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Maliki is Pissing on the Iraqi Constitution

Hold your emails– the title is not another grievance-inducing off-the-ranch remark by me, but instead comes from scholar and usually urbane analyst Reider Visser. Visser, on his blog and in his...

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Who won the war in Iraq? (Here’s a hint: It wasn’t the US)

(This article, written by me, originally appeared on Foreign Policy.com) When wars end, usually there is a winner and a loser. Greeks burn down the city for the win; Trojans accept a dummy horse for...

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Same as it Ever Was: US Commander Predicts Violence Ahead in Iraq

Here’s some good news on a Monday– The top US general in Iraq predicted a level of upheaval in the country as militant groups jostle to fill the vacuum left behind by the withdrawal of all American...

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Freedom War Update: Post-Black Friday Edition

Because many people have been tied up with shopping, over eating and leftovers, here is a quick war update. Please put down your forks and over-extended credit cards for a moment. We won’t be long....

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Well, That Didn’t Take Long

As all the false statements by Obama, Panetta and the neocon stenographers who tried to justify the war by claiming Iraq is a democratic, stable society drifted off into space, a day later Iraq’s...

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(Sunni) Anbar Gives Notice to (Shia) Central Government

Sunni Anbar province sent twenty demands to the central government to be implemented within 14 days, otherwise, the province will be declared as independent region, according to a decision taken by the...

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Iraq Heading Downhill Faster than a Tumbling Drunk

Hear that? That’s the sound of nine years worth of American bullshit about Iraq falling apart. It smells… like… victory! For those who were napping, literally a freaking day (this war’s “decent...

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How the Grinch Stole Iraq

As holiday carols ring in little Who ears, the Grinches in DC still play to our fears. The US continues to downplay events in Iraq, but it is a hard meme to maintain even given much holiday slack....

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Sunni v. Shia in Police Station Gunbattle

Finally, an Iraq narrative in simple enough terms for the average American (Rick Perry) to grasp, Cowboys versus Indians style! As part of the democratic process still unfolding in Iraq, Sunni...

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4479 Reasons the Iraq War was a Waste

In December 2011, President Obama paid tribute to the more than one million Americans who served in Iraq, the 4,479 fallen Americans and thousands wounded, as well as Iraqis who gave their lives. “They...

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Deadliest Iraq Attacks since US Pullout

Iraq has been free for about two months now. As idiots debate whether or not “it was worth it,” the Agency France Press (AFP) cuts to the money shot with a terse summary of the deadliest attacks in...

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Iraqi Freedom Major Freedom Bomb Summary

Tracking for your convenience the value of our sacrifices for a free Iraq! January 5, 2012 – Four bombs in mainly Shi’ite Muslim areas of Iraq kill at least 73 people with about 150 people wounded. The...

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The Bush Legacy, Iraq and Reality

There is a school of physics, or maybe science fiction, it doesn’t matter, that posits if matter and anti-matter collide it will be the end of the universe. Collapse of the time-space continuum,...

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Fmr. US Amb to Iraq Jim Jeffrey: Now Gasping for Lameness

Oh my! Retired, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey has turned into a real tiger. Now at the Washington Institute, a “think” tank, Jeffrey surveyed the current crumbling scene in Iraq from his...

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The Dumbest Article You’ll Read This Week About Iraq

Smell that? Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is in the US this week, meeting with officials in hopes of getting more US assistance, including lots of weapons he says he needs to fight terrorism, or...

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Whither Iraq? What’s Happening Had to Happen

The events unfolding now in Iraq are inevitable. They are the latest iteration of all the good we failed to do from day one of America’s ill-fated invasion in 2003. Some History Iraq before our...

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Why America Can Never Win in Iraq

I think of it now, all the time. Sometimes I think I even recognize a place on TV I had been, having spent a year in the midst of America’s Occupation in Iraq, 2009-2010. I was a State Department...

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Ten Reasons Airstrikes in Iraq are a Terrible Idea

The smell of blood is once again in the air in Washington, this week for airstrikes and other forms of violent intervention in Iraq (reference: many of the same people– McCain and Graham in particular–...

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Why Airstrikes in Iraq are a Mistake

As America goes back to war in Iraq with airstrikes, here’s what to know and do instead: – This is a slippery slope if those words have any meaning left. Airstrikes are in part to protect American...

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U.S. Bombing Own Weapons in Iraq

So about this time you’re asking yourself “How could the situation in Iraq become any more awful and absurd?” Here’s how: It looks like some of the stuff the U.S. is now blowing up in Iraq is some of...

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