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[Goals for Americans] SUCCESS AND TRAGEDY IN IRAQ : Iraq - Goals for Americans: In the case of this group, they are waging a cowardly truck-bomb war against innocent civilians in order to destabilize the Shiite government - their fellow Moslems.  During the terrible months of 2005/2006, as ethno-sectarian warfare terrorized Iraqi cities, it was Sunni insurgents exterminating Shiites and Shiite death squads and rogue militias exterminating Sunnis and driving them out of entire communities, creating a refugee crisis that lingers to this day.

[Voices] Voices - Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution": He and the other delegates came to Philadelphia, assembled, did their work and went home in many cases to pursue "their eclipse." Lundberg explained "As a collection of supposedly highly sagacious men, the post-convention careers of the framers raise a big question mark." Ten went bankrupt or became broke, several were involved in financial scandals, two died in duels, one became a shattered drunkard, two "flittered" with treason, one was expelled from the Senate, one went mad, others quarreled bitterly among themselves about politics and interpreting the document they created, and most switched political sides for convenience in their subsequent quests for office. Washington himself, likely died from medical malpractice, the victim of a bloodletting procedure, after he took ill, when he needed all he had.

[MotherJones.com] Drill, Garner, Drill | Mother Jones: In 2003, Pierre Pettigrew, the then-minister of international trade for the Liberal administration, informed business leaders that "As the infrastructure and governance issues are resolved, there should be no impediments to full participation by Canadian enterprises in Iraq." (Mother Jones obtained Pettigrew's letter through Canada's Access to Information law.) By 2005, Pettigrew was minister of foreign affairs, and the US State Department upbraided him for pushing for Canadian investment in Kurdistan (especially a deal between the KRG and a Canadian company called Heritage Oil), saying, "You need to inform your companies [about] the problems this is causing," according to the State Department official. Pettigrew left government in 2006 and joined F&M as an adviser.

[Socyberty] Federalism and Anti Federalism | Socyberty: The view of the Anti-Federalists can be similar to the ones held by the people opposed to War in Vietnam because like many of the people who opposed the War in Vietnam they wanted America to have a small military presence. The Anti-Federalists would have preferred America to have smaller armed forces because in order to fight a war of any magnitude you must have an abundance of available troops at the disposal of the military. 

[Goals for Americans] FINALLY THE RIGHT SOLUTION: THE IRAQ FEDERATED REPUBLIC : Iraq ...: We have concluded that it is in the best interests of everyone that Iraq be peacefully divided into FIVE SEPARATE REGIONS (OR STATES) that reflect the five most harmonious groupings of the various populations and resources in Iraq. The borders of these regions (states) of course follow the various boundaries of the existing 18 provinces divided, also, with regard to resources and historical considerations.

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] The Election Law Is Passed: Open Lists, Kirkuk Recognised as a ...: Alex, you will see that the argument of your student dovetails with that of Pushdaree above concerning water, but I nevertheless get the impression that due to the historical ties, Iraqis generally (excepting the now rather unrepresentative 2005 parliament) feel a much stronger attachment to Kirkuk than to Kurdistan. As for the water issues, I’m certainly not an expert on matters of hydrogeology, but it strikes me as plausible that in the long run the water will have to go somewhere anyway (otherwise Kurdistan would get pretty wet) and this brings us back to the standard argument that in a long-time perspective it would probably be prudent of the Kurds to pursue policies that emphasise cooperation and not conflict with all its neighbours both north and south, something which in turn would also make it easier for Kurdistan to prosper from the oil in the region.

[Tenth Amendment Center] The Constitution is Clear on Presidential War Powers | Tenth ...: According to John Bassett Moore, the great authority on international law who (among other credentials) occupied the first professorship of international law at Columbia University, “There can hardly be room for doubt that the framers of the constitution, when they vested in Congress the power to declare war, never imagined that they were leaving it to the executive to use the military and naval forces of the United States all over the world for the purpose of actually coercing other nations, occupying their territory, and killing their soldiers and citizens, all according to his own notions of the fitness of things, as long as he refrained from calling his action war or persisted in calling it peace.”

[John C. Wright] johncwright: Christian Conservatism as Myth: I commend Brutus for the murder of Caesar, and I would support the Athenian form of government over the Spartan constitution, which I regard as inhuman and degrading. Go, Cato of Utica!

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] Why an Allawi-Hakim Alliance Would Mean Retrogression in Iraq ...: What they forget is that those forces that were on the defensive in the last local elections have now devised their counter-strategy in the shape of the Iraqi National Alliance. It seems likely that another aspect of this counter-strategy is to make things as difficult as possible for Maliki in his ongoing negotiations with Iraqi nationalists - it is for example remarkable how media close to ISCI (which have been pushing the anti-Baathist and anti-Syria message for a long time) suddenly stand back a little while allowing Maliki to get trapped by going so strongly after Damascus.  Nevertheless, with his greater degree of ideological consistency Maliki should still be taken seriously by forces eager to consolidate the signs of improved political atmosphere in Iraq seen over the past year or so.

[OPINION] On Obama's record: Obama dividing country - OPINION Blog | The ...: The more important disapproval of Bush, from folks in the middle, grew with each loss of freedom due to constitutional abuse, grew some more with continuing tax breaks for those who did not need them and profited as the companies they owned stock in shipped jobs to foreign countries as fast as they could, grew quickly and profoundly as he got us into a war in Iraq with no good plan to either win or go home, and in the end of his term grew some more as he told us how little he valued the approval of American citizens.

[Informed Comment] Informed Comment: Iraq Preachers Lambaste Senate: Democracy for the Iraqi "leaders" is an anathema which they find useful for the time being. They turn it on its head by declaring people having different views, which is the essense of democracy, as plotters against something they call the political process (which they see themselves as its guardians.) Therefore, anyone who disagrees with them is deemed against the liberty and democracy which only their "political process" can bring.

[Freakonomics] What New Nobel Laureate Roger Myerson Is Talking About Tonight ...: This faction, it has been argued with some persuasiveness, has less credibility nationally because it is backed by an invader who has announced plans to leave (and whose own polity is highly divided about the Iraq War). Yes, one needs to build power networks to run a state, but I have argued for some time that our presence inhibits that process because we artificially maintain a government whose anticipated lifespan is not much longer than the day we pull out.

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » The Ethics of ...: The Constitution is surely a political document. But I've never understood the Federalist Society to be advocating a political interpretation of the Constitution ”” in fact, that would be contrary to founding principles.

[Jon Taplin's Blog] Unintended Consequences in Iraq « Jon Taplin's Blog: You have to root that tommorrow, the Iraqis Shi’ites in Basra find a solution, that Madhi Army (even Iran) remain peaceful and rout out their own most extreme factions, and figure their shit out - because that’s what is best for us.

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