Iraq – Surge

SHOW ME THE STEEL – BUSH VERSUS OBAMA

JULY 26, 2011 Show Me the Steel Many ask if a president is smart. The better question: Is he a man of courage? By WILLIAM MCGURN If you’ve worked in the Bush administration, sooner or later the question comes: How smart is he? Sometimes the question is snarky. Sometimes it’s sincere. Always it comes freighted

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KIRKUK, A BUBBLING CAULDRON WITH A FORTUNE IN OIL

Posted on Tue, Jul. 19, 2011 Kirkuk is a ‘land mine’ where all sides want U.S. to stay By ROY GUTMAN McClatchy Newspapers If civil war were to resume in Iraq, a dread event that could mean the breakup of the world’s next great oil power, Kirkuk is the likely epicenter. It doesn’t take much

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PATRIOTIC WEBSITE DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE DEFENDED OUR FREEDOMS

Below is a website that was passed along to me to share with those who feel strongly about the people who serve. Because of our strong feelings of gratitude toward those who have, who do, and who will defend our freedoms, we have dedicated this page to all who sacrifice their personal security and conveniences

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THE SLAUGHTER THAT MUSLIMS COULD NOT IGNORE

MAY 3, 2011 The killing of Shiites in Iraq was Bin Laden’s undoing in the eyes of many Muslims By REUEL MARC GERECHT Like all fundamentalists, Osama bin Laden was attuned to the past. When his speeches weren’t about the economic decline of America, they recalled Islam’s classical age, especially the rise of the Prophet

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OSAMA BIN LADEN, WEAK HORSE

MAY 3, 2011 Expelled from Afghanistan, rejected in Iraq, he died as a new Arab order that has nothing to do with jihad is struggling to be born. The trail had grown cold, but the case for justice had never gone away. Osama bin Laden had warred against the United States, he had called on

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ILARIO PANTANO REFLECTS

A Decade After 9/11 by Ilario Pantano, author of Warlord:  No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy Thank you to the families, including my own. ‘Is this as close to victory as we are ever going to get?” I wondered aloud as I absorbed the headlines. I’ve been struggling with that question, and perhaps you have

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MR. PRESIDENT, STAND WITH IRAQ

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Stand With Iraq Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Baghdad last week on what was probably his last official trip to the country he helped save from devastating sectarian war. His visit was hardly a victory

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WILL MEDEAST’S UPHEAVALS PUT EXTREMISTS IN POWER?

IBD Editorials By CHUCK DEVORE • DeVore served in the California Legislature from 2004 to 2010. He is a lieutenant colonel (retired) in the U.S. Army Reserve and served as a special assistant for foreign affairs in the Reagan-era Pentagon. He studied abroad at the American University in Cairo in 1984-85. 03/24/2011First in a series

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