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Juan Cole

Iraq War
Iraqi Public Wants Us Troops Out Within

Iraqi Public Wants Us Troops Out Within

Juan Cole

Iraqi Public Wants US Troops Out within a Year Sunni Parliamentarian Accused of Links to Bombers A poll of Iraqis commission by USA Today and several other news organizations revealed that: “In all, 83% of Shiites and 97% of Sunni Arabs oppose the presence of coalition forces in Iraq; 75% of Kurds support them. By […]

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March 19 2003 Bushs Address On Iraq

March 19 2003 Bushs Address On Iraq

Juan Cole

March 19, 2003: Bush’s Address on Iraq What struck me in looking again at Bush’s address to the American public late on March 19, 2003, is how obviously mendacious it was. That dishonest and propagandistic character is even more apparent with the passage of time. The accusation that Iraq was planning to attack anyone in […]

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Renewed Us Anti War Protests Sunday Al

Renewed Us Anti War Protests Sunday Al

Juan Cole

Renewed US Anti-War Protests Sunday; Gates: Surge is to Buy Time for Reconciliation; Al-Maliki Cabinet Shuffle Postponed Thousands of antiwar demonstrators came out again on Sunday. Some cities , such as San Francisco, Seattle, and Minneapolis, had especially vigorous protests. US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revealed on Sunday that the surge of US troops […]

Iraq War
Iraq Friday Sermons On Surge Usg Open

Iraq Friday Sermons On Surge Usg Open

Juan Cole

Iraq Friday Sermons on ‘Surge’ The USG Open Source Center translates and paraphrases Iraqi Friday prayers sermons, some of which speak of the ongoing “Surge.” Iraqi Friday Sermons for 16 Mar Discuss Security Plan, Political ProcessIraq– OSC SummarySunday, March 18, 2007 Major Iraqi television channels – Baghdad Al-Iraqiyah, Baghdad Baghdad Satellite Channel, Baghdad Al-Sharqiyah, Baghdad […]

Iraq War
Kahl Us Military And Counter Insurgency

Kahl Us Military And Counter Insurgency

Juan Cole

Kahl: The US Military and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq Professor Colin Kahl of the Political Science Department at the University of Minnesota shared the thoughts below on an email listserv and I thought them clear, concise and cogent and asked for permission to reprint here–which he kindly granted. There is a lot of confusion about precisely […]

Iraq War
6 Us Troops Killed 8 Injured Or

6 Us Troops Killed 8 Injured Or

Juan Cole

6 US Troops Killed, 8 Injured or Sickened Chlorine Poison Gas attacks Kill 8, Sicken 350 Thousands Protest War on 4th Anniversary 6 US troops were announced killed on Saturday. Guerrillas killed 4 with a roadside bomb in west Baghdad, wounding one other and then shooting and injuring a sixth. Another 6 US troops were […]

Iraq War
Giving Aid And Comfort To Enemy Plame

Giving Aid And Comfort To Enemy Plame

Juan Cole

Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy: the Plame Affair Valerie Plame Wilson, whose career Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney wanted destroyed in a fit of pique, was finally allowed to testify before Congress on Friday. Some in the blogosphere are arguing that the outing of Plame Wilson was an impeachable offense. Defenders […]

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Aipac Cool To Cheney Responding To This

Aipac Cool To Cheney Responding To This

Juan Cole

AIPAC Cool to Cheney Responding to this IC posting, Ron Kampea kindly writes: I was one of the reporters noting the relatively cool reception for Cheney’s remarks, an impression I confirmed later in extensive conversations at the conference. (Similar accounts appeared in Ha’aretz, the Forward and the Jerusalem Post.) There were whole chunks of the […]

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16000 Detainees In Coalition Hands

16000 Detainees In Coalition Hands

Juan Cole

16,000 Detainees in Coalition Hands Iraqi Shiites attempt to Regroup 11 detainees in a British jail in south Iraq exchanged clothing with their visitors and escaped. Ed Wong at NYT has an excellent piece on Iranian economic relations with Iraq. Every politician who talks about “limiting Iranian influence” in Iraq should read this article first. […]

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