Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
The US military command has given the Iraq government an ultimatum. Either accept the status of forces agreement on the table, which much of the Iraq government finds unacceptable, or the US will cease all operations on January 1, 2009.
In addition to halting all military actions, U.S. forces would cease activities that support Iraq’s economy, [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Foreign Policy, In The News, Iraq, John McCain '08, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on October 14th, 2008 by Michael van der Galien
The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that a delegation of Iraq’s Kurdish leadership and Turkish government officials met with each other in Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, earlier that day.
The Turks pressed Mahmoud Barzani, the president of the three-province semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, to crack down on the PKK in the region he is supposed [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on September 8th, 2007 by Todd Mitchell
Tune in tomorrow.
UPDATE: Senators John McCain & John Kerry debate Iraq on Sunday
On the eve of General Petraeus? long-awaited report to Congress on the effectiveness of the troop surge, Senators John McCain and John Kerry join the debate exclusively on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” this Sunday.
Republican Presidential candidate, Ranking Member of the Armed Services [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, John Kerry, Political News Shows, Politics, Republicans
Posted on August 1st, 2007 by Hart Williams
The Associated Press reports this breaking story:
Sunni Arab bloc quits Iraqi government
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SINAN SALAHEDDIN,
Associated Press
Wed Aug 1, 7:56 AM ET
BAGHDAD – Iraq’s largest Sunni Arab political bloc announced its withdrawal from the government Wednesday, undermining Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s efforts to seek reconciliation among the country’s rival factions.
Violence continued unabated, with 50 [...]
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Filed under: Breaking News, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Military, Terrorism
Posted on January 15th, 2007 by Donnie McDaniel
Somehow, I don’t think this is a way to ensure that a surge will turn into anything else other than a bigger nightmare than Bush’s little private war already is. A surge that very few seem to support at that. Add to the mix, the hanging of Saddam and the fiasco that it was.
Now Bush [...]
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Filed under: Bush, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security, Human Rights, Iraq, Military, National Security, Terrorism
Posted on December 29th, 2006 by Todd Mitchell
Cross posted from Article of Faith:
Did you know that the term “gala” originates from the gallows? Back in medieval England, crowds would dress up in their best clothes to attend the hanging, often followed by lavish parties where the decedent would be eulogized by the partiers. Invitations were often sent out: “We hang at eight, [...]
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Filed under: International, Iraq
Posted on December 7th, 2006 by BobHiggins
After nearly four years of bombings, from the air and from roadside ditches, after four years of blood, death, murder, torture, rape, beheadings, and a host of other unspeakable acts perpetrated on a daily basis by one faction, or militia or clan, or sect upon a rival clan or sect or militia, the Iraq Study [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, OP/ED's, Politics, Republicans
Posted on November 30th, 2006 by Javelin
The WaPo reports today: “Study group to call for pullback,” and notes that the Iraq panel does not call for timetable.
The Iraq Study Group, which wrapped up eight months of deliberations yesterday, has reached a consensus and will call for a major withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, shifting the U.S. role from combat to [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Politics, Republicans
Posted on April 5th, 2006 by Jeremy D. Broussard
Senator Kerry’s excellent op-ed piece today correctly puts the onus on the Iraqi government, not the U.S., to resolve the impasse in forming the government and stopping the civil war. Unless the Iraqis get serious about governing their own country and solving their own problems, we will have to leave. The role of the [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, John Kerry, OP/ED's
Posted on September 2nd, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
John Kerry has been in Iraq for the past week (see below) on a follow up from his January visit. I was told by a contact in his office that he “wanted to go again to thank our troops for their service, talk with military commanders about the situation on the ground and meet with [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Iraq, John Kerry
