Archive for 'War in Iraq'
Iraq: Beyond the Gallows
Many observers have assumed that Saddam Hussein’s execution was yet another Iraqi “milestone” timed to serve the needs of a struggling American president. Milestone it was, but indications now suggest that this was, on the contrary, a marker that Washington was desperate to forestall. And for good reason: in pressing for Saddam’s execution, Iran appears […]
Posted: January 14th, 2007 under CF REPORTS, Iran, Iraq, War in Iraq.
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Rice’s stillborn talks with the Iraqi resistance
Over the last three months, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and her top aides have scrambled to build a “new security architecture” for the Middle East — one that will maintain pressure on Iran at the same time that it provides a cover for U.S. efforts to salvage some respectability from its collapsing position in […]
Posted: January 1st, 2007 under Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Iraq, War in Iraq.
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The axis of not quite as evil
By Mark Perry, Bitterlemons, November 2, 2006
We might now take George Bush at his word: in the wake of the September 11 attacks, he named three nations as the “axis of evil”: North Korea, Iran and Iraq. The statement had a solid tripartite ring to it, conjuring images of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial […]
Posted: November 5th, 2006 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Mark Perry, War in Iraq, War on terrorism.
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Calculating Iran’s Iraq impact: ‘It’s too late to switch sides’ - a Sunni leader argues
From our Baghdad correspondent
Condoleezza Rice’s recent visit to Iraq was intended to show support for the battered government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but it was clear from the moment the Secretary of State arrived that the US was beginning to shift its political stance. A senior member of the al-Tawafuq Bloc told this […]
Posted: October 25th, 2006 under Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Iraq, War in Iraq.
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How to lose the war on terrorism
Part one: Talking with the ‘terrorists’
By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, Asia Times, March 31, 2006
Seventy-two hours before the Iraqi people voted on a new parliament, on December 12, 2005, we were told by a senior US administration official that “detailed data received by the White House” pointed to a “decisive win” for Ayad Allawi’s […]
Posted: March 31st, 2006 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Mark Perry, Middle East, Political Islam, War in Iraq, War on terrorism.
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The bloody cost of hugging “good intentions” in Iraq
By Alastair Crooke, Bitterlemons, January 26, 2006
Having recently participated in two public debates on the issue of whether the United States should withdraw now from Iraq or stay the course, I understand only too well that western audiences are not listening to the arguments. It is not cool rationality that sways the audience, but the […]
Posted: January 26th, 2006 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Iraq, War in Iraq.
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