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US Announces Second Fake End to Iraq War
Jason Ditz | Anti War.com Illustration by AzRainMan It was another of those great TV moments. Embedded reports filming as the “last” brigade of American troops in Iraq cross the border into Kuwait bringing over seven years of unhappy conflict to its final, conclusive end. America was, at last, at peace. But like so many [...]
Who Lost Iraq and Why It Matters: The Case for Offshore Balancing
Christopher Layne | World Policy Institue.com FALL 2007– Even as the George W. Bush administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress are locked in a bitter fight about the future direction of Iraq, a potentially more portentous debate about who lost Iraq and why is gathering force. Its impetus comes, ironically, from the very architects of the [...]
Top Iraq general: U.S. army ‘must stay’ until 2020
MSNBC.com The commander of Iraq’s military is calling for U.S. forces to stay in the country for another decade, reinforcing his stance that his country’s military won’t be able to secure the nation on their own after U.S. troops leave. “At this point, the withdrawal is going well, because they are still here, but the [...]
The Realist Prism: If Iraq is New Lebanon, Will U.S. Play Syria?
Nikolas Gvosdev | World Politics Review.com This week, President Barack Obama reaffirmed U.S. plans to end its combat mission in Iraq at the end of August, and to pull out the 50,000 troops that will remain past that date in a supporting, advisory role by the end of 2011. The president emphatically stated that “we [...]
The US isn’t leaving Iraq, it’s rebranding the occupation
The US isn’t withdrawing from Iraq at all – it’s rebranding the occupation. Seumas Milne | Guardian.co.uk For most people in Britain and the US, Iraq is already history. Afghanistan has long since taken the lion’s share of media attention, as the death toll of Nato troops rises inexorably. Controversy about Iraq is now almost [...]
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Obama Drops 2009 Pledge to Withdraw Combat Troops From Iraq
Gareth Porter | Anti War.com That statement was in line with the pledge he had made on Feb. 27, 2009, when he said, “Let me say this as plainly as I can: by Aug. 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end.” Seventeen months after President Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat brigades [...]
High Iraq deaths cast doubt on stability talk
Hamza Hendawi | MSNBC.com While concern is rising in the U.S. about the war in Afghanistan, the Americans are anxious to show evidence of progress in their other conflict — Iraq. New Iraqi government figures tell a different story, however, showing civilian casualties hitting their highest level in more than two years — figures the [...]
U.S. can’t account for $8.7 billion of Iraq’s money: audit
Reuters | MSNBC.com The figure is nearly 96 percent of the $9.1 billion funneled to the Pentagon from the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), said the audit report from the U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR). The U.S. Department of Defense was unable to account properly for $8.7 billion of Iraqi oil [...]