Tag: war
member name: Charlie D.
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June 06, 2007 03:38 PM EDT --
Subject: Muqtada al-Sadr, Threats and Possibilities ...
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:31:36 -0800
The day before yesterday, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered
his Mahdi army to fight America's . . .
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June 06, 2007 06:25 PM EDT --
Reports in the past couple hours indicate that
"several thousand" Turkish soldiers have
invaded Kurdish Iraq today. An anonymous
Turkish source stated that it wasn't the "tens
of thousands" . . .
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June 06, 2007 09:07 PM EDT --
At present, the US on the ground in Iraq, the
State and Defense Departments are all denying
any Turkish action is occurring in Iraq, as is
the Iraqi government. However, CNN is
reporting that such is occurring, . . .
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June 13, 2007 12:19 AM EDT --
A front page story in the New York Times
today by Michael Gordon from Baghdad
addresses some questions raised in the piece
I wrote earlier today and the idea that we are
not coasting on US military . . .
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June 20, 2007 07:28 PM EDT --
One of the news sites I get regularly had an article by a
former Assistant Sec. of the Treasury, Paul Roberts,
suggesting that the Bush administration, knowing full
well that a conventional arms attack . . .
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June 05, 2007 06:14 PM EDT --
The AP, in the person of Charles Hanley, reported
yesterday that Turkish troops are massing on the
Iraqi border across from the Iraqi Kurdish area,
and that insurgents/"saboteurs" have blown . . .
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July 03, 2007 06:58 PM EDT --
Several lists that I am a part of have
produced some eloquent haikus and
commentary about the anniversary of
the first atom bomb being dropped on
Hiroshima sixty years ago today. I am
not that eloquent, . . .
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August 19, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
My friends on the American right continue
to insist that the war in Iraq is going well.
However, there are certain signs that continue
to make me wonder how true that it is in the
larger scheme of things. . . .
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September 09, 2007 08:58 PM EDT --
Yesterday, bitter fighting broke out in Karbala,
one of the Shiite "holy cities" presently full of
several "hundreds of thousands" of pilgrims.
Apparently, from fragmentary reports . . .
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September 16, 2007 03:11 PM EDT --
The Iraq war will be 4.5 years old on Wednesday.
The much-vaunted report from General David
Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker about
the state of the war, and the state of Iraqi politics,
seems a very . . .
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September 16, 2007 11:18 PM EDT --
It has been noted that President Bush has
changed his rhetoric about Iraq from seeking
"victory" to gaining "success." Thinking
about that over the day, does "success"
mean . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:53 PM EDT --
This was my eightieth completed book of
the year, (on 10 February, after five days
of fairly intensive reading) called The Great
War for Civilization, The Conquest . . .
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June 12, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
NPR had a story on this morning that I had
noticed in recent weeks from other sources,
alleged Al Qaeda in Iraq's increasing attacks
on key bridges throughout the country.
Eight of these have occurred . . .
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August 05, 2007 07:34 PM EDT --
While I can agree that American casualties are down,
and by *some* accounts sectarian murders are down,
there are still some really critical things not working
very well in Iraq besides the malfunctioning . . .
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July 14, 2007 04:49 PM EDT --
Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's beleaguered Prime
Minister, announced Saturday that US
troops could leave "at any time" and
Iraq's police and military could maintain
the country's security. . . .
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August 21, 2007 06:49 PM EDT --
Yesterday, Senator Levin (D-MI) called for al-Maliki's
removal as Iraq's Prime Minister, stating that the Iraqi
government is "non-functional." Levin's suggestion
was that the Iraqi . . .
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September 09, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
Over the months of this year and last, I've taken
a fair amount of heat for repeating stories by a
variety of folks about US (and/or Israeli) plans
to get at Iran by one process or another, usually . . .
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July 22, 2007 05:47 PM EDT --
Here's a place in the world most of us, myself
included, have not given much attention to and,
in light of recent events, that perhaps we should
be watching more closely. Pakistan, one of only
. . .
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July 14, 2007 03:00 PM EDT --
Yesterday I was watching the network (NBC)
news, something I don't do a lot, but they had
a feature piece about the Iraqi police complete
with an animated reconstruction of how the
incident early yesterday . . .
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July 29, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
Russia appears on a course that grows in
hostility towards the West, and leans to
greater and greater authoritarianism and
militarism at home. Many analyses seem
to suggest that Russia's boom . . .
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