Iraq
9/19/2007 | Iraq
Senate Democrats Keep Tough War Stance, Despite Earlier Pledges
FoxNews.com
WASHINGTON — After weeks of suggesting Democrats would temper their approach to Iraq legislation in a bid to attract more Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared abruptly Tuesday that he had no plans to do so. The Democratic leader said he will call for a vote this month on several anti-war proposals, including one by Sen. Carl Levin that would insist President Bush end U.S. combat next summer. The proposals would be mandatory and not leave Bush wiggle room, said Reid, D-Nev. "There (are) no goals. It's all definite timelines," he told reporters of the planned legislation. Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Monday night he would have agreed to turn the summer deadline into a nonbinding goal if doing so meant attracting enough votes to pass. Several Republicans have said they are uneasy about Bush's war strategy but do not like the idea of setting a firm timetable on troop withdrawals. Reid's hardline stance reflects a calculation by Democrats that Levin's proposal probably would have failed either way. Democrats hold a thin majority in the Senate and similar legislation has repeatedly fallen short of the 60 votes needed to break a GOP filibuster.
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Iraq report to show slow progress: report
CTV
The day after U.S. President George Bush said progress in Iraq justifies a large American military presence in the troubled region, a new report is expected to show meagre gains have been made. The White House was expected to report Friday that progress had stalled in Iraq as the country's leaders were not meeting important benchmarks in security and stability set by the U.S., according to media reports. On Thursday evening, Bush addressed Americans and assured them U.S. troops were strengthening prospects in Iraq and as a result needed to stay in the region to ensure progress would continue. However, violence in the region continues to cast a shadow on the American mission. Just 12 hours before Bush's speech, a prominent Iraqi ally to U.S. troops against al Qaeda was assassinated in Anbar province. Abu Risha had posed for the press with Bush just ten days before when the president was in Anbar and suggested the province be taken as a model of progress in Iraq.
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Petraeus plan becomes the Bush plan
Chicago Tribue
President Bush will ask Americans once again tonight night for patience and sacrifice at war, but congressional leaders say their patience has run out and the American military has sacrificed enough. He will cite the work of Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, who announced this week that he has recommended a scaling back of troops to “pre-surge” levels, drawing about 30,000 American troops out of Iraq by the middle of July 2008.
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U.S. military to release Iraqi detainees during Ramadan
AFP
The US military in Iraq announced on Thursday the start of a programme to release 50 to 80 detainees a day during Ramadan as security forces went on alert for fear of attack during the Muslim holy month. Ramadan began on Thursday for the minority Sunni population while the majority Shiites will commence the month of dawn to dusk fasting on Friday. "Task Force 134, the (US-led) organisation responsible for detainee operations, expects to release between 50 and 80 detainees per day during this holy month," a military statement said.
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Rice: Stable Iraq a 'Long Process'
Time
(WASHINGTON) — Stabilizing Iraq will be a lengthy process that won't end when violence in that country — and U.S. troop strength — are reduced, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday. "We're at the beginning of a transition in the Middle East, we're at the beginning of a long process of dealing with what the president called a long time ago a generational challenge to our security brought on by extremism coming principally out of the Middle East," Rice said. A day before President Bush was expected to announce that he plans to reduce the American troop presence in Iraq by as many as 30,000 by next summer, Rice said the U.S. views the task of stabilizing Iraq as not simply improving security within its borders but "to begin to have American forces in lower numbers turn to other responsibilities." Among those, she said, is "the territorial security of Iraq" with respect to its Mideast neighbors, especially Iran. "Iran is a very troublesome neighbor," she said on NBC's "Today" show. "Iran is prepared to fill the vacuum" if the United States leaves Iraq.
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Petraeus Reports: Day of Reckoning for Iraq Strategy
ABC News
After months of speculation, Gen. David Petraeus is finally set to testify today and deliver his report to Congress on the status of the troop surge in Iraq. Although Petraeus is expected to call for a small drawdown in troops as early as December, the report will likely make the case that the United States should delay any decision to make substantial cuts in troops levels. The world will be focused on Petraeus' words, as they may determine how much longer American troops remain in Iraq. President Bush is expected to address the nation later this week to announce changes, if any, he will make to the Iraq strategy.
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Bush Gets a New Kind of Iraq Briefing
Time
Monday, during his surprise visit to al Asad air base in Iraq's Anbar province, Bush got a different kind of briefing from Capt. Lee Hemming, a Marine helicopter pilot in Anbar. Hemming began to talk about the Marines' new rotation schedule, and their extended tours in Iraq, and the room became more tense. Hemming said there were pros and cons to the rotation. The pros, he said, were that Marines could familiarize themselves with the battlefield thanks to the extra days they serve on it. The cons stemmed from the length of the troops' five-month stateside break between deployments. Speaking more quickly out of what seemed nervous determination, Hemming said, "Our training at home has been very limited." The short stays were particularly hard on families, he said. As the room waited to see how the President would react, Hemming said he would welcome any questions or comments. Bush looked across the room at him and said, "Morale. How's morale?" "It's very good sir," said Hemming. Bush said, "Obviously there's concerns about families, rotations. People who have got young kids want to be with their kids. I understand that. On the other hand, many of them reup," he said, arguing that reenlistment rates are high in Anbar. Would service members' concerns affect his decision about troop levels later this month? "The main factor that will affect my decision on troop levels is, can we succeed, what does it take to succeed?" Bush answered. "Because failure would lead to harm to America, is what I believe. As a matter of fact I'm certain of it."
