WHERE DO THEY GO FROM HERE? The Iraqi Parliamentary Election And The Formation Of A New Government

The good news is that the Parliamentary elections finally came off in Iraq. The bad news is that voting was down from the 2009 Provincial elections, and that deadly violence continues to plague and terrorize Iraqi society.
But now the true test begins! In the weeks and months ahead, the two winning alliances in this election [...]

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THE IRAQI ELECTIONS 2010

HOPE OR DESPAIR:
The Iraqi Parliamentary Elections Are Now Upon Us

“What will matter most is the acceptance by the Iraqi people of the election results.”
Ad Melkert, U.N. Special Representative to Iraq

Today the first voters go to the polls in Iraq in what many consider to be a make-it-or-break-it time for Iraq’s embattled attempts to move beyond [...]

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MAPPING THE FUTURE OF IRAQ: AUTONOMOUS REGIONS ALLOWED UNDER THE IRAQI CONSTITUTION

As we pointed out in our 2008 PLAN V FOR VICTORY IN IRAQ, the 2005 IRAQ CONSTITUTION provides the option for Provinces to come together to form semi-autonomous REGIONS. The Constitution recognized the existing KURDISTAN REGION as a viable entity, and as such, can sersee thve as a model to emulate.
Kurdistan includes the three Provinces [...]

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SUCCESS AND TRAGEDY IN IRAQ

THE SUCCESS:
After many weeks of intense sectarian conflict and bitter negotiations, the IRAQI PARLIAMENT has finally approved the long-awaited ELECTION REFORM LAW. These reforms were essential if the 2010 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS were to have any legitimacy.
Without the reforms that have just been incorporated into the new law, the country faced the very real possibility that [...]

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Mustansiriya

Now read the terrible report of a bombing at this same university January 17th, 2007. Here it is below, in the blog of Zeyad, an Iraqi in the United States whose brother and sister were attending the university at the time of THAT bombing.
Remember Zeyad with the Healing Iraq blog?  This is what he had [...]

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Iraqi Campus Is Under Gang’s Sway

This article appeared in the October 20, 2009 edition of the New York Times
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and RIYADH MOHAMMED
BAGHDAD — Mustansiriya University, one of Iraq’s most prestigious universities, was temporarily closed this month by the prime minister in an effort to rid it of a shadowy student gang accused of murdering, torturing and raping fellow [...]

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SECURITY ABOVE ALL ELSE

The Iraqi government recently reported that 85,000 civilians were killed between 2004 and 2008 during the worst of the sectarian violence that pushed the country to the brink of full-scale civil war. Thousands more were seriously injured.
On Oct. 25, two massive car bombs destroyed the JUSTICE MINISTRY AND PROVINCIAL COUNCIL BUILDING in downtown Baghdad, killing [...]

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WHERE WE NOW STAND IN IRAQ!

The most dangerous aspect of the Iraq war is that the American public is not paying attention, and when the public loses interest, so does our leader.
THIS WAR IS NOT OVER! When Vice President Joe Biden was recently in Iraq, meeting with top Iraqi and Kurdish representatives, rockets and mortar shells landed in the fortified [...]

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Saving Iraq from Endless Chaos

Saving Iraq From Endless Chaos

With America’s Continued Stewardship

By Creating an Iraq Federated Republic

Read our message… See our map!

America’s Continued Stewardship
With a Bold but Realistic Plan
THE WAR WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE: What Is Going Terribly Wrong in Iraq and Why the United States, with the Help of the United Nations, Must Stay the Course
The final [...]

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FINALLY THE RIGHT SOLUTION:
THE IRAQ FEDERATED REPUBLIC

At GOALS FOR AMERICANS, we have argued forcefully and passionately for the FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF IRAQ. We provided the historical perspective and current realities in Iraq to justify our vision called PLAN V For Peace and Victory In Iraq, which we issued in Jan. 2008.
We believed that the FEDERALISM enshrined within the 2005 Iraqi Constitution [...]

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