http://netvouz.com/garoldstone/tag/iraq?feed=rss&pg=2 garoldstone's bookmarks tagged "iraq" on Netvouz http://www.usip.org/isg/ There is urgent need for a bipartisan, forward-looking assessment of the situation in Iraq. At the urging of Congress, the United States Institute of Peace is facilitating the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, led by co-chairs James A. Baker, III, former secretary of state and honorary chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, and Lee H. Hamilton, former congressman and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars garoldstone Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:31:58 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/world/mideast/iraq/ Iraq: Washington Post Special Reports and Recent Articles (past 14 days) garoldstone Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:44:50 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/08/AR2006090800777.html A declassified report released yesterday by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence revealed that U.S. intelligence analysts were strongly disputing the alleged links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda while senior Bush administration officials were publicly asserting those links to justify invading Iraq. Sep 9, 2006 garoldstone Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:44:11 GMT http://www.nysun.com/article/26514 January 26, 2006 - The New York Sun - NY Newspaper (p)(f) garoldstone Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:01:29 GMT http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060313/ts_nm/iraq_dc Iraqi President Jalal Talabani warned political parties on Monday it was vital to accelerate efforts to form a broad government to stop any slide into civil war after bombs killed 52 people in a Shi`ite Baghdad slum. March 13, 2006 garoldstone Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:40:02 GMT http://www.bpf.org/html/whats_now/2007/2007_BPD.html#schedule * Jan 26: Meditation/Teach-in with Bhante Suhita Dharma, David Loy, and others * Jan 27: Peace March * Jan 28: Training Day * Jan 29: Lobbying Day garoldstone Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:18:49 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/29/AR2006042901142.html As the U.S. military struggles against persistent sectarian violence in Iraq, military officers and security experts find themselves in a vigorous debate over an idea that just months ago was largely dismissed as a fringe thought: that the surest -- and perhaps now the only -- way to bring stability to Iraq is to divide the country into three pieces. April 30, 2006 garoldstone Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:18:14 GMT http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673606694919/abstract We estimate that as of July, 2006, there have been 654 965 (392 979–942 636) excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2·5% of the population in the study area. Of post-invasion deaths, 601 027 (426 369–793 663) were due to violence, the most common cause being gunfire. garoldstone Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:09:54 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/26/AR2007042602230.html An active-duty Army officer is publishing a blistering attack on U.S. generals, saying they have botched the war in Iraq and misled Congress about the situation there garoldstone Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:59:28 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/14/AR2007031402444.html The Pentagon yesterday released its bleakest assessment of Iraq yet, reporting record levels of violence and hardening sectarian divisions in the last quarter of 2006 as rival Sunni and Shiite militias waged campaigns of "sectarian cleansing" that forced as many as 9,000 civilians to flee the country each month. garoldstone Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:51:32 GMT