<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : iraq : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : iraq : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq: 9 U.S. soldiers killed by car bomb ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17648/1/</link><description><![CDATA[In one of the deadliest attacks on American ground forces since the Iraq war started more than four years ago, a suicide car bomber struck a patrol base northeast of Baghdad and killed nine U.S. soldiers and wounded 20.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three candidates slain 2days before Iraq holds polls]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/91693/1/</link><description><![CDATA[In separate incidents, 3 candidates were gunned down Thursday in Iraq. This just two days before Iraq holds their first polls which were to test the fragile democratic system now in place.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Searching For A New American Policy For Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/62707/1/</link><description><![CDATA[retired CIA station chief and head of the Agency's counterterrorism staff examines the Bush administration's Iraq policy and finds that it cannot be successful. He calls for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, a &#8220;complete change&#8221; in U.S. goals and tactics in the Middle East, and rebuilding bridges to allies.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq Asks for Help to Stop Violence]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/12769/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Iraq&#8217;s Prime Minister, at a regional conference in Baghdad asked Iraq&#8217;s neighbors for help. He opened the conference with an address to back his efforts to stop violence in Iraq by refusing to finance attacks. The conference was quite tensionate mainly because of the two main players who attended the meeting: United States and Iran.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq War Dog to Retire with Fallen Marine's Family]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/44962/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Lex, a U.S. military dog whose handler and best friend was killed in Iraq gets a new assignment on Friday: retirement with the late Marine's family.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldier Stages Shooting to Avoid Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52332/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A soldier trying to avoid redeployment to Iraq had a friend shoot him in the leg and then claimed he'd been wounded in a holdup, authorities said.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq Unveils Shoe Statue]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/91672/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The shoe-ing that former President Bush received during a trip to Iraq has inspired an Iraqi artist to create a large &quot;sofa-sized&quot; copper and fiberglass shoe statue.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq war has 26 percent chance of success, University's statistical system predicts]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/23529/1/</link><description><![CDATA['Mission creep' in the Iraq conflict has dropped US chances of success from 70 percent to 26 percent, says a University of Georgia researcher. The predictions were made by a statistical system that has been accurate in 80 percent of former conflicts, said assistant professor Patricia L. Sullivan. The same approach gave a 93% chance of success for the first Iraq War in 1991.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Official: Iraq Gov't Missed All Targets]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26789/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;A progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reform...&quot;<br/><br/>These news blurbs never seem to get a lot of attention here on plime. Well, I think you all should know, anyway.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saddam Faked Having WMD To Prevent Iran From Invading Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48360/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein initially didn't think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Power of a Single Picture, and the Story of Staff Sgt Joe Cox]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/79480/1/</link><description><![CDATA[I met him half way through his second tour in Iraq. Cox&#8217;s story was one of the most human and powerful stories I have ever reported and you responded with hundreds of emails. Cox is trying to change Iraq &#8220;one picture at a time.&#8221;<br/><br/>He takes pictures of Iraqi kids, prints them out back at base, and then gives them to the kids. It maybe the only picture their family has.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama: Don't Stay in Iraq Over Genocide]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/28137/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide blasts kill at least 30 in Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/25079/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Three suicide bombings killed at least 30 people in Iraq today, mostly policemen, prisoners and tribal leaders, as insurgents launched fresh assaults in the violence-plagued country.ir]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/83356/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Military blogger Michael Yon writes about the New Iraq as he goes on his last mission embedded with US forces.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why we are so slow in pulling out of Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40814/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Here is a video of U.S. soldiers teaching Iraq soldiers jumping jacks.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queen To Lead Iraq War Dead Remembrance ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/134326/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The Queen is to lead a congregation at St Paul's Cathedral in paying tribute to those who fought and fell in the six-year war in Iraq]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blackwater might lose license to work in Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/85991/1/</link><description><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/q/blackwater/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Blackwater</a> has been investigated for numerous misdeeds and even outright crimes while in Iraq. It is thought that when their license expires next year that they will not get a renewal.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Soldier Removed From Iraq For Using Qur'an As Target Practice]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62364/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Such an act of desecration of the Muslim holy book could inflame anger against the U.S. military presence in Iraq, but an Iraqi community leader told Reuters an apology by senior American military commanders had helped calm tensions. Discussion <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/18/50038.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/19/iraq.quran/?iref=mpstoryview" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here.</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq to auction contracts on oil fields]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/126241/1/</link><description><![CDATA[On June 29 and 30, Iraqi officials are going to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE55T1NM20090630" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">auction</a> off oil contracts to foreign oil companies, with the aim of reviving production in six developed oil fields that have suffered from neglect since the Iraq war began in 2003]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to withdraw from Iraq, ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5178/1/</link><description><![CDATA[<i>&quot;The real choices facing the US at this point all involve withdrawals of one kind or another of US military forces from Iraq. But all withdrawals are not equal. Besides, failing in Iraq, however expensive, would not preclude succeeding elsewhere.&quot;</i><br/>Article delves into the various options open to the US]]></description></item></channel></rss>