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 […]
This time it’s the elections law: Iraq’s presidential council rejected a measure Wednesday setting up provincial elections, sending it back to parliament in the latest setback to U.S.-backed national reconciliation efforts. The three-member panel, however, approved the 2008 budget and another law that provides limited amnesty to detainees in Iraqi custody. Those laws will take […]
Great! Why don’t the Iraqi parliament take another month off then! Iraqi legislators suspended parliamentary sessions Thursday until the end of the month because of the Muslim religious season _ the end of much-delayed efforts to pass U.S.-backed legislation aimed at achieving national reconciliation this year. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, meanwhile, welcomed a report from […]
That is what the Iraq Study Group is now calling Bush’s failed war in Iraq. The United States should begin to withdraw its forces from combat in Iraq and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to prevent “a slide toward chaos” in the country, a high-level panel recommended on Wednesday. The bipartisan Iraq […]
Here is the reason why we won’t be able to help Israel out militarily – we can’t. Look at a couple of the stories today. First from Iraq: A suicide bomber pulled his van into a busy market on Tuesday, lured labourers with job offers and blew himself up, killing scores in one of the […]
So I guess the Iraqis are now on the side of the Democrats when it comes to the problems in Iraq: THE Iraqi Government will announce a sweeping peace plan as early as Sunday in a last-ditch effort to end the Sunni insurgency that has taken the country to the brink of civil war. The […]