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...Mind you, the Spartans might also be the Iraqi insurgents, leaving their homes to repel a foreign invader. Or they could be seen as Greece's private mercenary army initiating their own mischief: a Blackwater USA of the Aegean. Or Stephen Colbert, analyzing the movie on his show, could be onto something: that the wolf at the beginning of the film is the liberal press, various monsters are Nancy Pelosi and Tim Russert, and the Persian messenger whom Leonidas kicks over the edge of a deep well is Scooter Libby...
...Aizenhawar Marrogi, a former colleague of Gerber's, does not quite believe he is dead. An Iraqi immigrant named after Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marrogi was once a star of Gerber's department, bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars in research grants and computerizing the department's billing system. But Marrogi and Gerber were soon quarreling over the billing system, with Gerber setting up his own balance sheet and issuing accounting statements that Marrogi and other physicians disputed. The dubious statements included payments for services at Charity Hospital, a public facility where Tulane doctors work with indigent patients. Marrogi believes...
Fort Campbell is a long way from the island in the Thar Thar Canal, north of Baghdad. But a court-martial at the U.S. military base, which straddles Kentucky and Tennessee, has begun to examine in detail what happened in that Iraqi locale in May 2006, with polarizing consequences for the way Americans perceive the way the war is being waged...
...Staff Sergeant Raymond L. Girouard, 24, went on trial Tuesday, defending himself against charges of premeditated murder, obstruction of justice and other charges for ordering soldiers in his squad to kill three unarmed Iraqi detainees and conspiring to cover up the deaths. The case is one among several that have inflamed critics of the U.S. The prosecution has also stirred anger among Girouard's hometown supporters, who say he is being made a scapegoat in the case...
...lessons for Bush's attempt to stabilize Baghdad. Popular support is what wins counterinsurgency wars, and it is the institutions of state that produce that support. "We have a policy of 'clear and hold,'" Santos says, "But the 'hold' is crucial." After you drive out insurgents, as American and Iraqi troops are attempting to do in Baghdad, "You must come in with the rest of the state: doctors, roads, schools," Santos says...