“We may have wasted an opportunity in Basra to kill those that needed to be killed,” said one American defense official, who would speak candidly about the issue only if he was granted anonymity.
Iraqis who fought there have glossed over the tremendous — but hidden — role played by American Special Operations forces to clear out the toughest enemy fighters before the Iraqi soldiers arrived in full.
Many Sunnis are convinced that Mr. Maliki is trying to serve other masters: Iran, the Americans, or his own Dawa Party and the Islamic Supreme Council.
teacher in Amiriya, praised Mr. Maliki for weakening Mr. Sadr’s Mahdi Army but said she feared the Mosul operation was intended to satisfy the Maliki government’s patrons in Iran and telegraph a message to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “Do not worry, your excellency, we are also killing Sunnis.’ ”
some senior Iraqi officials close to Mr. Maliki said that without an American military safety net they are vulnerable to threats from outside and inside their borders.
Mr. Adeeb, the top Maliki adviser, said officials wanted the Americans to protect the Iraqi government against anything the government viewed as a threat — not just what the Americans saw as a threat.
Mr. Adeeb said. “Our army is not qualified to defend Iraq yet.”

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WASHINGTON - In a vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he wanted to "cut his [Barack Obama's] nuts out" and he accused the fellow Chicagoan of "talking down to black folks" by giving moral lectures to African-Americans, source said Jackson's shocking quotes were picked up by a hot mic before an interview on health care in Fox's Chicago studio last Sunday..

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As of
yesterday, 4,107 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq and more than 30,000
were wounded. She said the Iraq war has been ``tougher than any
of us really dreamed.''
People abroad are ``fascinated'' by Illinois Senator Barack
Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, Rice added when asked
what effect Obama's candidacy is having around the world.
Ultimately, whoever is
elected president of the United States will represent the United
States, not as a black president or as a woman president or as a
black secretary of state or as a woman secretary of state, but
the United States of America,'' Rice said.
Rice, with only seven months left as secretary of state, has
a wide diplomatic agenda, trying to make progress toward an
Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and a North Korean nuclear
disarmament deal while trying to persuade Iran to accept
incentives to abandon uranium enrichment, a process, once
mastered, that could lead to a nuclear bomb.
``They, too, believe that it's possible to deal with this
diplomatically. But we better have really robust diplomacy in
order to deal with this threat because the Iranians are making
progress,'' she said.
Rice said she believed Iran, which the administration has
accused of funneling weapons to Shiite militias in Iraq, had
``vulnerabilities'' in Iraq that the U.S. could exploit. She did
not specify what they were.

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The real trouble would be only if countries cut off oil supplies, and that won't happen.''
Mr. bin Laden has long made clear that his ultimate goal, more than wreaking havoc in the West, is toppling the Saud family. And Saudi Arabia would be a crucial target for anyone seeking to cut deeply into the world oil flow.
Saudi Arabia exports about eight million barrels a day and is the biggest single supplier of oil to the United States, accounting for 1.7 million barrels a day.
Even over the past year, as Iraq intermittently curtailed its exports of two million barrels a day to demand changes in the United Nations sanctions against it, Saudi Arabia acted as the ''swing producer,'' making up much of the difference.
Short of withering in the grip of a coup d'état, Saudi Arabia's oil exports could be cut if its rulers decide that they no longer can afford to support the United States-led campaign against terrorism.
If the bombings kill many civilians or if the war expands quickly, the Saudis may feel that they have no choice but to veer away from the United States and reduce the flow of oil.
If oil supplies from the Middle East dwindle, the impact on the United States would not be acute shortages, at least for a few months. Less of its oil comes from the Persian Gulf now, and more from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela.

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