Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. July 7, 2008. With covert operations against Iran poised to be carried out from Iraqi territory, Iranian retaliation would target the already embattled country.
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. July 23, 2007. Another war in Iraq looms as Turkey's 140,000 troops amassed on the border with Kurdish Iraq threatens to set off a new wave of violence and destabilization in the Middle East.
Peter Galbraith, The New York Review of Books and TomDispatch. July 19, 2007. Neither the President nor the war's intellectual architects are prepared to admit this. Nonetheless, the specter of defeat shapes their thinking in telling ways.
