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...coordinated series of seven bombs detonated in the northern city of Kirkuk last week, which may be a sign that the long-feared battle between Kurds and Arabs for control of that oil-rich region is about to begin. That makes it doubly unlikely that the Kurdish brigades will deploy to Baghdad. Furthermore, whack-a-mole happens: there are indications the Shi'ite militias are going to ground or leaving Baghdad to fight elsewhere, perhaps in places like Kirkuk, which means, Senator Reed says, "we'll be doing their job for them, fighting the Sunnis in Baghdad...
...highly anticipated court-martial of Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada for refusing to deploy to Iraq ended in a mistrial on Wednesday, a surprising development that left military prosecutors clearly frustrated, observers stunned and defense attorneys claiming that the military had blown its only chance at a conviction...
...Watada, 28, refused to deploy to Iraq last June, calling the war there "manifestly illegal," and he had planned on using his court-martial proceedings to put the war itself on trial. He wanted to prove that the war was launched in violation of U.S. and international laws, and thus that he had a duty to his Army oath, and to his own conscience, to refuse the "illegal order" to serve in Iraq. In proving this, Watada hoped, he would inspire other soldiers to reconsider their own Iraq service...
...David Cameron: It has been unfamiliar for the last few decades because there was a great division between the parties. When I grew up in the 1980s, there was this great division between the center right and the left. We wanted to be part of NATO and to deploy cruise missiles. They wanted to leave NATO and unilaterally disarm. We wanted to privatize state-run industries. They wanted to nationalize the top 100 companies. We wanted to reform the trade unions. They wanted to give more power to the trade unions. There were huge, ideological divisions. That has changed. With...
...sustain this surge. You can deploy the people, but you can't sustain it. They're going to have to send people back that have not had a year [off] in the U.S. to retrain. And they're going to extend people [already in Iraq]. I'm going to look into the post-traumatic stress, and ask, "How many people are you sending back that haven't been counseled...