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...Iraq has another chance. The surge of American military forces in 2007 bought time for Iraq's leaders to work out their problems. The U.S. is betting that they can. The Status of Forces Agreement worked out between the Bush Administration and the Iraqi government holds that the U.S. must withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by the end of August and the remaining 50,000 support troops by the end of 2011. The Obama Administration has stuck to the timetable. With one eye on a developing political maturity in Iraq, Vice President Joe Biden has predicted that Iraq could...
...rails while U.S. soldiers are still in the country. "No one will attempt a coup d'état while the U.S. is in Iraq," says an al-Maliki aide. "Unless the U.S. is behind it." But with a date set for the end of the American occupation, U.S. influence in Iraq is already waning. Ironically, the best proof of that is the rise, once again, of Ahmad Chalabi. The formerly exiled leader of the Iraqi National Congress - an anti-Saddam dissident group - helped the Pentagon plan the invasion of Iraq and was the candidate of U.S. neoconservatives...
...month. Much as they may enjoy their democracy, many Iraqis are concerned about who will fill the vacuum. Iran, for example. Tehran watched with glee as the U.S. toppled its archenemy Saddam, but worried that it was the next candidate for regime change, the Islamic Republic has supported anti-American Shi'ite militias and political parties ever since. Iran won't be the only country likely to flex its muscles after the election. Turkey - which has a restive Kurdish minority of its own - will try to block any further devolution of power to Kurdistan. And last month, Saudi Arabia...
...campaign for the U.S. Senate. But they surely had no idea that his rival's grooming habits would become an issue. Last week on Fox News, Crist blasted his surging opponent in the August Republican primary election, former Florida house speaker Marco Rubio, for having used a GOP-issued American Express card for personal purchases, including $133.75 spent at a deluxe Miami barbershop. Rubio is "trying to pawn himself off as a fiscal conservative," Crist said. "And yet he had a Republican Party of Florida credit card [and] he charged $130 for a haircut, or maybe it was a back...
...credentials - not only as a fiscal conservative but as the kind of scrupulous antipolitician the Tea Party movement gushes over. Crist's campaign points to the $250 million in pork-barrel spending Rubio ushered into his Miami district from 2000 to 2008, and the recent revelations of Rubio's American Express purchases have sparked charges of hypocrisy. From 2005 to 2008, Rubio racked up thousands of dollars in personal charges on his GOP AmEx, from the upscale barber to musical equipment, despite party and IRS rules that require the card to be used only for election-related purposes...