This is a very dangerous tactic: With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight militants linked with Al Qaeda who have been their allies in […]
Yesterday Condi said we made 1,000s of mistakes in Iraq. Today she is backpedaling on that comment saying “don’t take it literally”. One day after Condoleezza Rice said the United States made possibly “thousands” of tactical mistakes in the war against Iraq, the secretary of state says she was speaking “figuratively, not literally.” Interesting. So […]
From the AP Iraqis Miss Third Constitution Deadline By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer The speaker of Iraq’s Parliament announced a one-day extension early Friday in talks on Iraq’s new constitution  a fourth attempt to win Sunni Arab approval for the draft. But he said that if no agreement is reached, the draft would […]
Iraq is looking more and more like a civil war zone. While the U.S. is getting ready to send 1500 more troops to help secure the vote, numerous details are coming in about the day of violence around Iraq. From theAFP New violence erupted in Iraq as clashes between supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada […]
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 […]