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[KurdNet News ekurd.net] As long as Iraq abides by constitution we're Iraqis: Kurdistan ...: But unfortunately the partnership between the Kurds and the Arabs has not been working, they have not allowed for the opportunity for this partnership to work since the establishment of the Iraqi state at that time, until 1991 when the Kurdish people had their glorious uprising and also the political and international equations and the interest of the international community has changed. Since the uprising in 1991, the situation has changed and the Kurds have a happy opportunity to have their own space and the ability to govern themselves.

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] Once More, Peter Galbraith Fails to Clear His Name « Iraq and Gulf ...: Among these measures was the idea of a general US withdrawal from Iraq, with the exception of a “small over the horizon force in Kurdistan”, explained with reference to the claim that “the Kurds are among the most pro-American people in the world and would welcome a US military presence, not the least because it would help protect them from Arab Iraqis who resent their close cooperation with the US during the 2003 War and thereafter.” Coincidentally, of course, that small American military force would also protect Galbraith’s “business interests” and the Tawke oilfield to which these interests relate. But Galbraith did not tell Congress that, did he?

[The Agonist blogs] Iraq & Afghanistan Update /Jan 27 | The Agonist: Colonel Wayne Shanks, a spokesman for the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), tells TomDispatch that there are, at present, nearly 400 U.S. and coalition bases in Afghanistan, including camps, forward operating bases, and combat outposts. In addition, there are at least 300 Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP) bases, most of them built, maintained, or supported by the U.S. A small number of the coalition sites are mega-bases like Kandahar Airfield, which boasts one of the busiest runways in the world, and Bagram Air Base, a former Soviet facility that received a makeover, complete with Burger King and Popeyes outlets, and now serves more than 20,000 U.S. troops, in addition to thousands of coalition forces and civilian contractors.

[Neatorama] Ten Fascinating Facts about Iraq Overlooked by the Media.: With only about 36 miles of coastline, Iraq might not seem like the kind of country that needs a navy, but those three dozen miles are some of the most valuable in the world. Although declining, the majority of Iraq’s national revenue still comes from oil exports, and a majority of the oil leaves the country by way of just two small pipes that extend from the southern port of Umm Qasr to two terminals in the Persian Gulf.

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » “Farid Ghadry, Syria's Chalabi: From ...: In 1992, he founded the Iraqi National Congress to lobby for ousting Saddam Hussein. Chalabi helped galvanize an Iraqi uprising of Kurds and other Iraqis in the Kurdish north.

[Babylon & Beyond] IRAQ: U.N. looks to solve Kirkuk problem | Babylon & Beyond | Los ...: In what ways does Israel profit from collaborating with the Turkish regime and military, a state which denies the existence and rights of 30 million people, which is suppressing their identity, language, and culture, which is burning and bombarding their villages, which is humiliating, terrorizing, murdering innocent men, women, and children just because they are Kurds who want to live as free Kurds. Don’t the Jews have any empathy at all for the suffering of a defenceless people?

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[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Screw The War As We Saw It- WHAT ...: We should not wish to limit our Naval and Marine deployments elsewhere, as they (in partnership with the navies of local states and regional partners) are the guarantor of peaceful world trade. ...

[The Washington Note] Can the Fragile Equilibrium Among Ankara, Erbil and Baghdad Endure ...: â┚¬Ã…“For the past several years, the United States has persuaded the KRG to refrain from making any aggressive moves that would compel Baghdad to respond with force - but the U.S. is losing leverage as it withdraws its combat troops.â┚¬Ã‚ Ben Katcher

[A Soldier's Perspective] A Soldier's Perspective » Blog Archive » Exclusive: Obama VP's New ...: But, the then goes on to chastise the government for failing to implement a New World Order after Saddam would have been removed. He boldly urged that "we revive the concept of a new world order…and invest in it a vision that should become the organizing principle of American foreign policy in the 1990's and into the next century."

[Being American in TO] Being American in T.O.: Iraq Archives: "What we are witnessing," explains Yitzhak Nakash, the Brandeis University professor who is the author of "The Shi'is of Iraq," "is a very healthy bargaining session over what will be the relationship between religion and politics in Iraq and over the process of choosing legitimate national and communal leaders. It is very important that the Americans show respect for the views of Sistani -- whose tacit support for the U.S. presence in Iraq has been enormously important -- and let Sistani and the other Iraqi political forces thrash this out on their own."It is this very American optimism that the people of Iraq can and must thrash this out on their own that defines us as Americans even if it puts us at odds with the social democracies of the world who manifestly do not trust people to be capable of resolving their own internal conflicts given a free forum for political expression and debate.

[SWJ Blog] 20 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, Blog and Events Roundup (SWJ Blog): So I was not encouraged by hearing Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi utter the bromide that his coalition government "enjoys the support of the people." The coalition will be hard put to maintain that support while it deals with the dilemma posed by the unpopularity of its partners - Washington and President Musharraf, who remains in office though not in power.

[Teeth Maestro] Lahore Protest - Over 2000 against Talbanisation | Teeth Maestro: fomented an uprising of Shias in Basra and then looked away while Saddam Hussein crushed the revolt and slaughtered thousands in an act of vengeful reprisal. It was Herman Goering, that old Nazi, who said, “People can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.”¦ All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked and denounce the pacifists for a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

[AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] "Women Are Being Beheaded for Taking Their Veil Off": Honor ...: While we should not condone discrimination, violence or bigotry toward Muslims, and should not assume that all hold the same beliefs on every issue, we should also recognize that the Islamic world is rife with violence against women, forced marriage of very young girls to older men, incest, violence, vengeance, intolerance and draconian penalties for trivial offenses. Of course they always trot out a presentable imam who selectively quotes some reassuring surahs, but the Koran, like the Bible, is full of nasty stuff.

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