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June 2008
- Big Oil Deals Absent as Iraq Opens for Bids
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 30, 08 11:13 AM CDT
  
  The Iraqi government opened six oil fields to bidding today, without mention of expected no-bid contracts with big Western oil companies, the AP notes; it had been reported that several big companies were close to signing short-term deals with Iraq's government. "There is no preferential treatment for anyone, no matter who," a spokesman said. More »
  
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  Iraq • BP • Chevron • Iraq oil • Exxon Mobil • Royal Dutch Shell • Total SA
- US Steps Up Covert Plots in Iran
  
  newser | New Yorker | Jun 30, 08 2:15 AM CDT
  
  Congress agreed to boost covert operations against Iran last year despite reservations by key officials, Seymour Hersh writes in the New Yorker . President Bush sought up to $400 million for the program, which supports dissidents intent on undermining Tehran and gathers data on its nuke plans. Some analysts believe the moves foreshadow a military strike against the country. More »
  
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  Iraq • George W. Bush • Iran • Congress • CIA • William Fallon
- Iraq Planning Seriously Flawed: Army
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 29, 08 7:39 AM CDT
  
  The planning and execution of the Iraq occupation was seriously flawed, the Army concedes in an unclassified report to be released tomorrow. Built on some 200 interviews, the study is a detailed analysis of the Army's activities, aimed at military experts, reports the New York Times . A central problem identified in the report is the military’s failure to adequately plan for the occupation after major combat. More »
  
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  Iraq • Iraq war • US military • US Army
- CBS' Logan Stars in Iraq Love Triangle
  
  newser | New York Post | Jun 26, 08 11:46 AM CDT
  
  “60 Minutes” reporter Lara Logan apparently found Baghdad to be a little more heated than most. The New York Post reports that the former swimsuit model has been called a homewrecker for seducing a married civilian contractor in Iraq, while at the same time carrying on a tryst with CNN reporter Michael Ware. Eventually, Logan’s two paramours got into a physical brawl, a source told the Post. More »
  
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  Iraq • celebrity • journalist • love triangle • Lara Logan
- Refugees: Iraq's Unspoken Crisis
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 26, 08 6:56 AM CDT
  
  New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof travels to Jordan to report on one of the unintended consequences of the Iraq war: a regional refugee crisis. About 2 million Iraqis, mostly Sunnis, have fled since the war, living mostly in Jordan and Syria in deplorable conditions. "They are the new Palestinians," writes Kristof, "the 21st-century Arab diaspora that threatens the region’s stability." More »
  
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  Iraq • Iraq war • Middle East • Syria • Jordan • Sunnis • Iraqi refugees
- Brangelina Donate $1M to Kids Hurt by Iraq War
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 26, 08 4:47 AM CDT
  
  Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie—soon to be proud parents of six—are doling out $1 million for other people's kids, AP reports. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation will give counseling and educational aid to Iraqis and Americans who have lost their parents, homes or schools in the Iraqi War. Last year, the couple gave $300,000 to help Darfur refugees. More »
  
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  Iraq • Angelina Jolie • Brad Pitt • Iraqis killed
- Contrast in Defense Chiefs: Blunt Vet vs. Rhodes Scholar
  
  newser | NPR | Jun 25, 08 6:13 PM CDT
  
  How would a McCain Pentagon differ from Obama's? NPR sits own with two potential defense chiefs and finds common ground in their praise of Robert Gates' reforms but big differences in their approach to Iraq and in their own styles. Richard Armitage is an earthy McCain adviser and Vietnam vet who appreciates the value of "an infantryman with a bayonet." Obama adviser Richard Danzig is a Rhodes Scholar who wants soldiers to learn foreign languages. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • Pentagon • Richard Armitage
- Cigar Woes Snare Another Politician
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Jun 24, 08 2:40 PM CDT
  
  London's mayor found out yesterday that he is “the one and only Western politician to be brought to justice for crimes committed in Iraq.” Boris Johnson's misdeed? Taking a cigar case as a souvenir from the smashed villa of Iraq’s former deputy prime minister while on assignment as a journalist in 2003, the Times of London reports. More »
  
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  Iraq • Great Britain • England • Tony Blair • Saddam Hussein • war crimes • justice • Tariq Aziz
- Sadr City Bomb Kills 4 Americans
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jun 24, 08 8:23 AM CDT
  
  Two US troops and two US government employees were killed today during a suicide bombing at a local council building in Baghdad's Sadr City, the LA Times reports. The blast, the second this week that targeted Americans meeting with local officials, also claimed the lives of two Iraqis and wounded several others. Yesterday a gunman killed two US soldiers as they left a municipal building about 15 miles from the capital. More »
  
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  Iraq • Baghdad • bombing • Sadr City
- Planting Flag in Iran Would Be Good for US
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 23, 08 3:18 PM CDT
  
  President Bush is considering opening a small US office in Iran, Fred Hiatt writes in the Washington Post , a move that could spur contact with citizens—and perhaps the hostile regime. "It's not a softening," one official said of the proposed interest section, steps below a full embassy. "It does allow us to reach out to youth groups, to talk to dissidents. It's something the regime wouldn't like." More »
  
