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...existing ban on the photography of U.S. military caskets returning from Iraq would be altered to allow news coverage of the caskets with express consent from the families of the deceased. This ban had been in place for 18 years, enacted under the administration of President George H. W. Bush during the Gulf War. As the regulation stood, all photography of caskets of war dead was prohibited. Under these new provisions, caskets can be photographed only with the consent of the soldiers’ families. While this is a promising development, the revisions do not go far enough. The United...
...topple Fatah in the West Bank, where opinion polls show that Hamas is currently more popular than Fatah. As Ben Ami and his colleagues wrote, the idea of a peace process that bypasses Hamas may now have gone the way of much of the Middle East mythology of the Bush Administration...
...schadenfreude • Wall Street Journal article evokes strong feelings of in non-fans of the Bush administration
...should come as no surprise that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been quick to endorse emerging plans to hasten the departure of U.S. forces from his country. Maliki, after all, had opposed the Bush Administration's decision to increase U.S. troop levels in the surge of 2007, and he had forced a reluctant Washington to accept a hard deadline for withdrawal in the Status of Forces Agreement adopted late last year. The growing abilities of the Iraqi security forces and the strengthening of his political position after last month's provincial elections have added to Maliki's confidence...
...speech at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, was greeted with shrugs of contentment by most Iraqi political figures, largely because the Obama plan appears to be in step with what Iraqis had expected as a result of the Status of Forces Agreement signed by the Maliki government and the Bush Administration last December. That agreement requires most U.S. combat troops to be off the streets of Iraq by this summer and all U.S. troops to have left the country by 2011. (See pictures of Basra's return to normality...