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Redeployment

It's Time to Come Home

Cheryle Jackson | Posted 11.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Iraq War, Redeployment, President Obama, Troops, Economy, Military, Thanksgiving, Afghanistan, United States, Chicago News
Cheryle Jackson

It's time for America to bring our troops and money home. This should be the last holiday season our troops are separated from their families.

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Tragedy and Compassion in Iraq

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

Read More: Sectarian Tension Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Redeployment, Shia-Sunni-Alliance, US Soldiers, Gulf War, Iraq-Sectarian-Violence, Us-Iraq Security Agreement, Iraq Sofa, Shia, Iraq, Sectarian Violence, Iraq Security Iraq Violence, Iraq Withdrawal, Iraq Pullout, World News
Firas Al-Atraqchi

The fireworks fired into the air and the pomp and circumstance of so-called Sovereignty Day cannot mask the grief felt by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who lost loved ones in the past six years.

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What Obama's Iraq Speech Means for American Foreign Policy

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 04.02.2009 | World

Read More: Redeployment, Obama, Iraq, National Security, Obama Troops, Troops, Obama Iraq Withdrawal, War, President Obama, Obama Withdrawal Plan, War in Iraq, Barack Obama, Iraq War, Miltary, US Troops Iraq, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, 100 Days, Status of Forces, Status of Forces Agreement, Obama Iraq, World News
Ilan Goldenberg

It's not all about Iraq. It is about America's interests around the globe and the costs and benefits of pursuing different strategies.

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Sam Stein

Obama's Afghanistan Dilemma: "Growing Dissent" On More Troops

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Redeployment, Afghanistan Dillema, Surge, Troops Iraq, Barack Obama, Progressives Foreign Policy, Iraqi Troops, Obama Foreign Policy, President Obama, Politics News

No more than one year ago, it was widely assumed that the great foreign policy challenge facing the next president would be what to do with U.S. troop...

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Why the Gates Pick Works

Jon Soltz | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Redeployment, Robert Gates, Obama's Cabinet, Donald Rumsfeld, Obama Administration, Iraq, War in Iraq, Barack Obama, Obama Gates, Politics News
Jon Soltz

With a new Commander in Chief with a very different view, Gates provides the perfect short-term bridge between the eras of pre-Iraq-redeployment and post-Iraq-redeployment.

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Iraq: US Soldiers Being Redeployed, Despite Mental Instability

ABC | By BOB WOODRUFF, JAMES HILL and JAIME HENNESSEY | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Veterans, Redeployment, Soldiers, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Politics News

Two weeks before his second deployment to Iraq last September, Army Specialist Michael DeVlieger broke down. "At first, I thought it was something th...

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Virtue Out of Necessity: Bush Troop Decision Disingenuous

Lawrence Korb | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Surge, Sunni Militias, Ilsamist Extremists, Shi'a Civil War, Iraq War, Radical Islamist Extremeists, Shiite Civil War, Iraq Shiite Violence, General Petraeus, Sunnis, Redeployment, Success of the Surge, US Troop Deployments, Politics News
Lawrence Korb

Despite the president's assertion that the withdrawal of some troops represents a "return on success" from his "surge" policy, he is merely making a virtue out of necessity.

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Army Might Return To 12-Month Tours This Summer

Army Times | Lolita Baldor | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Redeployment, Warwire, Robert Gates, Afghanistan, George Casey, 15-Month Tours, Multiple Tours, 12-Month Tours, General Petraeus, Iraq, Afghanistan War, Politics News

The top Army officer said Wednesday that the Army may begin moving to 12-month battlefield tours this summer, a shift seen as critical to reducing the...

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Jason Linkins

Bush To Be Uncomfortably Reminded Of Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Generals Anti-War, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Redeployment, War in Iraq, Afghanistan War, George W. Bush, Politics News

President Bush often talks about how he "listens to the Generals." At least when they're telling him what he wants to hear. And when they don't have...

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