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  Iraq • George W. Bush • Iran • embassy
- Obama Must Talk Iraq; Here's How
  
  newser | Newsweek | Jun 23, 08 2:59 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama may be on the right side of the Iraq issue, Fareed Zakaria writes in Newsweek , but does he want to be “prescient about the war in 2002 and yet … overtaken by events in 2008?” The Democrat needs to detail an earnest plan, and Zakaria has a speech written. Obama should “welcome the gains" yet draw contrasts with John McCain. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • David Petraeus • surge
- How to Transition Out of Iraq
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 19, 08 1:37 PM CDT
  
  It's time for the US to carve out a practical strategy in Iraq, David Ignatius argues in the Washington Post . At a cost of $400 million a day, the war is draining America's economy—precisely what Osama bin Laden hoped for. The solution will not be quick, simple, or easy, but rather "ambiguous, messy, occasionally in the shadows." More »
  
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  Iraq • Iraq war • Iran • al-Qaeda • US military • military • Iraq exit strategy
- Oil Giants to Return to Iraq
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 19, 08 4:20 AM CDT
  
  Four big oil companies chucked out of Iraq by Saddam Hussein 36 years ago are ready to return, the New York Time s reports. BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell and Total are about to announced winning coveted no-bid contracts to service Iraqi oil fields. The contracts are short-term, but the firms hope to significantly boost the country's oil production and win even bigger deals to develop huge new fields. More »
  
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  Iraq • oil companies • Chevron • Iraq oil • Shell • Exxon Mobil
- Car Bomb Kills 51 at Baghdad Market
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 17, 08 5:18 PM CDT
  
  A car bomb tore through a market area in a mainly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad today, killing more than 50 people and wounding dozens, officials said. It was the deadliest such attack in more than three months. Nobody claimed responsibility, but it bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which is known to use car bombs and suicide attacks. More »
  
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  Iraq • al-Qaeda • Baghdad • al-Qaeda in Iraq • Iraq violence • Iraq mess
- Candidates Spar Over Origins of 9/11 Attacks
  
  newser | Time | Jun 17, 08 4:20 PM CDT
  
  A top aide to John McCain aide today called Barack Obama “naïve,” “delusional,” and the “perfect manifestation of a Sept. 10 mindset,” ABC News reports. The sniping came in response to Obama’s comment that the US acted correctly in trying the terrorists behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in the federal court system, the Washington Post reports. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • John Kerry • World Trade Center • Richard Clarke
- Foreign Investment in Iraq Up
  
  newser | USA Today | Jun 17, 08 4:09 PM CDT
  
  European and Asian investors are taking advantage of the recently stabilized Iraqi business climate, USA Today reports. US firms still regard Iraq as too dangerous to invest in, but that attitude may cost them the best opportunities. The firms “who are getting in on the ground floor are not American," says a Pentagon official. "It's ironic." More »
  
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  Iraq • business • America • investment • competition • foreign investment • investment firm
- Low-Profile US-Iraq Pact Sparks Big Worries
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 17, 08 1:11 PM CDT
  
  The US is pressuring Iraq to sign off on a long-term security agreement that looks unfortunately similar to a disastrous 1930 pact between Iraq and Britain, and the new pact "could haunt Washington’s relations with Baghdad for years to come," historian and journalist Karl E. Meyer writes in the New York Times . More »
  
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  Iraq • Great Britain • Nazi • UN sanctions • nationalism
- Army Overseer Ousted After Rejecting Bogus Iraq Bills
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 17, 08 7:54 AM CDT
  
  Did a top Army official lose his job for trying to save the Army money? Charles Smith was ousted from his job after refusing to pay then-Halliburton subsidiary KBR more than $1 billion in charges deemed bogus by Army auditors. “They had a gigantic amount of costs they couldn’t justify,” Smith tells the New York Times . “The money that was going to KBR was money being taken away from the troops, and I wasn’t going to do that.” Smith’s successor coughed up the money. More »
  
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  Iraq • Iraq contractors • defense spending • KBR • Halliburton
- Soldier Faces Death Penalty for Killing Comrades
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 16, 08 8:24 AM CDT
  
  A soldier may soon face court-martial in the deaths of two US officers in Iraq, whom army prosecutors say he killed in a rare instance of “fragging”—the murder of a fellow soldier. The New York Times examines the case of Sgt. Alberto Martinez, who prosecutors say detonated a mine in Captain Phillip Esposito’s quarters in 2005, killing him and another officer. “I’m convinced this was 100% preventable,” said Esposito’s widow. More »
  
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  Iraq • murder • crime • US military • National Guard
- Iraq Could Win the Election —for McCain
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 13, 08 10:19 AM CDT
  
  Conventional wisdom has it that supporting the Iraq war is a major weakness for John McCain, but conventional wisdom is wrong, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post. In his victory speech, Barack Obama said it was “time for Iraqis to take responsibility for their own future,” but as the Basra and Mosul offenses proved, that’s already happening, he writes, spelling out a list of recent successes. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • McCain 2008 • Iraq exit strategy

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