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Changing of the Guard

2008-05-13T00:26:50Z

Apr 23 - General David Petraeus appears headed for promotion to lead the U.S. Central Command. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said General Petraeus is the most qualified officer to manage counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Will Sadr Declare Open War?

2008-05-08T06:33:09Z

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Behind Sadr's warning to the US lies an unavoidable fact: He holds critical cards in Iraq

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David Swanson speaks at CODEPINK press conference 9/5/07

2008-05-10T15:29:41Z

David Swanson of afterdowningstreet.org spoke with the capitol building in the background and demanded that Congress "end the war this week!"
This video was filmed during CODEPINK's september 5th press conference which also included speakers from The Backbone Campaign, UFPJ, Iraq Veterans Against the War and more!

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What Petraeus Didn't Tell You

2008-05-13T00:27:28Z

General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker came to Capitol Hill to answer questions about the Iraq war. They talked about security, troop cuts among other things but one item was missing from their agenda. What did the General and the US Ambassador to Iraq forget to talk about?

The answer to this question and more on link TV's Mosaic Intelligence Report.

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TPMtv: "Progress" Report

2008-05-05T09:30:21Z

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Seven months after the start of the "surge," General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday to update senators on the "fragile and reversible" progress in Iraq. We have the highlights.

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Obama Questions Petraeus and Crocker

2008-05-04T03:29:43Z

General David Petraeus Testimony
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
April 8, 2008

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Obama: Apply "Measured But Increased Pressure" on the Iraqis

2008-05-04T03:29:43Z

General David Petraeus Testimony
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
April 8, 2008

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Voinovich: The American People Have Had It Up to Here

2008-05-04T15:29:50Z

General David Petraeus Testimony
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
April 8, 2008

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Lieberman: Great War, or the Greatest War?

2008-05-03T15:29:33Z

At General David Petraeus's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, Joe Lieberman had the nerve to say that he wishes we could come to an agreement on the facts about all the "progress" we've made in Iraq. Well, Joe, try these facts from The Nation's Tom Engelhardt on for size:

The situation in Iraq is getting worse: Don't believe anyone who says otherwise. The surge-ified, "less violent" Iraq the general has presided over so confidently is, in fact, a chaotic, violent tinderbox of city states, proliferating militias armed to the teeth, competing regions armed to the teeth, and competing religious factions armed to the teeth. Worse yet, under Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, the U.S. has been the great proliferator. It has armed and funded close to 100,000 Sunnis organized into militias reportedly intent on someday destroying "the Iranians" (i.e. the Maliki government). It has also supported Shiite militias (aka the Iraqi army). In Basra, it took sides in a churning Shiite civil war. As Nir Rosen summed matters up in a typically brilliant piece in the Nation, Baghdad today is but a set of "fiefdoms run by warlords and militiamen," a pattern the rest of the country emulates. "The Bush administration," he adds, "and the U.S. military have stopped talking of Iraq as a grand project of nation-building, and the U.S. media have dutifully done the same." Meanwhile, in the little noticed north, an Arab/Kurdish civil war over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, and possibly Mosul as well, is brewing. This, reports Pepe Escobar of Asia Times, could be explosive. Think nightmare.

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Petraeus Take 2: Is America Safer Because of Iraq War?

2008-05-03T09:29:26Z