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Nouri al-Maliki wants US troops out of Iraq. He leads a Shiite coalition comprised of religious parties, including his own Dawa party, which is committed to making Iraq into a Shiite Islamic state. Like his coalition partners, al-Maliki views Iraq’s Sunnis with deep—and justifiable—suspicion. For four years after Saddam’s fall, Iraqi Sunnis supported an insurgency that branded Shiites as apostates deserving death. Now the Sunnis have thrown their support behind the Awakening, which is portrayed by American politicians, including Senator McCain, as a group of patriotic Iraqis engaged in the fight against al-Qaeda. Iraq’s Shiite leaders see the Awakening as a Baathist-led organization that rejects Iraq’s new Shiite-led order—an accurate description.

Tags: Al Qaeda, Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, Shiite, Sunni by mike
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The death toll is rising as fighting continues in the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia, with the latest reports saying that more than 1,500 lives have been lost and at least two Russian fighter jets shot down … the Georgian military commander said on Saturday that his country will recall all of its 2,000 soldiers from Iraq to join the fighting at home … A US military spokesman said the departure of the Georgian contingent – the third largest contributor to international forces after the US and Britain – will have “some impact” in the near term but no significant long-term effect on Iraq’s security.

Tags: Georgia, Iraq, Russia, war by mike
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The same Government lab where the anthrax attacks themselves came from was the same place where the false reports originated that blamed those attacks on Iraq … whoever perpetrated the attacks wanted the public to believe they were sent by foreign Muslims … the anthrax attacks didn’t come from Iraq or any foreign government at all. It came from our own Government’s scientist, from the top Army bioweapons research laboratory. More significantly, the false reports linking anthrax to Iraq also came from the U.S. Government.

Tags: ABC News, anthrax, bioweapons, Bruce Ivins, conspiracy, false flag, Iraq, Joseph Goebbels, politics, propaganda, terror, treason by mike
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For all the talk of America’s growing reliance on computers, advanced sensors, and stealth technology to prevail in warfare, it has been oil above all that gave the US military its capacity to “project power” onto distant battlefields like Iraq and Afghanistan. Every Humvee, tank, helicopter, and jet fighter requires its daily ration of petroleum, without which America’s technology-driven military would be forced to abandon the battlefield. No surprise, then, that the US Department of Defense is the world’s single-biggest consumer of petroleum … The average GI in Iraq now uses about seven times as much oil per day as GIs did in the first Gulf War less than two decades ago. And every sign indicates that the same ratio of increase will apply to coming conflicts; that the daily cost of fighting will skyrocket; and that the Pentagon’s capacity to shoulder multiple foreign military burdens will unravel. Thus are superpowers undone.

Tags: Afghanistan, geopolitics, Gulf War, Iraq, oil, Pentagon, United States, US by mike
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“I can confirm that we conducted a strike in Sadr City this morning,” a US military spokesman told AFP. “The targets were known criminal elements. Battle damage assessment is currently ongoing.” However, witnesses and an AFP reporter at the scene said the main Al-Sadr hospital had been badly damaged and a fleet of ambulances were destroyed.

Tags: Baghdad, Iraq by mike
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The Americans say the militias have been using trained pigeons to signal the presence of American and Iraqi troops. The Iraqis wanted to know if they could fire on the pigeon keepers as American troops have done during the bitter fighting here. As long as the Iraqis determined that the flocks of birds were not a coincidence, the Americans advised, the pigeon keepers were fair game.

Tags: Baghdad, Iraq, pigeon by mike
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