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Human Rights Watch: 65 Executed In Iraq So Far In 2012

2012-02-09T07:17:55Z

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities executed at least 65 people in the first 40 days of 2012 for various offenses, including 14 on a single day, Human ...

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Robert Naiman: WaPo : Sneaky Persians Menace Pentagon's Noble Aim to Keep U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Forever

2012-01-09T12:55:40Z

The Post story is quite instructive, even if it is not exactly "news" in the common sense of the term.

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Al Eisele: Some Final Thoughts About the War In Iraq

2012-01-01T22:00:47Z

With the final withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, I remember the four young Marines and a Navy corpsman I met in Baghdad in March 2005 at Camp Victory.

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Iraqis Cheer Departure Of U.S. Forces

2011-12-30T10:40:33Z

BAGHDAD — Hundreds of Sunni Muslims gathered in Baghdad Friday to celebrate the withdrawal of American forces, but in a sign of the sectarian di...

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End Of Iraq War Missing Traditional Milestone

2011-12-27T14:56:14Z

WASHINGTON — Americans probably won't be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade anytime soon for troops returning from Iraq, and it's not clear if vet...

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Steve Clemons: Getting the Audit Right on Iraq

2011-12-26T15:38:21Z

I think Biden and his team have done the best job that any outsider could have done in helping to calm sectarian distrust and to generate a commitment to a semi-democratic process as Iraq evolves.

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James Zogby: Iraq War: Not Over and Danger Ahead

2011-12-24T09:59:18Z

America leaves an Iraq that is deeply divided. After decades of ruthless rule, Iraqis endured an invasion and occupation, suffered from terror and ethnic cleansing, and while the trappings of a democracy have been set-up, it remains in a gestational state.

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Ned Lamont: Returning Home From Iraq: Lessons Learned.

2011-12-23T19:19:08Z

As the last of our troops return home from Iraq, the greatest tragedy of this misguided war is if we learn nothing.

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Tom Hayden: Hawks Pushing for U.S. Troops in Iraq

2011-12-23T16:15:04Z

American hawks are blaming President Obama for a premature withdrawal from Iraq, as if a few thousand American troops could prevent the country's current sectarian convulsion.

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Mitt Romney Flip-Flops On Iraq

2011-12-22T01:09:37Z

Mitt Romney, speaking on Wednesday to NBC News' Chuck Todd, seemed to shift positions on the Iraq War.

As highlighted by New York Magazine's Jonath...

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Olga Bonfiglio: War and Peace in Kalamazoo

2011-12-21T16:13:45Z

Members of the Kalamazoo Nonviolent Opponents of War (KNOW) held their usual Sunday peace vigil in front of the Federal Building in downtown Kalamazoo as they have been doing since September 1, 2002. And, it doesn't look as though they are going away despite President Obama's declaration of the end of the war in Iraq.

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Last U.S. Troops Whoop, Fist-Bump Their Way Out Of Iraq

2011-12-18T09:51:08Z

KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait — The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighboring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fis...

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PHOTOS: U.S. Troops Leave Iraq

2011-12-15T11:41:41Z

On Thursday the United States officially ended its war in Iraq, nine years after it first invaded the country. In a closing ceremony attended by Defen...

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U.S. Military Formally Shuts Down The War In Iraq

2011-12-15T04:25:07Z

By Missy Ryan and Patrick Markey

(Reuters) - The U.S. military officially ended its war in Iraq on Thursday, packing up a military flag at a ceremo...

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Iraq's Security Forces Await Difficult Task

2011-12-14T09:11:04Z

BAGHDAD -- After billions of dollars and nearly nine years of training, American troops are leaving behind an Iraqi security force arguably capable of...

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As U.S. Departure Nears, Sunni Worries In Iraq's Tikrit Grow

2011-12-13T05:26:54Z

TIKRIT, Iraq — In the hometown of the late Saddam Hussein, arrests have become so commonplace that whenever a police car shows up, young men fle...

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As Troops Are Leaving Iraq, Obama Set To Meet PM

2011-12-12T05:46:18Z

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Majority Of Democrats And Republicans Support Iraq Troop Withdrawal

2011-11-12T11:44:42Z

As the Republican presidential candidates prepare to debate foreign policy in South Carolina Saturday night, a new poll shows that three in four Ameri...

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U.S. Fears New Surge Of Al Qaeda Violence

2011-11-06T08:34:47Z

BAGHDAD -- As the United States prepares to withdraw its troops from Iraq by year's end, senior American and Iraqi officials are expressing growing co...

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Peter Van Buren: Immunity: Disastrous Decisions in 2007 Return to Haunt 2012

2011-11-04T17:15:27Z

It was the 2007 Nisour Square Blackwater killings, not Wikileaks, that derailed plans for U.S. troops to stay on in Iraq.

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Americans Side With Obama On Iraq, Poll Finds

2011-11-03T15:07:20Z

As the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq moves forward, a new poll shows that a resounding percentage of Americans agree with President Barack Obama...

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David Isenberg: Good Luck to the U.S. State Department: You're Going to Need It

2011-11-02T12:45:04Z

Given the ongoing withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and the transition to a State-Department-led mission for all remaining U.S. personnel in Iraq, this is a good time to focus more closely on what exactly is happening.

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Ashwin Madia: GOP Candidates' Ignorant, Dangerous Responses to Iraq

2011-10-27T14:07:50Z

When it comes to the drawdown in Iraq, the Republican candidates for president have gone from outlandish to ignorant and irresponsible. If any of them actually believes what they've said, they should immediately be disqualified from being commander-in-chief.

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Jeff Danziger: McCain and Graham

2011-10-24T17:25:04Z

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Medea Benjamin: Only 'Success' in Iraq Is That US Troops are Leaving

2011-10-24T17:21:41Z

As Americans, we should wish nothing but the best for the people of Iraq -- but we should also acknowledge that, if the country finds peace and prosperity, it will be in spite of what the U.S. government did to their country, not because of it.

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