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Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq (www.mcclatchydc.com)
Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over... More
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Bush's Reversal on Iraq Deadline Gives Obama Flexibility (www.washingtonpost.com)
By agreeing to a fixed deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, President Bush contradicted years of promises that he would never agree to anything but a "conditions-based" plan for... More
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Bringing the horrors of war home to the United States (www.dailystar.com.lb)
Artist Jim Lommasson hates war. His exhibit of 1,500 photographs, taken by soldiers who served in Iraq, brings the war home to the United States, in a way he hopes will help bring it to an end. "It's... More
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Iraqi Forces, Government Grow More Confident, Colonel Says (www.defenselink.mil)
After a year of operating in two of Baghdad’s most historically violent districts, coalition forces are beginning to see the effects of a more confident Iraqi government and Iraqi security force, a... More
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Cartwright: Afghanistan war tougher than Iraq (www.militarytimes.com)
The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs warned Monday that U.S. troops and their families should not expect to relax if operations in Iraq wrap up soon. Marine Gen. James Cartwright, speaking Monday... More
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Deal on Iraq Withdrawal Poses a Pentagon Challenge (www.time.com)
The Pentagon, after pushing for nearly a year for new rules governing the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, is already back-pedaling. On the one hand, the agreement between the Bush Administration and... More
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Mullen: Exit dates in Iraq deal not a problem (www.militarytimes.com)
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs confirmed Monday that the new U.S. agreement with Iraq calls for all U.S. troops to be completely out of Iraq by the end of 2011 and that he is “comfortable” with... More
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Militants Turn to Small Bombs in Iraq Attacks (www.nytimes.com)
They are usually no bigger than a man’s fist and attached to a magnet or a strip of gummy adhesive — thus the name “obwah lasica” in Arabic, or “sticky bomb.” Light, portable and easy... More
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Violence Rises In Iraq, But How Bad Is It? (www.npr.org)
In Iraq, there's been an upsurge in violence in the past 10 days or so, mainly in the form of bombing attacks on police patrols and civilians. But it's difficult to gauge how serious the upsurge... More
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The Army under Obama (www.armytimes.com)
President-elect Barack Obama, who has said he knows he must earn the military’s respect, now faces delivering on some of his promises, especially ending the war in Iraq without leaving chaos behind... More
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