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Juan Cole

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Mixed Story Im Just Appalled By

Mixed Story Im Just Appalled By

Juan Cole

A Mixed Story I’m just appalled by the cheerleading tone of US news coverage of the so-called elections in Iraq on Sunday. I said on television last week that this event is a “political earthquake” and “a historical first step” for Iraq. It is an event of the utmost importance, for Iraq, the Middle East, […]

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Election Update At Little After Noon

Election Update At Little After Noon

Juan Cole

Election Update At a little after noon EST, Jane Arraf on CNN is reporting about 30 percent turnout in Baqubah, a mixed Sunni-Shiite city to the northeast of Baghdad. It seems clear that the turnout was largely Shiite. Although the violence and attacks have been extensive and took place all over the country, the security […]

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Dozens Killed In Election Day

Dozens Killed In Election Day

Juan Cole

Dozens Killed in Election Day Guerrilla Campaign Guerrillas launched mortar and suicide bomb attacks at polling stations throughout Iraq on Sunday as thousands of Iraqis headed to the polls. As many as 27 were dead by 1 pm Iraqi time, with several times that wounded. Explosions rocked West, South and East Baghdad, as well as […]

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Zogby 9 Of Sunnis Will Vote Stong

Zogby 9 Of Sunnis Will Vote Stong

Juan Cole

Zogby: 9% of Sunnis Will Vote Stong Majority of Iraqis Wants US Out Borzou Daragahi of AP reports an Iraqi poll that shows that the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance coalition will do best in Sunday’s election, but won’t get a majority. The Iraqiya list of interim PM Iyad Allawi comes in second. The united Kurdish […]

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15 Iraqis Killed In Attacks Focusing

15 Iraqis Killed In Attacks Focusing

Juan Cole

15 Iraqis Killed in Attacks Focusing on Polling Places Ash-Sharq al-Awsat reports that guerrillas killed 15 Iraqis on Thursday and blew up six polling sites, continuing their campaign to prevent successfull elections on Sunday. One such attack involved a clash with the new Iraqi army, and when the smoke cleared 11 Iraqis and one US […]

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Feith Resigns Under Pressure Of

Feith Resigns Under Pressure Of

Juan Cole

Feith Resigns Under Pressure of Investigations Douglas Feith, the number three man at the Pentagon who went there from the pro-Likud Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and the Project for a New American Century, will leave the Pentagon as of this summer. Feith’s office is the subject of an FBI investigation as well […]

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37 Us Troops Dead Other Americans

37 Us Troops Dead Other Americans

Juan Cole

37 US Troops Dead, Other Americans Wounded Large numbers of Iraqis Killed, Wounded by Car Bombs at Polling Stations, Party HQs AP reports the worst news the US has had in Iraq ever: A U.S. helicopter crashed in a desert sandstorm in the early morning darkness yesterday, killing the 30 Marines and one Navy sailor […]

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Speech Bush Should Have Given This Is

Speech Bush Should Have Given This Is

Juan Cole

The Speech Bush Should have Given This is the speech that I wish President Bush had given in fall, 2002, as he was trying to convince Congress to give him the authority to go to war against Iraq. My fellow Americans: I want us to go to war against Iraq. But I want us to […]

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Advice For Candidates Do Not Reveal

Advice For Candidates Do Not Reveal

Juan Cole

Advice for Candidates: ‘Do not Reveal your Identity . . . Stay Home as Much as Possible ‘ Jack Fairweather reports for the Telegraph from Baghdad on a meeting held by the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) that instructs candidates on how to survive the elections. He writes: “The instructions are simple […]

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