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[AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth] AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Military ...: For all of these problems, however, Colonel Reese argues that Iraqi forces are competent enough to hold off Sunni insurgents, Shiite militias and other internal threats to the Iraqi government. Extending the American military presence in Iraq beyond 2010, he argues, will do little to improve the Iraqis’

[WORLD-BIGGEST-NEWS.COM] US 'should declare victory and leave Iraq' | WORLD-BIGGEST-NEWS.COM: The disclosure of the Reese memo comes a day after the US defence secretary Robert Gates said that the pull-back from Iraq could be sped up slightly with the inclusion of an extra brigade of about 5,000 troops by the end of this year on top of the two already planned. But that still leaves most US troops still inside Iraq at the time of the sensitive Iraqi elections in January.

[Room for Debate] Out of Iraq by Next Year? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com: The US media has generally not been fair to the Iraqis: they are damned if they don’t achieve stability and democracy fast enough and damned if they openly express the fact that they are emerging from civil war and in a few years may be the leading Arab Islamic democracy. Maliki’s nationalistic rhetoric is no different from the hype used by US politicians for domestic consumption, and the pride displayed by Iraqi soldiers will probably improve morale and help them do their job better.

[NO QUARTER] Iraq Says Yes to Iran : NO QUARTER: The memo offers a look at tensions that emerged between Iraqi and American military officers at a sensitive moment when American combat troops met a June 30 deadline to withdraw from Iraq’s cities, the first step toward an advisory role. The Iraqi government’s forceful moves to assert authority have concerned some American officers, though senior American officials insisted that cooperation had improved.

[WCAX - Local News] US adviser to Iraqi military urges early US exit - WCAX.COM Local ...: "A lot of what this Iraqi government is doing is for internal consumption to solidify its nationalist credentials going into the national elections in January," Mansoor said. "Once those elections are over and a government is in place they may look at their situation differently and realize that a longer-term relationship with the United States ”” to include a military relationship ”” is in their interests."

[Breaking News] US adviser to Iraqi military says it's time for US troops to ...: BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government would spend more than $5 billion to buy military equipment, supplies and training from the US through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program, the US military said Saturday. The deal came after five-day talks this week between representatives from the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Army Security Assistance Command and Navy International Program Office, and the Iraqi Defense and Interior ministries, a financial management review of the Iraqi FMS program.

[The Impudent Observer] WE WON IN IRAQ, WE'RE COMING HOME!: Colonel Timothy R. Reese, a top military adviser urged his superiors in a secret memo to “declare victory and go home” months ahead of the current deadline.

[The Common Ills] Iraq snapshot « The Common Ills: Chaos and violence continue, the assault on Camp Ashraf continues, the inquiry into the Iraq War begins in England, a US military colonel in Iraq advises that the US needs to remove all forces by August 2010, a Senate committee hears testimony stating the federal circuit should be removed from the VA appeals process, and more.

[The Caucus] The Early Word: It's the Economy - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com: Working somewhat as a bloc, but also through other groups such as the fiscally conservative Blue Dogs, the freshmen helped to not only postpone a floor vote, but to spur concessions on cost and regional disparities. Party leaders are also talking about raising the threshold for any surtaxes that could hit small businesses, in response to freshmen demands.

[NO QUARTER] Birth Certificate Lying Still : NO QUARTER: Johnson “believes” BO is a natural born US citizen and meets the constitutional requirements to be POTUS, I suspect his use of the pejorative term “birthers”, is being used to diminish the fact that BO has used his adoptive legal name Barry Soetoro to game the system.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Gunmen kill 8 guards in Baghdad bank robbery, make off with nearly ...: Bombings in Mosul, Baghdad kill at least 41BAGHDAD ”” Two suicide bombers on Thursday killed at least 34 people and injured 70 in an attack on the home of an anti-terrorism officer in northern Iraq, while three roadside bombs in Baghdad killed seven others, authorities said. The attacks came one day after car bombs in two Shiite villages near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed 16 civilians and injured more than two dozen, in a surge of violence in Iraq's troubled north following the withdrawal of U.S.

[Little Alex in Wonderland] Daily Briefing ”” 30th-31st July 2009 « Little Alex in Wonderland: Thirty four year-old blogger, Elisha Strom, has been arrested in Bedford County, Virginia for posting photos and the home address of an undercover narc on her blog,” writes Brad Taylor.

[The America 20xy News Service] The America 20xy News Service » Blog Archive » US military adviser ...: Colonel Reese appears to have anonymously circulated a less colorful version of his memo on a blog dubbed “The Enchanter’s Corner.” The author is described as an active-duty Army officer serving as an adviser in Iraq who is “passionate about political issues.” Since word of the memo began to spread, the memo has been removed from the site.

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