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• No election law in Iraq (still)

  
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  The Iraqi Parliament has still not passed an election law. They met again today, this was supposed to be the day, like so many before it, it wasnt. CNN reports that now the word is that Parliament will pass something on Sunday and cite MP Bari "Al-Zebari said several Sunni Arab parliament members boycotted the ...
  2 days ago

• The Fort Hood shooting

  
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  An army officer upset at the prospect of deploying to Iraq opened fire on fellow soldiers at the worlds largest military base yesterday in a mass shooting that left 12 people dead and at least 31 wounded. At least two other men in uniform were initially suspected of involvement in the incident at Fort Hood in Texas, ...
  4 days ago

• The price of oil

  
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  Oil revenue accounts for more than 90 percent of Iraqs annual budget, and much of the future planning was made when oil prices hit record highs in 2008, [United States Institute of Peaces Sam] Parker says. Now that crude prices have fallen, Baghdad feels new pressure to ramp up production: The Oil Ministry hopes to be ...
  5 days ago

• No Iraq election law still

  
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  An impasse over a law crucial to organizing next years Iraqi elections is illustrating more starkly than ever the United States dwindling ability to shape Iraqi politics and settle disputes. U.S. and U.N. officials have grown increasingly worried in recent days as Iraqi lawmakers have continued to put off a vote amid ...
  6 days ago

• Jon Corzine loses governors seat (Mike)

  
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  Last night, Mike blogged about the New Jersey governors race . Rebecca asked if she could cross-post it at the mirror site (which was fine) but in case anyone missed that, Im including it this morning. Corzine goes down for the count Tuesday! What a great day!!!!! ...
  6 days ago

• Almost two weeks after being run over, Noor Faleh Almaleki has died

  
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  Noor Faleh Almaleki has died. The 20-year-old Iraqi woman was intentionally run over October 20th (see the October 21st snapshot ) while she and Amal Edan Khalaf were running errands (the latter is the mother of Noors boyfriend and she was left injured in the assault). Police suspected Noors father, Faleh Hassan ...
  1 week ago

• PTSD, plastic surgery

  
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  War has changed the Oregon Army National Guard, which has deployed troops on 8,400 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. It turned the states emergency volunteers into combat veterans. And last month, a Grant County jury considered how much war changed Jessie Bratcher. For the first time in Oregon, and among the ...
  1 week ago

• Service members

  
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  Many military personnel who acquired post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan are being inappropriately discharged, despite Pentagon assurances that proper policy is being followed. Thats the conclusion of Sens. Kit Bond of Missouri and Sam Brownback of Kansas, both Republicans. The two ...
  1 week ago

• US military announces a death

  
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  Today the US military announced : "JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq – A Soldier who was currently assigned to the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) died Wednesday of a non-combat related injury at Camp Adder, Iraq. The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin and release by the ...
  1 week ago

• Another service members spouse threatened with deportation

  
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  Most of the troops downtime activities here in the 1-150th Assault Helicopter Division can be placed into one of four categories: Going to the gym, spending time on the computer, talking on the telephone or watching television. The favorite pastime is connecting with families or friends. Blackhawk pilot Mark Martella ...
  2 weeks ago

• The US Embassy in Baghdad

  
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  It is the worlds most expensive embassy, costing more than $700 million (£427 million) and designed to withstand earthquakes and insurgents. Yet only nine months after being opened, the US Embassy in Iraq is riddled with problems expected to cost more than $130 million to fix. Nobody praised its architecture when it ...
  2 weeks ago

• NYT thinks Iraqs Constitution matters . . . sometimes

  
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  Iraqs political leaders need a strong shove ahead if there is to be any hope of withdrawing American troops on time and ensuring that the country they leave behind doesnt once again unravel. Maybe its better that the New York Times ignore Iraq? The above is from the editorial in todays paper entitled " Counting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Those amazing and wonderful Iraqi security forces

  
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  A recent spate of high-profile crimes, including a brazen and violent robbery of Baghdad jewelry shops thought to have involved police collusion, has forced Interior Ministry officials to confront head-on the corruption within the ranks of the 663,000-strong security forces. The problems, the officials say, include ...
  2 weeks ago

• "This war has to end, because theyre little, theyre kids. Hes 22, hes a kid. Theyre kids dying."

  
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  So far this week, the US military has announced two deaths in Iraq. Monday, the US military announced : "CONTINGENY OPERATION BASE SPEICHER, TIKRIT, Iraq -- a Multi-National Division - North Soldier was killed and two were injured in a vehicle accident approximately five miles west of Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 18. The name ...
  2 weeks ago

• The distractors (FMF), the liars (ibid) and more

  
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  Sharon Smith has an article entitled " The antiwar movement retreats " (US Socialist Worker ). Im not a big fan of Smith for obvious reasons ( Elaine s outlined many -- as has been noted over the years, we generally agree on everything but the only real difference is Elaine usually reaches a conclusion a little ...
  3 weeks ago

• The War Mongers refuse the refugees

  
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  In England, Owen Bowcott (Guardian) reports , "The UK Border Agency is preparing to send the first, mass deporation flight returning failed asylum seekers to Baghdad and southern Iraq, according to a refugee organisation that monitors expulsions." The group is the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blackwaters private court hearing

  
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  Years later, the Humvee would race past insurgent-saturated villages, blasting out Metallica and gunfire while Moose shouted taunts at the enemies who hid within. "I would just talk [expletive] to them," said Moose, 28, as he burned through a pack of German cigarettes in his Vickery Meadow apartment in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Parents of the fallen want accountability

  
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  Parents of soldiers who died in Iraq have accused Tony Blair of lying to Britain over the decision to invade in 2003 and one said she wanted him indicted as a "war criminal", in an emotional first day of the Iraq Inquiry. The above is from Stephen Adams " Tony Blair misled country over Iraq war, parents of dead ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ditching the equipment

  
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  The conferees have some ideas for getting rid of some of that U.S. military equipment sitting in Iraq. They authorized Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, as long as he has the okay of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, to give as much as $750 million of military equipment now in Iraq or Kuwait to the military ...
  4 weeks ago

• The betrayal of Iraqi women

  
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  When I was speaking to some of the officers in charge of training in the presence of "the friendly side," as the Iraqi security officials refer to the U.S. military, they were all for developing the military to include the "female element," in a subdued way. But when I had a chance of talking to them alone -- it was a ...
  4 weeks ago

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