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added 2007 Wed Jun 27 7:00:00 by unknown user
Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Which go where gets kinda sticky, because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class.
added 2007 Mon Jun 25 7:00:00 by unknown user
Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Which go where gets kinda sticky, because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class.
added 2007 Fri Jun 15 5:03:47 by populist
Vanity keeps people from admitting they've been wrong. Pride will not let them believe they have been. The President & his team, most in Congress, and some common people suffer from this refusal to be honest with themselves. This is how they protect their egos - and that is all those who ignore the truth have left at the end of the day.
added 2007 Thu Jun 14 22:06:27 by populist
Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq, overall levels of violence in the country have not decreased, as attacks have shifted away from Baghdad and Anbar, where American forces are concentrated, only to rise in most other provinces, according to a Pentagon report released yest
added 2007 Thu Jun 14 19:01:11 by populist
I was shocked to find out tonight that the United States was arming Sunni insurgents in Iraq so long as they promise to use them against the bad guys and not us. I was doubly shocked to find out that they've quietly been doing this for the last few months.
added 2007 Thu Jun 14 17:27:43 by Aidenag
The long-awaited testimony of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former CIA Director George Tenet on prewar intelligence on Iraq has been postponed while the members continue to interview key players in the events leading up to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's infamous 2003 speech at the United Nations.
added 2007 Thu Jun 14 9:41:58 by STONERS
The U.N. Security Council agreed Wednesday to an Iraqi request to extend the mandate of the U.S.-led multinational force after the country's foreign minister said the troops were "vitally necessary."
added 2007 Wed Jun 13 21:39:48 by Alexia
Militants blew up the two golden minarets of an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra today, evading tight security to again target a beloved site already damaged last year in a blast that unleashed fierce sectarian warfare.
added 2007 Wed Jun 13 20:12:31 by populist
There is something surreal in all this. The U.S. government is warning Iran against meddling in Iraq. But the U.S. government is meddling in Iraq! Is there a clearer case of a pot calling a kettle black?

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added 2007 Wed Jun 13 20:06:08 by Alexia
A popular story currently on the Netscape homepage concerns Jake's Life, a blog written by Jake Wood, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq. In this email interview with sports blog Lion in Oil, the 24-year-old Wood says he started his own blog simply to stay in touch with his family and friends.
added 2007 Wed Jun 13 14:24:34 by newstrackern
Insurgents blew up the remaining two minarets of the Askariya Mosque, a holy Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra that was badly damaged in a similar attack in early 2006, a Samarra Police official told CNN. There was no immediate word on casualties.
added 2007 Wed Jun 13 9:39:25 by puiahappy
* Fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill to include withdrawal date, Reid says * Second approach would cut off funding for the war in April 2008 * Debate will begin before end of June, majority leader says * Another proposal would mandate down time between deployments
added 2007 Tue Jun 12 21:46:17 by King1Con
BALAD - Iraqi Army Soldiers conducted a maritime operation June 1 seizing explosives and weapons during a cache sweep of river banks and caves in the vicinity of Rawah on the Euphrates River. With Coalition Forces present as advisors, Iraqi Forces recovered more than 70 pounds of homemade explosives, one 57mm rocket and a sniper rifle.
added 2007 Tue Jun 12 21:45:29 by King1Con
MAHMUDIYAH, IRAQ - Iraqi Army Soldiers conducting a search of a suspected insurgent's home discovered a cache of propaganda and improvised explosive device materials, near Lutafiyah, Iraq at about 4:10 p.m., May 30. A patrol discovered anti-coalition/anti government books and CDs along with 42 rolls of copper wire, typically used to initiate IEDs.
