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Last U.S. Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq, but War Is Not Over
By David Wood - Politics DailyFifty thousand armed U.S. military personnel are deployed in Iraq today, having waved goodbye to the last U.S. "combat'' brigade, the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, which rolled south and crossed into Kuwait on Thursday morning. The withdrawal satisfied agreements reached with Baghdad during the Bush administration for a gradual wind-down of the U.S. military role in Iraq after 90 months of bloody conflict. And it fulfilled President Obama's campaign pledge to bring the troops home. Almost. U.S. special operations teams are working with Iraqi commandos on high-risk ...
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs Bashes 'Liberal Naysayers' who Fault Obama
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn an interview published Tuesday in the Hill newspaper, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs let rip his frustration at "liberal naysayers" who have criticized President Obama's policies as being insufficiently left wing. "I hear these people saying he's like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested," Gibbs said. "I mean, it's crazy." The Obama administration has been faulted by the left for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a lack of a public option in the health care reform package, not yet having closed the prison at Guantanamo Bay, a financial regulation reform bill ...
Obama: Iraq Troop Drawdown Is on Schedule, 'as Promised'
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn a speech to the Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta on Monday, President Barack Obama sought to reassure an increasingly skeptical American public that he is firmly in control of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and that the United States' military commitment in those regions is not indefinite. As evidence, the president reminded the audience of a promise made at the start of his presidency to end the American military combat presence in Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010 -- a pledge he is on track to fulfill. "By the end of this month, we'll have brought more than 90,000 of our troops home from Iraq ...
U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Iraq Does Not End Humanitarian Obligation
By Cardinal Theodore McCarrick - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama reiterated recently that most U.S. troops will soon be departing Iraq, leaving about 50,000 Americans to help maintain the peace and support the Iraqi army and police force. This is good news for our American servicemen, their families and the nation. But this departure should not be accompanied by a withdrawal of our support for the Iraqi people, particularly for the millions of displaced Iraqis who continue to live in limbo both inside Iraq and in neighboring countries. During a recent mission to observe the situation of the Iraqi displaced, this reality became ...
Army: Alleged Wikileaker Swiped Thousands of Files
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 6) -- The Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking a classified video of a U.S. helicopter strike in Iraq to a whistle-blower website also allegedly stole State Department cables and Defense Department PowerPoints, according to criminal charges released today. Pfc. Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Md., was charged with 12 counts of illegally transferring classified data onto his personal computer and giving it to an unauthorized source. The soldier, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division in Iraq, was arrested May 26 and is being held in detention ...
Opinion: Seven Years Later, Iraq War Bearing Fruit
By not in system - AOL News(March 19) -- Less than two weeks ago, 12 million Iraqis went to the polls to vote for a new parliament. The results are still trickling in, and the process of choosing a new president, prime minister and cabinet may well take months. In haste to report on a slowly developing story and befuddled by the chaos that is Iraqracy, some observers are rushing to declare the vote a potentially fatal blow to hopes for success in Iraq. There is no doubt that progress in Iraq remains, as Gen. David Petraeus constantly points out, fragile and reversible. Bad outcomes from this election that could ...
The Iraq War: Suddenly, It's Not So Bad After All
By Peter Wehner - Politics DailyThat sound you hear is of Conventional Wisdom cracking on the Iraq war. A few weeks ago Vice President Biden stated that Iraq "could be one of the great achievements of this administration." (That's right; one of the greatest achievements of the Obama administration.) Then last week came the much-commented upon Newsweek cover story, which declared that "something that looks mighty like democracy is emerging in Iraq. And while it may not be a beacon of inspiration to the region, it most certainly is a watershed event that could come to represent a whole new era in the history of the massively ...
Army Suicides Grow, but This Soldier Was Saved
By David Wood - Politics DailyOn a dusty afternoon in a squalid U.S. Army base in eastern Baghdad, the world seemed to cave in on Spec. Joe Sanders. On daily patrols, soldiers around him were being killed and grievously wounded by improvised roadside bombs. The sweltering August heat and stink of Baghdad were oppressive. He was thousands of miles from home. And he had just learned that his wife -- his lifeline to the sane, normal world -- wanted a divorce. Alone in his barracks room at Forward Operating Base Rustamiyah, Sanders, a soft-spoken young man with a pleasant demeanor, seized his M-4 carbine, put the barrel under ...
Facing Inquiry, Gordon Brown Defends Decision to Invade Iraq
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who headed the British treasury at the start of the Iraq war, said Friday that joining the United States in the invasion "was the right decision and it was for the right reasons," CNN reports. Brown, facing the Iraq War Inquiry for the first time, acknowledged that he had not been present at a number of key meetings held by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair in the build-up to the war, but insisted that he was kept fully informed. "My role in this was, first of all as chancellor of the exchequer, to make sure that the funding was there for what we had to ...
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