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...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 be one of the Administration's "great achievements...
...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...
...disparity of the score, Cornell only had a 29-27 shot advantage over the Crimson. Harvard goaltender Kyle Richter had 21 saves on the game before being substituted by replacement netminder, junior Ryan Carroll who made three saves in the final ten minutes of the game. On the other end of the ice, the Big Red’s Ben Scrivens made 26 saves in keeping the Crimson offense at bay. Scrivens, a senior, was recently unanimously named to the All-Ivy League first team after leading the Ancient Eight with a 2.43 goals-against average, a .921 save percentage...
...under the name the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), and called the red shirts for their garb and flags, also contain groups who oppose military intervention in politics, some members of the business élite who benefited under Thaksin's rule and some republicans who want an end to Thailand's constitutional monarchy. (Read a Q&A with Thaksin...
...Opinion polls from the ABAC and Suan Dusit survey centers, however, consistently show that the majority of Thais want all political street demonstrations to end. And in Monday's Bangkok Post, Pornsil Patcharintanakul, deputy secretary general of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, was quoted as saying, "We strongly disagree if the government bows to the protesters' demands and dissolves the parliament, as all efforts to recoup the fragile economy would be back to square...