Revealed: a new counter-insurgency strategy to carve up the city into sealed areas. The tactic failed in Vietnam. So what chance does it have in Iraq?
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Now the South Erupts
The eruption of demonstrations in the south of Iraq this week could rob the occupation forces of what was considered a critical bastion of support.
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'Surge' Architect Rejects 'War Czar' Job
Commander - In - Chief{?}, War pResident, Bored with this adventure, just like he was with serving his country at a time of another Debacle, but can't find new appointed Commander - In - Chief to take the Blame, and Daddy doesn't seem to want to help neither, not this time!
The widespread doubts within U.S. military and intelligence circles that George W. Bush’s Iraq War “surge” can succeed were underscored when one of the plan’s architects, retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, was one of three generals to rebuff a White House offer of a new job dubbed “war czar.”
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West Point grads exit service at high rate
Recent graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point are choosing to leave active duty at the highest rate in more than three decades, a sign to many military specialists that repeated tours in Iraq are prematurely driving out some of the Army's top young officers.
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Hidden Camera - Baghdad
Adel, one of the Hometown Baghdad Iraqi videobloggers, recklessly hides a video camera in his bag and goes out to film the deserted, rubbish littered streets of his neighbourhood, a Sunni stronghold in Baghdad. The guy deserves a medal for this. If he were caught sneakily filming like that by insurgents or militias, he would be executed on the spot for being a suspected "spy" for either side.
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"Exams" - Hometown Baghdad
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"Mentally F-ed Up" - Hometown Baghdad
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