Blue Texan, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. April 2, 2008. St. McCain is quickly becoming the Miss Teen South Carolina of the GOP with yet still another Iraq gaffe.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. March 25, 2008. All of this, of course, comes in the midst of a discussion about U.S. troop levels, which the president is apparently prepared to leave as-is.
Ali Al-Fadhily, IPS News. November 30, 2007. Locals claim the U.S. military had been using members of the Mehdi Army to carry out attacks on Sunnis in Baghdad.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. October 10, 2007. While U.S. officials try to gin up a war with Iran by accusing it of meddling in Iraq's affairs, their real problem is that al Sadr's Mahdi army is determined to end the occupation and is simply too big to be beaten by military force.
Adil E. Shamoo, AlterNet. September 12, 2007. In D.C., there's a belief that Iraqis will tolerate the United States if they can just get the occupation right. But it's the occupation itself that inflames Iraqis' passions.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. May 22, 2007. Occupation forces offered peace talks to nationalist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and then tried to arrest or assassinate him under cover of negotiations.
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