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...United Arab Emirates That's What Friends Are For The United Arab Emirates has written off all the money owed to it by Iraq--$7 billion, including interest--as the U.S. encourages Iraq's creditors to forgive some $70 billion remaining in foreign debt that the country accrued under former dictator Saddam Hussein. With Jordan appointing an ambassador to Iraq last week and Kuwait and Bahrain saying they are soon to follow, the U.A.E.'s announcement is being seen in Baghdad and Washington as evidence of warming relations between Shi'ite Iraq and its Sunni neighbors...
...Baghdad Iraq Wants a Withdrawal Date Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki implied on July 7 that he wants a new agreement with the U.S. to spell out when foreign troops will leave--the sort of timeline the Bush Administration has long opposed. Iraq's national security adviser chimed in the next day, saying Baghdad was "impatiently" waiting for the U.S. to pull out troops. "We're unambiguously talking about their departure," he said...
...rumblings of liberal discontent began last month, after Obama came out in favor of the Supreme Court's decision striking down Washington's handgun ban. That was followed by a press conference in which he appeared to backtrack on his commitment to a speedy withdrawal from Iraq and by a speech to an Ohio ministry in which he pledged to expand George W. Bush's faith-based-initiative program. In an interview with FORTUNE, he said his critique of free trade during the primaries was "overheated and amplified." By the time Obama voted for the wiretapping bill, Rosinski...
...something that it must be because I'm doing that politically," he told an audience in Powder Springs, Ga., on July 8. "I may just disagree with you." It's true that some of Obama's "shifts" have been more about a change in emphasis than in policy. On Iraq, for example, Obama has long said, "We have to be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in." The difference now is that he's emphasizing careful as much as getting...
...three-year life of the program, and the other projects 400,000. If that range proves correct, the plan wouldn't cost taxpayers much; the CBO estimates $729 million to $1.7 billion, depending on the uptake. By contrast, the Defense Department spends about $2 billion a week in Iraq...