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April 5: The Week in Review

April 5, 2008

The week began with Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi leader, still making decisions on his own, something we have been waiting for him to do.  He proved in less than a week that he isn’t capable.  So, after he sent the Iraqi “army” into Basara to take on the al-Sadr Madhi militia and after a few hundred deaths, a [...]

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Bombs Drop on Basara Today, Whose Surge is Working?

April 3, 2008

Basara… remember Basara?  That was the once semi-peaceful area in southern Iraq, so peaceful in fact that U.K. was withdrawing troops from the front lines.  And, Baghdad… remember Baghdad?  The capital of Iraq, our $700 million (and still counting) half completed U.S. Embassy, and the precious Green Zone.
And, do we all remember how well the [...]

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