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15-day of Iraq "Self_Rule"...
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Invasion & Occupation in Iraq from 20 Mar 2003 to "actual" and "Physical" date of Cut_and_run ( TBD ) -
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Nations Slow to Deliver Iraq Aid
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20040712/ts_latimes/nationsslowtodeliveriraqaid&cid=2026&ncid=1480
WASHINGTON — Amid continuing efforts by the Bush administration to build international support for its mission in Iraq
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France, Iraq Re-Establish Diplomatic Ties
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040712/ap_on_re_eu/france_iraq&cid=518&ncid=716
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The "Sadrist" movement
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040712/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_going_political&cid=540&ncid=1480
Radical Iraq Shiite Group Going Political
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L. Paul Bremer's ham-fisted clusterfuckery when it came to dealing with Moqtada al-Sadr is why April 2004 was the worst month for US and Iraqi casualties since the declared end of "Major Combat Operations."
The decision to shut down al-Sadr's newspaper because of what Bremer called the newspaper's "lies" followed by the CPA's (by way either of Gen. Ricardo Sanchez or Gen. Mark Kimmitt[sp?]) call for the arrest or killing of al-Sadr served to ignite an already volatile situation and increased al-Sadr's public profile among the Iraqi people. As a result, Moqtada al-Sadr has gone from being a fringe who could have easily been dismissed by his own people as a loose cannon has, through the CPA's failures, gained such a level of recognition among Iraqi Shi'ites (and Iraqi's in general) as to have seemingly eclipsed the more moderate Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani as the big money player on the Iraqi political scene, and considering what a fanatic al-Sadr seems to be, that can only spell bad news in the long run.
but of course, like their predecessors in the Reagan administration, neither the Bush administration nor its appointees ever seem to actually think about long-term consequences when it's so much more fun to play cowboy and talk tough for the cameras so that the salivating lapdog-whore marketing firms we call our domestic media here in the US can sell it to the check-mailers and the kool-aid drinkers and the people to whom they have been marketing a steady diet of fear and paranoia so as to make them more tractable in the hopes of eleiciting a national cry of "yeah, go get him, kick their ass."
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