Newfound Iraqi confidence pleases, worries US
2008-07-13 16:49:00 BAGHDAD (AP) - Wajih Hameed is an Iraqi general with an attitude. His swagger sometimes grates on American officers. But Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond sees it as a hopeful sign the Iraqi army - generals and soldiers alike - has reached a new level of self-confidence, pointing the way toward truly independent Iraqi forces and, eventually, ...
By: TexasFred's
[Stupid] ?aaaaand turning this corner, we have a senior Iraqi government of
2008-04-29 15:38:00 USA Today
In Baghdad, Rice Praises Iraqi Government Progress
2008-04-21 04:03:00 BAGHDAD - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, making an unannounced stop in Baghdad on Sunday, praised the Iraqi governments decision to take on Shiite militia members in Basra and in Baghdad and painted an upbeat picture of the Iraqi governments
By: Get rich
In Baghdad, Rice Praises Iraqi Government Progress
2008-04-21 04:03:00 BAGHDAD - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, making an unannounced stop in Baghdad on Sunday, praised the Iraqi governments decision to take on Shiite militia members in Basra and in Baghdad and painted an upbeat picture of the Iraqi governments
By: Get rich
Shiite cleric tells followers to defy Iraqi government
2008-03-29 21:27:00 BAGHDAD (AP) - Anti-American Shiite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers Saturday to defy government orders to surrender their weapons, as U.S. jets struck Shiite extremists near Basra to bolster a faltering Iraqi offensive against
By: Get rich
Iraqi Government Taking on Mahdi Army
2008-03-27 21:56:00 Fighting has erupted in Iraq between government forces and Moqtaqa al-Sadr's Mahdi Army as government forces attempt to wrest control of Basra away from al-Sadr. Clashes have spread to Baghdad and other cities, and large street protests against the government are occurring in Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad sympathetic to al-Sadr. A weekend-long curfew - really a lockdown - has been ordered in Baghdad in an effort to prevent violence from escalating further there. Street battles that started Tuesday in Basra and Sadr City have spread to several other neighborhoods and southern cities, leaving more than 200 dead, including civilians, Iraqi troops and militants. That three-day figure was a rough estimate provided by police and hospital officials who could not give a more specific breakdown. Iraqi officials reported 17 more people killed in overnight clashes in Sadr City, raising the total there to 40. The death toll in the Shiite city of Hillah, 60 miles south of Baghdad, also r...
By: Coldheartedtruth
Flood of Returning Refugees Overwhelms Iraqi Government
2007-12-05 16:13:00 The positive news coming out of Iraq is encouraging Iraqi refugees to return to their homes. An estimated 25,000 Iraqis have come back since mid-September and the Iraqi government is yelling, “King’s X! King’s X! King’s X!” Ok, they didn’t really say that. That’s what my high school gym coach would say if he was running Iraq right now though: “In reality, the ministry cannot absorb a return on that (large) scale,” Iraqi Migration Minister Abdul-Samad Rahman told a news conference. “If the influx is huge, then neither the ministry nor the entire government can handle it.” At the same time, he appeared to take issue with U.S. and U.N. assertions that security remains too fragile for Iraqis to come home in big numbers. “I am not trying to defend the government or lure Iraqi families to come back, but we must tell the truth: the security situation is 90 percent stable,” Rahman said. “The rate at whic...
Republican Wakes Up: Iraqi Government Needs No More Money
2007-11-16 06:39:00 I always liked Lindsey Graham, even when he endorsed the neofascist principles of the Republican party.He's right here, there needs to be political change in Iraq, and if we're going to keep our troops there, then dammit, we're going to push this country's government to get their damn act together.
By: Nicks Notes
Iraqis to Pay China $100 Million for Weapons for Police
2007-10-04 16:44:00 Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the material and is too slow to deliver arms shipments, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said yesterday. The China deal, not previously made public, has alarmed military analysts who note that Iraq’s ...
