Thu. November 19, 2009
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Media Newswire (press release)
November 19, 2009
Surge ( 2007 ) The
strategy that effectively ended the
Iraq war 9. Chinglish ( 2005 ) The Chinese-English Hybrid language growing larger as Chinese ...
guardian.co.uk
November 19, 2009
The combination of these factors meant that the outlet acted as a funnel, amplifying the incoming surge once Katrina struck shore and intensifying the size ...
The Nation.
November 19, 2009
The surge, which handed Bush's mess to
Gen. David Petraeus, a wartime leader with actual battlefield experience, would rekindle some of the messianic fervor ...
Huffington Post (blog)
November 19, 2009
On the right, Vets for Freedom is running anti-Obama ads, using the
Iraq surge as a bludgeon against him. On the left, the
California Democratic party just ...
Christian Science Monitor
November 19, 2009
And with Iraqi national elections scheduled for January the potential for renewed instability could provoke a fresh surge. At the
UNHCR headquarters here in ...
truthout
November 19, 2009
The suicide rate for 2008 was the worst in three decades, and in January 2009, 24
soldiers killed themselves - more than died in combat in
Iraq and ...
The State
November 18, 2009
The surge in deployments contrasts sharply with a 5 1/2-year span between the spring of 2003 and fall 2008 when Shaw's fighters remained stateside. ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 18, 2009
No technical glitches were reported, she said, but the transactions were being processed a little slower during the donation surge at the start of the day. ...
The Washington Independent
November 18, 2009
But the 2007
troop surge in
Iraq was a one-time increase of five combat brigades that ended with those brigades' tours. By contrast, a troop increase to ...
Dissident Voice
November 18, 2009
After all, (according to
Goldman Sachs) last quarter's surge in GDP to 3.5% was entirely a result of government stimulus. Take away the stimulus, ...
CounterCurrents.org
November 18, 2009
... the Bush-Cheney-Rice-Clinton imperialist hall of shame. Her hawkishness turns as well against steady majorities that have long since rejected both
Iraq ...
Houston Chronicle
November 18, 2009
MARK N. CAMPSEY The 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) stands ready for duty in
Iraq. Over the past two months, we've been in the
New Mexico desert ...
9NEWS.com
November 18, 2009
Because of the surge,
US forces are now limited to the countryside. That means day-to-day security operations, including the guarding of folks like Rice, ...
Guelph Mercury
November 16, 2009
The problem for Bush in 2006 was that there was no clear way forward in
Iraq.
the Pentagon's top generals were divided between those backing the surge and ...
New York Times
November 15, 2009
Iraqi civilian casualties have dropped sharply, the result of both
the United States surge and negotiations with
Sunni groups. There has been political ...
President Bush faced far more daunting political odds in January 2007 when he opted for the
Iraq surge. Some of the lessons the Bush team learned could be ...
He is a lieutenant colonel, was in the surge in
Iraq, was paralyzed from the waist down. In the old days, he would be sent home from the
army. ...
When he was commander in
Iraq -- a position he held until early 2007 -- the general was only a reluctant supporter of the "surge" of forces into Iraq. ...
Another explanation is that Obama is trying to establish a more formal and traditional relationship with the military as compared to
President Bush, ...
It's an even sharper decrease from 2008, when
President Bush signed a wartime supplemental of $188 billion to support the surge in
Iraq. ...
It's an even sharper decrease from 2008, when
President Bush signed a wartime supplemental of $188 billion to support the surge in
Iraq. ...
"In
Iraq, in 2007, the violence, the sense of collapse, was worse just before the surge, and the slow change in atmosphere it brought. ...
GW Bush and his Republican cronies left us with two
wars, most of the world alienated with us, and our
economy in the trash. Obama is winding down the
Iraq ...
"The timeline that we've talked about is actually, in a sense that, if I were to use the surge in
Iraq,...look where we are right now, sort of apply the ...
In January 2007, former
President George W. Bush ordered five additional combat brigades to
Iraq to stem deteriorating security and provide time for ...
"The timeline that we've talked about is actually, in a sense that, if I were to use the surge in
Iraq,...look where we are right now, sort of apply the ...
A surge worked in
Iraq. But, of course,
Afghanistan isn't Iraq. Can we send enough troops to blast the
Taliban out of Afghan
caves or to block escape routes ...
"The timeline that we've talked about is actually, in a sense that, if I were to use the surge in
Iraq,...look where we are right now, sort of apply the ...
Tampa Tribune
November 4, 2009
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The Australian
November 4, 2009
As a minister in the Rudd government, Senator Faulkner praised
General Petraeus, the man responsible for the successful military surge
Tapped
November 4, 2009
Consortium News
November 4, 2009
Editor's Note: Washington's conventional wisdom holds that
George W. Bush's
Channel News Asia
November 4, 2009
Washington Post
November 4, 2009
The race tightened this fall with a surge
