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From The Washington Post: The nation's top military officer said yesterday that more U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to tamp down an increasin...

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Secret US Plan Sets No Time Limit For US Presence In Iraq

The Guardian (U.K.) | Seumas Milne | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

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A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended ...

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Pentagon Brass Split On Troop Levels

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON — A new burst of violence in Iraq sharpens the differences among U.S. military leaders over how to balance the risk of pulling U.S. t...

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Ailing GIs Deployed To War Zones

Denver Post | Erin Emery | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Fort Carson sent soldiers who were not medically fit to war zones last month to meet "deployable strength" goals, according to e-mails obtained by The...

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A Drunken Night In Iraq, A Soldier Is Left Behind

Washington Post | Donna St. George | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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he sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the dirt. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptur...

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