Again – April Fool’s: The Iranian general who helped broker an end to nearly a week of fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shiite Muslim militiamen in southern Iraq is an unlikely peacemaker. Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, who helped U.S.-backed Iraqi leaders negotiate a deal with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr to stop the […]
He says they aren’t making “significant progress”: Iraqi leaders have failed to take advantage of a reduction in violence to make adequate progress toward resolving their political differences, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday. Petraeus, who is preparing to testify to Congress next month on the Iraq war, said […]
You know things are really bad in Iraq when Rumsfeld goes there and can’t even find anything good to say about the situation: “We’re at a point now when the security situation depends as much on the reconciliation process and on the strengthening of (government) ministries,” Rumsfeld told reporters. “Success in those areas will determine […]
So what is Bush’s definition of “democracy in the Middle East”? Would it involve listening to the leaders of the country we now occupy? Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Iraqi leaders, meeting at a reconciliation conference in Cairo, urged an end to violence in the country and demanded a timetable for the withdrawal of coalition troops […]
The following is an article that appeared today inAl Jazeera magazine which was original written by the Guardian. It seems to give a very accurate portrayal of what is going on in Iraq and the reasoning for our being there. Not “liberationâ€ÂÂ- An occupation The U.S. needs to put an immediate end to this […]
Via the Associated Press Iraqi Parliament Delays Constitution Vote By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer In another dramatic last-minute standoff, Iraqi leaders late Monday put off a vote on a draft constitution, adjourning Parliament at a midnight deadline in a bid for more time to try to win over the Sunni Arab minority whose support […]