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Bush Wants $50 Billion More for Iraq War
Washington Post
President Bush plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, a White House official said yesterday, a move that appears to reflect increasing administration confidence that it can fend off congressional calls for a rapid drawdown of U.S. forces. The request -- which would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- is expected to be announced after congressional hearings scheduled for mid-September featuring the two top U.S. officials in Iraq. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker will assess the state of the war and the effect of the new strategy the U.S. military has pursued this year. The request is being prepared now in the belief that Congress will be unlikely to balk so soon after hearing the two officials argue that there are promising developments in Iraq but that they need more time to solidify the progress they have made, a congressional aide said.
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Report: Iraqi stability growing
Washington Times
Growing Sunni opposition to al Qaeda and in some cases the perception that U.S. troops will leave the country are key factors behind recent and growing stability in Iraq, according to a major U.S. intelligence report based on findings from 16 agencies. The updated National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a consensus view of the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and other services, says "measurable" security improvements were made in war-torn Iraq since January and will expand modestly in the next 12 months with continued military pressure on insurgents.
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Bush's Iraq speech to hit on Vietnam
USA Today
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Bush plans to argue today that a hasty "retreat" from Iraq would lead to the kinds of bloodbaths that followed U.S. withdrawals from Vietnam and Cambodia in the 1970s. In a speech he is to deliver here at the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention, Bush will also say that the recent increase of U.S. troops is producing military progress in the war-racked country. "Will their elected leaders in Washington pull the rug out from under them just as they are gaining momentum and changing the dynamic on the ground in Iraq?" Bush says in prepared remarks released by the White House late Tuesday.
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Why is Iran Shelling Iraq?
Time
Iraqi Kurdish media are reporting that the Iranian military is massing at the main border crossing into northern Iraq, possibly for an incursion against PEJAK. Clashes between PEJAK and the Iranians have been increasing steadily, and Iraqi Kurdish officials say that about 40 Iranian soldiers were killed on Saturday. Whether or not the Iranians attack, the timing of build-up is ominous. Last week, the United States announced that it may list Iran's Revolutionary Guard — a branch of the country's military — as a terrorist organization for supplying explosives to Shi'ite militias in Iraq for use against American soldiers. The statement was part of a growing White House campaign aimed at either intimidating the Iranian regime, or at building a case for an American strike against Iran. In that light, yesterday's shelling is a reminder that Iran has the ability to confront the U.S. not just on the streets of Baghdad but also in the one part Iraq so safe that there are hardly any American soldiers: Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Iraq Sunni Leader: Iran Backing "Genocide"
CBS News
(CBS/AP) Iraq's most senior Sunni politician issued a desperate appeal for Arab nations to help stop what he called an "unprecedented genocide campaign" by Shiite militias armed, trained and controlled by Iran. Adnan al-Dulaimi said "Persians" and "Safawis," Sunni terms for Iranian Shiites, were on the brink of total control in Baghdad and soon would threaten Sunni Arab regimes which predominate in the Mideast.
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Iran-Supplied Bomb Is Killing More Troops in Iraq, U.S. Says
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/world/middleeast/08military.html?ex=1344225600&en=7de3578308651728&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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Sunnis Asked to Reconsider Quitting Iraqi Government
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291807,00.html
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NYT: US SEEN IN IRAQ UNTIL AT LEAST '09; GOAL IS SET AS SECURITY NATIONWIDE; classified plan... Developing...
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/world/middleeast/24military.html?ei=5065&en=d0b7f1b1a1b703b6&ex=1185854400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
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U.S., Iran to discuss Iraq security
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-07-22-iran-us-talks_N.htm?csp=34
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Pentagon Rebukes Hillary on Iraq; claims NY Senator 'reinforces enemy propaganda'.
CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/20/politics/main3079733.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_3079733
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Poll: Do Most Support Iraq Timetable
CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/18/opinion/polls/main3071073.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_3071073
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Report: Al-Qaeda may use Iraqi network to attack U.S.
USA Today
WASHINGTON — The terrorist network al-Qaeda will likely leverage its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an attack on U.S. soil, according to a new National Intelligence Estimate on threats to the United States. The declassified key findings, to be released publicly on Tuesday, were obtained in advance by the Associated Press.
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Iraq report implies surge won't work unless troops stay longer
USA Today
WASHINGTON — While many in Congress are pushing President Bush to alter course in Iraq by September if not sooner, his new status report on the war strongly implies that the administration believes its military strategy will take many more months to meet its goals. The report cited no specific timeframe, but its language suggests what some U.S. commanders have hinted at recently: The troop reinforcements that Bush ordered in January may need to remain until spring 2008. That's a military calculation at odds with an emerging political consensus in Washington on bringing the troops home soon. The disconnect between the military and political views on the best way forward is a symptom of four-plus years of setbacks in Iraq — not only missteps by the U.S. government but also by Iraqi political leaders, who have fallen far short of their stated aim of creating a government of national unity.
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