Fatih Abdulsalam, Azzaman. January 27, 2009. Security requires political stability and national reconciliation -- and both are far from happening in Iraq.
Abeer Mohammed, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. January 21, 2009. Among Iraqis, joy at the U.S. handover is tempered by doubts about the competence of its new guards.
Jurassicpork, Brilliant at Breakfast AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 28, 2008. So how have we beaten or won over the insurgency that we'd created by disbanding the Iraqi Army?
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. May 14, 2008. The ceasefire agreement is intended to end seven weeks of fighting in which more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed.
Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor. May 3, 2008. Reports of the Iraqi Army's performance range from good, with British military officers describing it as an "unmitigated disaster at every level."
