Amateur Hour In Iraq
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 10, 2006
The American occupation of Iraq was marked by what can only be called heroic amateurism. Although the intervention was in fact the sixth American led nation building operation in little more than a decade, the Bush administration failed to apply most of the lessons learned so painfully in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
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The Sunni Shiite Wars
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 09, 2006
Most of the headlines over King Abdullah of Jordan's visit to the White House this week concentrated on the joint remarks by the king and President Bush that tried to calm the sudden firestorm over the Danish newspaper's cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
UK To Leave Iraq Before Insurgency Ends
London (UPI) Feb 08, 2006
Britain will not wait until the insurgency is defeated before pulling its troops out of Iraq, Defense Secretary John Reid said Tuesday night.
An Accord On Iraq
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 06, 2006
An all-inclusive Iraq Reconciliation Conference that is expected to call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops is scheduled to be held in Baghdad this summer, a United Nations source said Monday.
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Insurgents Target Iraqis Over US Troops
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 03, 2006
The rate of U.S. military fatalities in Iraq fell dramatically over the past week, but the numbers of U.S. troops wounded, Iraqi troops killed and Iraqi civilians killed in terror bombings continued at their previous levels or marginally higher.
Outside View: Iraq, Terror War Shocks
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 04, 2006
Wars, most wars at least, run not evenly but in fits and starts, settling down into sputtering Sitzkrieg for long intervals, then suddenly shooting out wildly in wholly unpredicted directions. The war in Iraq has fallen into a set pattern for long enough that we should be expecting something new. I can identify three factors -- there may be more -- which could lead to some dramatic changes, soon.
Iraqi IEDs As Deadly As Ever
Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2006
The serious injury of new ABC network anchorman Bob Woodruff Sunday confirmed a grim trend we have been tracking for more than half a year in this column: The failure of U.S. coalition and allied Iraqi security forces to be able to come up with an effective counter-tactic to neutralize the effectiveness of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
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Mental Disorders Affect Third Of Iraq Vets
Washington (UPI) Jan 27, 2006
About 40,000 soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have been found to show symptoms of mental health disorders, a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) representative said Friday.
US Commander In Iraq Acknowledges Military Stretched
Diwaniyah, Iraq (AFP) Jan 26, 2006
The commander of multinational forces in Iraq, General George Casey, acknowledged Thursday that US military strength around the world is stretched, during a handover ceremony in the south of the country.
Iraq And Afghanistan Puts US Military Under Critical Strain
Washington (AFP) Jan 25, 2006
The US military has become perilously overstretched by the strain of repeated military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, two reports warned Thursday.
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Iraqi Women Seek Leadership Positions
Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2006
As the results of Iraq's parliamentary elections began to trickle in, one Washington based group of Iraqi expatriates were more concerned with gender, than with party or ethnic affiliation.
Another Grim Week In Iraq
Washington (UPI) Jan 18, 2006
It was another grim week in Iraq, with more massive attacks inflicting casualties on Iraqi civilians and security forces alike, and U.S. fatalities rising again, with little, if any signs of significant progress.
Missile Brought Down US Chopper In Iraq
Washington (AFP) Jan 18, 2006
A Russian-made surface-to-air missile launched by anti-American insurgents brought down a US military helicopter that crashed in Iraq on Monday, ABC News reported Tuesday, citing unnamed Pentagon officials.
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