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May 10, 2007 09:38 AM EDT --
In the summer of 2006, Israel invaded Lebanon to crush Hezbollah –and failed badly. Within weeks, they formed a commission to find out who failed and why. They’ve just issued their . . .
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January 22, 2008 10:36 AM EST --
The story of Iraq may be taking a backseat right now to the presidential campaign and the economy. But not if you're a soldier, or an Iraqi, or cutting the checks in Washington, or feeling the . . .
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December 20, 2007 10:26 AM EST --
Four and a half years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq is still a long way from the democratic ideal Americans once envisioned. A large, but seldom told part of that story is the exodus of Iraq's . . .
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April 01, 2008 10:23 AM EDT --
A week ago, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and central government troops charged into the southern oil port of Basra, vowing to clean up the town and laying down a tough deadline for rogue militiamen . . .
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December 05, 2007 10:39 AM EST --
You know the news out of Iraq these days: the surge seems to be working, at least for now. Some refugees are trickling back in. The U.S. military complains that Iraq's politicians aren't doing . . .
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September 14, 2007 10:41 AM EDT --
It was, in a way, the only news this week – a week of Iraq that may point to decades in Iraq. After all the months and troops and anticipation and charts and testimony, the bottom line may come down . . .
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August 28, 2007 12:06 PM EDT --
For months, the talk on Iraq has been about the surge. Now, it’s suddenly all about Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Should he stay or go? Is he America’s man in Baghdad, or just an empty suit? . . .
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March 20, 2008 11:19 AM EDT --
Five years into the Iraq War, the way ahead is still the subject of great debate.
President Bush says "carry on." Critics charge the war is the worst foreign policy mistake in American . . .
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June 14, 2007 11:00 AM EDT --
The bombing and shooting and dying isn't over. And political leaders are still talking about the necessity of success. But in high-level strategic circles, there is plenty of talk that America has . . .
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February 21, 2008 10:29 AM EST --
Congressman Patrick Murphy, Democrat from Pennsylvania, knows how decisions made in Washington are felt by American soldiers in Iraq. He was a captain and paratrooper over there with the 82nd Airborne. . . .
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October 11, 2007 11:25 AM EDT --
Iraqi scholar Kanan Makiya was a passionate, powerful advocate of American intervention in Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein. He wrote about that most brutal of regimes long before most Americans . . .
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July 11, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
Twelve billion dollars a month are being spent now on the war in Iraq, and lots of blood, too. It is THE topic on Capitol Hill right now with a giant defense spending bill being debated on the Senate . . .
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August 02, 2007 10:07 AM EDT --
In war time, the story we hear is that of the soldiers on the battlefront, deployment after deployment, or coping with debilitating injuries at home.
But behind their stories are the unsung women of the . . .
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March 24, 2008 10:29 AM EDT --
When a roadside bomb blew up in southern Baghdad last night, four US soldiers were killed. And with that, the death toll of American military troops in Iraq hit 4000. No more or less meaningful . . .
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May 23, 2008 11:37 AM EDT --
For all the years and all the deaths now, the sacrifices of American military men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan can seem still out of sight and far away.
But for colleagues and comrades in arms, . . .
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June 19, 2007 10:06 AM EDT --
In defining his War on Terror, President Bush has not been shy about World War II analogies. Today's enemies, he has said, are "successors to Fascists, to Nazis."
But there is at least one . . .
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April 09, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
By this time next year, one of them will almost certainly be the boss. In yesterday's Senate hearings on Capitol Hill of the U.S. commander in Iraq, all three big presidential candidates went head-to-head . . .
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June 15, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
There were shocking scenes this week, in a world that is hard to shock. Palestinians were tearing Gaza from the West Bank in an overnight civil war between Hamas and Fatah, as the US looks on in dismay. . . .
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February 11, 2008 10:45 AM EST --
Sister Olga of the Eucharist is an Iraqi nun whose faith took her into Iraq's hard side long before the US invasion in 2003. From her work in the streets under Saddam Hussein, she knows the rough . . .
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September 17, 2007 02:14 PM EDT --
It’s been a long war and an unpopular war. Americans overwhelmingly say they oppose the war in Iraq, but the war in Iraq goes on. So where’s the heat of opposition?
It's in Congress, . . .
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