Iraq

Published in Foreign Policy in Focus by Raed Jarrar and Erik Leaver “Last week, President Obama’s out-of-control military brass once again leaked a statement contrary to the [...]

Senior Fellow Raed Jarrar’s latest Op-Ed “The Iraq Withdrawal: Obama vs. the Pentagon” below: “This Monday, Army Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, asked [...]

When Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber, was asked why he robbed banks, he replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” President Obama is violating the “Willie Sutton [...]

Senior Fellow Raed Jarrar talks to RT about recent conflicts occurring in Iraq around the upcoming elections. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwPkElppU4s]

Senior Fellow Raed Jarrar’s latest, “Obama’s First Real Test in Iraq” appears today in Common Dreams. Last week, an Iraqi governmental commission banned more than a dozen [...]

[wpvideo wXs54qQ8] “Raed Jarrar, a political consultant for Peace Action – a US-based grassroots group, has explained why Iraqis feel so strongly about the Blackwater case.“Iraqis, in [...]

President Obama’s being awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace has elicited all kinds of responses from peace activists, especially in the Peace Action family, which is great! We’ve gotten [...]

Recently, top military brass have been questioning the usefulness of keeping U.S. fighting forces in Iraq.  Col. Timothy Reese, Chief of the Baghdad Operations Advisory Team, had this to say [...]

By Tom Hayden Robert McNamara died the other day as seven American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan.   It wasn’t the deaths on the same day that made me remember McNamara’s folly.   It was the [...]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/long-war-needs-long-peace_b_224154.html The simultaneous conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and beyond are all connected to the Pentagon strategy of [...]