Reading The Pictures: The Case Of The Invisible American War Machine
Last week, I thought there was something fishy about the photos from Amara, and now a new Time article bears it out.
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Al Qaida In Iraq Leader Arrested By Iraqi Army: Report
AP | PATRICK QUINN | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
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BAGHDAD — The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman s...
US Seeks Private Security Contractors To Train Iraqi Military
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
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U.S. commanders in Iraq are for the first time seeking private contractors to form part of the small military teams that train and live with Iraqi mil...
Iraq Army Unit Flees Post Despite US Soldiers' Pleas
New York Times | MICHAEL R. GORDON | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
A company of Iraqi soldiers abandoned their positions on Tuesday night in Sadr City, defying American soldiers who implored them to hold the line agai...
1,300 Iraqi Troops, Police Dismissed
AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 04.13.2008 | Home
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BAGHDAD — Iraq's government moved Sunday to restore discipline within the ranks of the security forces, sacking more than 1,300 soldiers and pol...
More Questions For Petraeus
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
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What would it take for America to tell Maliki that we aren't going to support the Iraqi Army in any military offensive?
Why Our Feith-Based Iraqi Policy Failed
Lionel Beehner | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
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Only in the field of foreign policy can someone have so disastrous a record and be showered with medals, professorships, and endowed chairs at prestigious think tanks.
Questions For Petraeus
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
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If only Maliki had waited two or three weeks, Petraeus and Crocker could have testified that everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, and gotten out of Washington unscathed.
'Standing Up' Iraq Army Looks Open-Ended
AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 03.29.2008 | Politics
Iraq's new army is "developing steadily," with "strong Iraqi leaders out front," the chief U.S. trainer assured the American people. That was three-pl...
Who is the Iraqi Army?
Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
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The core of the Iraqi Army is simply another Shiite militia. In essence, we are supporting one Shiite militia over another. Worse yet, we're supporting the militia with more ties to Iran.
US Sees Slow, Steady Iraq Troop Decline
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — As security conditions improve in Iraq, the U.S. should be able to reduce forces at a slow but consistent pace beyond this summer, ...
Remembering The News
Brian Williams | Posted 09.06.2007 | Media
The "who disbanded the Iraqi Army" blame game had me thinking back today to our first patrol into downtown Baghdad after the city fell. The images we saw along the way are permanently burned in my memory.
Bremer Hits Back At Criticism For Disbanding Iraq's Army: Bush Said I Had His "Full Support"
NY Times | L. PAUL BREMER III | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics
It has become conventional wisdom that the decision to disband Saddam Hussein's army was a mistake, was contrary to American prewar planning and was a...
Watch Basra
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.05.2007 | Politics
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Watch Basra. Because as goes Basra may go the entire Iraq debate in Washington.
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