By: The Hot Joints
Iraq?s Maliki to meet Bush in New York
2007-09-14 19:41:00 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will meet U.S. President George W. Bush in New York this month on the sidelines of a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, an Iraqi official said on Friday. The talks will follow a slew of reports and testimony in Washington this week about Iraq, including an announcement ...
By: The Hot Joints
GAO Report: Iraqi government has failed to meet most benchmarks
2007-09-05 00:59:00 A new General Accountability Office report sent Congress today concluded that the Iraqi government has failed to meet 11 of the 18 benchmarks established by Congress in conjunction with the authorization of President Bush?s troop surge in January. The report concluded that the Iraqi government has fully met only three of the legislative, security, and economic benchmarks. The GAO concluded that four other benchmarks have been partially met, and the rest had not been met.
Corruption Is 'Norm' Within Iraqi Government
2007-09-03 17:43:00 AlterNet [..] according to the working draft of a secret document prepared by the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the Maliki government has failed in one significant area: corruption. Maliki's government is "not capable of even rudimentary enforcement of anticorruption laws," the report says, and, perhaps worse, the report notes that Maliki's office has impeded investigations of fraud and crime within the government. The draft -- over 70 pages long -- was obtained by The Nation, and it reviews the work (or attempted work) of the Commission on Public Integrity (CPI), an independent Iraqi institution, and other anticorruption agencies within the Iraqi government. Labeled "SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED/Not for distribution to personnel outside of the US Embassy in Baghdad," the study details a situation in which there is little, if any, prosecution of government theft and sleaze. Moreover, it concludes that corruption is "the norm in many ministries." The report depicts the Iraqi government...
Bush Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq
2007-09-03 16:04:00 AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) - President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq on Monday, using the war zone as a backdrop to argue his case that the buildup of U.S. troops is helping stabilizing the nation. The president secretly flew 11 hours to Iraq as a showdown nears with Congress over whether his decision ...
By: The Hot Joints
Sadr May Revoke ?Freeze? on Militia
2007-08-31 19:55:00 Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told his followers Thursday that he would rescind his order “freezing” the operations of his powerful militia if military raids on his offices did not cease in the next few days, according to officials of Sadr’s organization. Sadr’s message came the day after he issued a public statement to his Mahdi ...
By: The Hot Joints
Report Raises Strong Doubt About Iraqi Government
2007-08-24 03:33:00 The assessment, known as the National Intelligence Estimate, casts strong doubts on the viability of the Bush administration strategy in Iraq.
By: Get rich
Report Raises Strong Doubt About Iraqi Government
2007-08-24 03:33:00 The assessment, known as the National Intelligence Estimate, casts strong doubts on the viability of the Bush administration strategy in Iraq.
By: Get rich
Report Finds Iraqi Government Precarious
2007-08-23 22:46:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Iraqi government will become more precarious over the next six to 12 months and its security forces have not improved enough to operate without outside help, U.S. spy agencies conclude in a new assessment of the country’s political and military fortunes. Despite some uneven improvements, the analysts concluded that the level of ...
By: TexasFred's
That ?Bad? Iraqi Government
2007-08-23 01:23:00 Other then the violence, what is the difference between the Iraqi gov’t and ours? They both are on break during the hottest time of the year, they bother have cantankerous rivalries and partisan in-fighting, and neither seem to be getting all that much of anything done. Yet, Democrats here complain about the Iraqi government’s inability to ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Soldier?s Op-Ed: The War as We Saw It
2007-08-22 18:37:00 VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over ...
By: The Hot Joints
Bush Says Iraqi Government Must Do More
2007-08-22 06:42:00 MONTEBELLO, Quebec (AP) - President Bush offered a tepid endorsement of the Iraqi government on Tuesday, yet brushed off a Democratic senator’s call for the ouster of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Bush acknowledged his frustration with Iraqi leaders’ inability to bridge political divisions, but he said only the Iraqi people can decide whether to sideline ...
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Sunni front quits Iraqi government
2007-08-01 22:38:00 Iraq's main Sunni Arab political coalition announced on Wednesday that it was pulling out of the Shia-led national unity government, in what may become a significant blow to hopes for Sunni-Shia reconciliation.
