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...back Stateside and working at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Pennington is particularly proud of the treatment she was able to provide for wounded Iraqi soldiers and civilians--including women and children--and considers it an important part of the U.S. mission in Iraq. "If you care for someone's children, they will love you," she says. "The Iraqis are so grateful for the care we provide, even though it sometimes puts them in danger...
...seat vacated by Senator David Vitter one year later. He was elected freshman-class president, and within a month of taking office, he masterminded a photo op at the 2005 State of the Union Address, convincing some of his fellow Republicans to ink their fingers purple in solidarity with Iraqi voters, who had recently cast ballots in an open election...
That is a decision for a President to make, but apparently not this President. George W. Bush has abdicated his control over the military mission and seems boggled by the political side of the Iraqi equation. He has lashed himself to the inept, unrepresentative government of Nouri al-Maliki but seems powerless to influence that government's actions. Bush's Iraq poster boys, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, are doing a wonderful job but lack the rank to make strategic regional policy. The Administration was so inept in dealing with Turkey that its designated mediator, retired General Joseph...
...between Kurds and Turks have reminded U.S. officials that they can take nothing in Iraq for granted, especially the country's greatest success story. Seventy percent of U.S. military air cargo reaches Iraq through Turkish airspace, and over the border flow the grandfather clocks and designer clothes that make Iraqi Kurdistan feel so much more prosperous than the rest of Iraq. But from the opposite direction come the attacks by Kurdish guerrillas on Turkish soldiers. It's an escalating decades-long fight for Kurdish rights that has already claimed close to 40,000 lives, including 42 Turkish soldiers in just...
...that spread across 11 provinces. Turkish lawmakers passed a resolution authorizing the military to invade Iraq and hunt down the militant group blamed for the attacks, the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. Turkish troops have massed at the border; the U.S., meanwhile, has pressed Turkey to show restraint and Iraqi leaders to rein in the PKK. In response, Iraq President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, said the local government would not turn over any Kurds to Turkey, not "even a Kurdish...