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THE OTHER WAR
As the “surge” appears to be paying dividends in Iraq, military and civilian analysts alike are beginning to wonder: is “The Other War,” Afghanistan, at the breaking point? Only weeks ago, the Indian Embassy in Kabul was reported blown up by a suicide car bomber. 41 were killed instantly, another 130 injured - the deadliest such incident since the Oct. 2001 invasion.
“It is going to take forty years”: Bush angry, defiant on Iraq
The president acknowledged that “going to war was a decision based on his personal instinct and not on any long-range strategy for the Middle East,” and stated that “I don’t care if it created more enemies.”
Five years of war: losing what was never ours
Today marks five years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. In five years, Iraq has yet to embrace the democracy we were told would follow within months of our arrival. In five years, more than 2 million Iraqi innocents have fled, some coming home to find bullets wrapped in bloody cloth on the [...]
U.S. Out of Iraq? Don’t count on it with a Vatican City-sized embassy in Baghdad
Although the debate over the extent to which the United States will exert influence in Iraq following President Bush’s departure continues to rage, the construction of a massive U.S. embassy in Baghdad seems to indicate that, internally at least, the government has made up its mind. The complex, which sits upon a heavily-fortified 104 acres [...]
Independent study finds 935 lies led up to Iraq war
A study by the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism released on Tuesday, Jan. 22 counted 935 public false statements made by the Bush administration in the two-year run-up to the invasion of Iraq. White House spokesman Scott Stanzel refused to comment on the study, but did say that “the [...]
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