By: Get rich
Sunni front quits Iraqi government
2007-08-01 22:38:00 Iraq's main Sunni Arab political coalition announced on Wednesday that it was pulling out of the Shia-led national unity government, in what may become a significant blow to hopes for Sunni-Shia reconciliation.
By: Get rich
Sunni Arab Bloc Quits Iraqi Government
2007-08-01 18:38:00 BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq’s largest Sunni Arab political bloc announced its withdrawal from the government Wednesday, undermining efforts to seek reconciliation among the country’s rival factions, and two bombing attacks in Baghdad killed at least 67 people. In one attack, 50 people were killed and 60 wounded when a suicide attacker exploded a fuel truck near ...
By: TexasFred's
Is the Iraqi government disintegrating?
2007-07-30 18:01:00 The Iraq government may well collapse before it can meet the benchmarks the Bush Administration is waiting so patiently for. Reports the Christian Science Monitor in Iraqi government in deepest crisis: Iraq is in the throes of its worst political crisis since the fall of Saddam Hussein with the new democratic system, based on national consensus among ...
By: Carson's Post
Iraqi Government Suggests Arming Citizens
2007-07-09 17:07:00 Shiite and Sunni politicians are calling on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves. I’m a little confused about this article. I thought every adult male in Iraq had at least one weapon. I also thought that the coalition forces and Iraqi military and police, had routinely been taking weapons out of homes. ...
By: Webloggin
Gates Pushes Iraqi Government Reconciliation
2007-06-05 19:29:00 On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave the Iraqi government a gentle nudge to move faster toward political reconciliation. Gates told reporters during a joint news conference with Kyrgyz... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The Iraqi Government Will Fail
2007-05-05 16:23:00 I hate to say that- I would love for the puppet Iraqi government installed by Bush's corrupt and inept administrators to somehow magically work, putting aside the difference that have kept Muslim societies bifurcated for generations. I doubt that this will happen, for the following reasons;1. The fractious Iraqi parliament is taking a long summer break, which will lead to breaking U.S. "benchmarks" and thus losing the confidence of the American public and the Democratic leadership. Leaders on both sides of the aisle are already pissed;?That is not acceptable,? Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) said. ?An action of that consequence would send a very bad signal to the world that they don?t have the resolve that matches the resolve of the brave troops that are fighting in the battle today.? Added Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), ?I certainly hope they?re not going to take any sort of recess when the question is whether they?re going to make any progress.?2. The factions within the government and out...
By: Mike Kuykendall
Cenk Uygur: The Iraqi Government Gets Two Month Vacation While
2007-05-05 00:05:00 Author: Cenk Uygurvia huffingtonpost.comHere's an article explaining how the Iraqi parliament plans to take two months off. This is beyond outrageous. How are you going to explain to the families of soldiers and Marines that died in those two months that their sons and daughters died while the Iraqis weren't even trying to make peace?Can our troops get the same two month vacation that the Iraqi government gets? It only seems fair. Maybe the Democrats should include this proposal in the next funding bill.Watch The Young TurksView Original ArticleTechnorati Tags: Iraq, US
By: Munaeem's Blog
Al-Sadr's political movement to leave Iraqi government
2007-04-16 10:07:00 Baghdad, April 16: The political movement of US critic, Shia cleric and militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr Monday said its six ministers would leave the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
By: newkerala.com
Iraqi Government Reclassifies Its Citizens To Count As 1/5th An American Or
2007-02-14 01:06:04 (Baghdad, Iraq) The exploding amount of violence in Iraq and the inability of the Iraqi forces to stop it, has forced the Iraqi government to reach deep into its bag of tricks. Their first idea was to bring Saddam back as a Dirty Harry type enforcer. But after that idea tested poorly with focus groups, they came up with a winner. Starting today, the Iraqi government will reclassify its citizens to count as 1/5th a person or American, the current human being standard of the world.
By: The Lost News
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