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Iraq

Iraq, the 51st state, the bane of Democrats, the millstone around Republican necks and ultimately, perhaps the last hurrah for American imperialism for quite some time.

News of Iraq and America's occupation of a sovereign nation.

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April 2007
- Dems Stick With Deadline For Withdrawal
  
  Politico | Apr 24, 07 6:37 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Congressional Democrats are forcing the White House's hand on Iraq, agreeing on a version of the spending bill that sets a timetable for withdrawing troops by next March—and daring the President to veto it. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called the move a "long overdue effort to put some spine in our policy." More »
- Attack on GIs Kills Nine, Wounds 20
  
  Washington Post | Apr 24, 07 6:03 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A truck bomb attack on a U.S. military outpost killed nine American infantrymen in the Iraqi province of Diyala yesterday, and wounded 20 more. The attack was one of the deadliest ground assaults on American troops since the war began, raising the question whether the 10-week-old counterinsurgency strategy is making soldiers more vulnerable. More »
- Iraqi PM Calls Off Wall
  
  New York Times | Apr 23, 07 6:07 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki halted construction of a wall between a Sunni neighborhood and surrounding Shiite areas in Baghdad yesterday, after outraged protests by both Sunnis and Shiites. Al-Maliki said he did not want Iraqis to be reminded of "other walls"—a reference to the barrier being built by Israel in the West Bank. More »
- Gunmen Execute 23 In Kurdish Sect
  
  Associated Press | Apr 22, 07 3:54 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus carrying workers home from a textile factory today, identified 23 members of a tiny religious sect on board, and shot them to death. The bus was filled with Christians and Yazidis, a mostly Kurdish sect that worships an angel, the AP reports. More »
- Reid Declares War Is Lost
  
  ABC News | Apr 20, 07 8:31 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has upped the ante in the Dems' rhetoric on Iraq, saying the U.S. has "lost" in Iraq, and warning that, "the surge is not accomplishing anything." But he stopped short of threatening to pull funding from the war, the biggest gun in his policy arsenal. More »
- Baghdad Blasts Claim Nearly 200 LIives
  
  Guardian (UK) | Apr 19, 07 7:35 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Nearly 200 people were killed, and more than 200 injured, by five apparently coordinated explosions that rocked Baghdad yesterday. It was the deadliest day since the U.S. troop surge in the besieged capital, and a chilling backdrop to an announcement by PM al-Maliki that Iraqis will be completely in charge of the country by 2008. More »
- Al-Sadr Cronies Quit Cabinet
  
  Los Angeles Times | Apr 16, 07 1:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Six cabinet members loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have made good on their threat to resign from the Iraqi parliament, after the Prime Minister refused to set a date for the Americans to leave. But they insist—in spite of a spate of violence yesterday and today that many blame on Sadr's Madhi Army—that the move is intended to strengthen the government. More »
- Wolves Circle Wolfowitz
  
  Wall Street Journal | Apr 16, 07 6:52 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is hanging tough in the face of a crescendo of calls for his resignation after improperly promoting the interests of his live-in girlfriend. In a weekend of maneuvering, the bank's development committee offered no shelter, issuing a vague but harsh statement that the organization" adhere to a high standard of internal governance." More »
- Sadr Orders Loyalists to Quit Iraqi Cabinet
  
  Washington Post | Apr 16, 07 6:31 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Six Iraqi cabinet ministers are expected to resign today on orders from Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. "We are going to declare our withdrawal from government because the prime minister does not want to make a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq," a Sadr official told the Guardian . More »