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A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi Army patrol killed five Iraqi soldiers Friday in the northern town of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
It was the second lethal attack on an army convoy in northern Iraq in two days. At around midnight Wednesday, two roadside bombs hit a patrol in a [...]

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Gunmen have killed a member of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s political party in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police officials said Tuesday.
Subhi Hassan, who handles political relations for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and a bodyguard were killed Monday after unidentified gunmen chased down their car after it passed through [...]

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A female suicide bomber killed at least 35 people, many of them Iranian pilgrims, and wounded scores more when she blew herself up amid a crowd of Shia worshippers outside a shrine in Baghdad today.
The attack was the second major bombing since US forces came under Iraqi Government authority on January 1. It also occurred [...]

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tim says, “the war is over and coalition forces have won.”
Victory!
No war should be forgotten.

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Stay a little longer

Although the recently-signed Status of Forces Agreement authorises US troops to remain in Iraq for a while, it did not address what remains of the “coalition of the willing”. Australia now has permission to retain troops until the end of June 2009. The account of this agreement’s passage through the Iraqi parliament is intriguing – [...]

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

It is pleasing that the 1,000th post on this blog is about political progress in Iraq (although it’s a dreadful shame that the news is overshadowed by events in India). While today’s achievement is not quite a match for this fictional New York Times headline, it’s still a step in the right direction:
With a substantial [...]

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Things I learned today from Andrew Bolt

Last November, the war in Iraq had been won (for a short time, anyway). Now, Iraq only “seems won”. Also, we (i.e., Australia, the United States, NATO, etc.) need an ever-expanding military so that we can “send lots more troops” to all of the places we are fighting wars.
Teh Left is stupid. Also, the smartest [...]

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Shhh, don’t tell Andrew

… he’s a simple sort of bloke, and he’s just back from a long holiday. Don’t go saying too much about this notion that Teh Surge != Victory!
Next thing you know, people will be suggesting that it’s unfair to call anyone who opposed the occupation of Iraq a staunch supporter of Saddam Hussein.

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Teh Surge != Victory!

Over at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Dan Froomkin has written a good analysis of what is missing from the “the surge has worked” perspective on Iraq. Froomkin discusses the argument about the surge made by Peter Galbraith. Some of the key points in Froomkin’s piece:
Certainly the surge has been accompanied by a dramatic and [...]

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Victory!

Name one person who has defined it. Just one.

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