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Maliki: Iraq has the right to order US forces off Iraqi sovereign soil
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki suggested that US forces might be asked to leave if the two countries cannot agree on the new status of forces agreement…
Treaty tensions mount as Iraq tells the US it wants all troops back in barracks
American troops in Iraq would be confined to their bases and private security guards subject to local law if Iraq gets its way in negotiations with the US over the future status of American forces…
Neocon Nation: Neoconservatism, c. 1776
“The Iraq War will always be linked with the term ‘neoconservative,’” George Packer wrote in his book on the war, and he is probably right. The conventional wisdom today is that a small group of neoconservatives seized the occasion of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, to steer the nation into a war that would never have been fought had not this group of ideologues managed somehow to gain control of national policy. This version of events implicitly rejects another and arguably simpler interpretation…
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