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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!BAGHDAD (July 3) -- Vice President Joe Biden landed Saturday on what appeared to be a dual mission in Baghdad: to visit U.S. troops during the July Fourth weekend and coax Iraqi leaders into ending their government impasse. Top Obama administration officials have been reluctant to visit Iraq since its deadlocked March election failed to produce a clear winner. Biden's trip may signal the U.S. is stepping up its efforts to hammer out an agreement among Iraqi political rivals and get a new government in place as soon as possible. Biden is the White House's point man on Iraq issues, and was ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has endorsed calls for a vote recount in the country's parliamentary election, as the latest results show his opponent with a slight lead, the New York Times reports. President Jalal Talabani has also called for a recount, and each of the four political coalitions in the country have alleged widespread fraud and complained about the way the votes were tallied. ...
Yesterday, I wrote about how the Pentagon claimed that a sure sign that the Iraq troop "surge" had worked was that the Mahdi Army had started fighting again and that the Iraqi Army and police had gone out to battle them. In Orwellian parlance this theory can be summed up in the slogan "War is Peace." But the larger point was that, hey, we've trained the Iraqi army so well that they can now go out and restore order all by themselves. Well, as tortured as the logic of the Pentagon claim sounded yesterday, today we learn that particulars of the statement, let alone its conclusion, are not even ...
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