added 2007 Tue Jun 12 21:44:44 by King1Con
BAGHDAD - Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team uncovered a weapons cache north of Sadr City, in the eastern portion of the Iraqi capital June 1. A tip from a local citizen led the Soldiers to the cache. It was found in an area known to locals as the "Jaish Al Mahdi Forbidden Zone," where some rocket at
added 2007 Tue Jun 12 21:43:42 by King1Con
CAMP TAJI, Iraq - Baghdad Soldiers captured two men attempting to emplace an improvised explosive device on a major road near Dubai, Iraq, north of Baghdad, May 31. Soldiers from Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment were conducting a mounted patrol searching for insurgents responsible for IED attacks in the area when the incident occurred
added 2007 Tue Jun 12 21:43:00 by King1Con
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Coalition Forces killed one terrorist and detained eight suspected terrorists, including an alleged senior al-Qaeda in Iraq leader, in operations Saturday targeting the terrorist network. Coalition Forces raided a building in Hit while tracking an al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist leader. The ground force detained three suspected terroris
added 2007 Tue Jun 12 21:42:06 by King1Con
ERBIL, IRAQ -The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) took official control of three provinces from Multi-National Force - Iraq at a formal ceremony in Erbil, Iraq May 30. "Today's event nearly doubles the number of provinces under Iraqi control and marks the fifth, sixth and seventh provinces to assume security responsibility, demonstrating anot
added 2007 Tue Jun 12 17:15:37 by populist
In an audio report, Koppel points out that in a recent debate Senator Hillary Clinton said that her first priority if elected would be to "bring our troops home." She did not say ALL our troops, Koppel points out, and she does not mean ALL our troops.
added 2007 Tue Jun 12 16:19:53 by TimALoftis
"Slow as a turtle" was how one Iraqi lawmaker on Tuesday described Iraq's faltering progress in meeting political benchmarks set by Washington to encourage national reconciliation and end sectarian violence.
added 2007 Tue Jun 12 4:17:14 by ameliog
"This is a really bad idea, one that will only feed the image of the US as the occupier, the colonial power," says a former official with the American provisional authority. "There's no way long-term military bases are going to be acceptable to a majority of the Iraqi population."
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added 2007 Tue Jun 12 0:39:29 by tehranchik
Profile on Iraqi hip hop artist, Narcy, who's Middle East conflict inspired lyrics are as hard hitting as his flow.
added 2007 Mon Jun 11 23:07:15 by jovial
The idea of fighting a war on behalf of U.S. credibility hasn't been debated since the height of the Vietnam War. Yet that is precisely what some Iraq war supporters are now advocating.
added 2007 Mon Jun 11 21:45:10 by luvmyprez
He writes that he is not trying make a political statement and requests that it not be turned into something it's not. Please respect those wishes.
added 2007 Mon Jun 11 10:37:38 by Aidenag
Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq, an example of how the U.S. has continued to cooperate with the Sudanese regime even while condemning its suspected role in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur.
added 2007 Mon Jun 11 6:12:15 by bubba2
Deep in a newly released 300-page report on the benefits system for the nation's veterans lies a first look at the dimensions of the disabilities the Iraq- and Afghanistan-war injured are suffering. Through March, more than 176,000 U.S. veterans of those ongoing conflicts had filed claims for disability compensation.
added 2007 Mon Jun 11 5:48:06 by populist
A FORMER US Army torturer has described the traumatic effects of American interrogation techniques in Iraq - on their victims and on the perpetrators themselves.
added 2007 Sun Jun 10 19:53:40 by Wil
"As I sit here in DFW international airport and wait to return from leave, I am struck by the willful ignorance of those who support this war. These men and women, generally meaning the best, choose to ignore and discard any negative news coming from Iraq as biased against anything from the military, the war, or the President."
added 2007 Sun Jun 10 19:42:38 by TechnologyExpert
On a winter day when bomb blasts at an Iraqi university killed dozens and the UN estimated that 34,000 civilians in Iraq had died in 2006, MSNBC spent nearly nine minutes on the stories during the 1 p.m. hour. A CNN correspondent in Iraq did a three-minute report about the bombings. Neither story merited a mention on Fox News Channel that hour.
added 2007 Sun Jun 10 7:24:44 by Beau7890
U.S. military officials here are increasingly envisioning a "post-occupation" troop presence in Iraq that neither maintains current levels nor leads to a complete pullout, but aims for a smaller, longer-term force that would remain in the country for years. One of the guiding principles is that the U.S. should leave Iraq more intellige


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