http://www.diigo.com/user/Tonycurzonprice/iraq Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:39:18 -0000 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:39:18 -0000 http://www.gallup.com/poll/106309/Iraq-War-Attitudes-Politically-Polarized.aspx <p>Iraq polarises republicans and democrats. this does not make it a deciding issue, but certainly a defining one. Gives a lot of power to the participants in the conflict to shift the american election one way or antother.</p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">Republicans reject the idea of a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, by a better than 2-to-1 margin, 65% to 32%. Democrats show an even greater margin in favor of a timetable, with 81% in favor and 15% opposed.</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/iraq' rel='tag'>iraq</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:39:18 -0000 http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict/iraq_sandstorm_4142.jsp <p></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">October 2006's civilian <a href="../conflict-iraq/iraq_deaths_4011.jsp">death-toll</a> of 3,709 lends support to such pessimism. The United Nations-reported figure - drawn from the Iraqi health ministry, hospitals and other sources - exceeds the calculation for July, itself the highest since the war began in March 2003.</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/iraq' rel='tag'>iraq</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:14:18 -0000 http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict/failure_iraq_4034.jsp <p></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">The last column in this series pointed to the aspiration that underlay the 2003 invasion - a free-market client state in Iraq, obedient to Washington's interests and with a sufficient American presence at four permanent bases to maintain US influence and ensure the survival of an Iraqi government</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/iraq' rel='tag'>iraq</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:11:28 -0000 60