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...three new soldier-citizens last week. Specialist Sergio Lopez, originally from Mexico City, moved to Bolingbrook, Ill., in 1998, and joined the Army in 2003. "He put his life on the line each day driving between observation posts and his unit's forward operating base in the Baghdad area," Bush said at the ceremony. Ten days into his second tour of Iraq in January, Lopez, 24, lost both of his legs to a roadside bomb. "There's no better way to prove that you want to be a part of this country than to serve overseas in a combat zone...
...skedaddle from Iraq would probably lead to far worse consequences, given Iraq's strategic location and potential oil wealth. So what do we do now? I asked six leading U.S. military strategists, four of them on active duty, and the despair was universal. "This is the battle for Baghdad that didn't take place in 2003," said a general, expressing the consensus view. "The strategy of moving more U.S. troops into the city is correct, but ... our troops should be partnered with Iraqi units, our military police embedded with their police. The Iraqis must take the lead...
...been responsible for much of the recent sectarian violence. But even if successful, a move against Sadr would leave the other prominent Shi'ite militia, the Badr Corps, which has close ties to Iran, in control of the Ministry of Interior. The second proposal was chilling. "We could partition Baghdad," said a general. "It's beginning to partition itself." But if the city were divided along the Tigris River-a popular rumor in the Iraqi blogosphere-approximately 1 million Sunnis would be stranded on the Shi'ite side and vice versa. "The human catastrophe would be extraordinary," said an Army...
...Spain--conquered by Islam in the 8th century, lost to Christianity in 1492. That's a long way from Haifa, from Lebanon, from Baghdad and even from Mecca. It's an even longer way from rationality, which is why the struggle against it will be long and painful, and enduringly surreal...
...episode, a precursor of Rice's outmaneuvering of Bush hard-liners when she became Secretary of State, is revealed in Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a forthcoming book about the Green Zone by the Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran. The details were confirmed for TIME by an official who was involved, who added a telling coda: Bremer actually liked the new arrangement because he "got to deal with Condi, who had the President's ear." Since moving out of the West Wing to take over State in early 2005, Rice has returned there often...