http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/scat/22 The latest news about Blogs in Iraq en support@iraqupdates.com support@iraqupdates.com PHP RSS Feed Generator The State of Law bloc which backs the current Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, could well end up with the most votes when the results are declared today, but that will not necessarily help him. The votes are so evenly spread, and the gap between the prime minister's bloc and that of his main... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69461/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:47:00 +0000 As I have done in the two previous Iraqi elections, I flew from Denver to San Diego to cast my vote. A month before the election date, I called a friend of mine that I visit while I am in San Diego to see if he knew where the voting location would be and whether anything had changed regarding voter... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69459/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:45:00 +0000 As Afghanistan has taken center stage in U.S. corporate media, with President Barack Obama announcing two major escalations of the war in recent months, the U.S. occupation of Iraq has fallen into the media shadows. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69403/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:04:00 +0000 Maybe when I was a boy, there was as much lying and cheating and fraud, and it just wasn't uncovered and reported. I somehow doubt it. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69383/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:50:00 +0000 History will decide, say people airily. Of course history will do no such thing. What they mean to say is that historians of the future will judge the times we live in and make all manner of assumptions on the basis that events can be seen clearer from a distance. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69232/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:29:00 +0000 Now is the moment for the Iraqi war film. Less than a week after the low-budget The Hurt Locker won Oscars for best picture and best director, Paul Greengrass's big-budget Green Zone has hit the screens. Following a series of Iraq war flops, the latest efforts show how the fictional Iraq has the potential... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69231/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:28:00 +0000 Iraq is embarking on an unprecedented expansion of its oil industry that aims to turn it into one of the world's top three producers in a few years. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69211/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:58:00 +0000 Like one of those perverse twists in the tales of “The Arabian Nights” (many of which, you will recall, took place in Baghdad and Basra), modern Iraq’s greatest source of prosperity — its vast reserves of oil and natural gas — could also be the biggest long-term threat to hopes for democracy.... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69210/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:57:00 +0000 Under Saddam Hussein, women in government got a year’s maternity leave; that is now cut to six months. Under the Personal Status Law in force since Jul. 14, 1958, when Iraqis overthrew the British-installed monarchy, Iraqi women had most of the rights that Western women do. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69239/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:43:00 +0000 There is a common ritual that I, like most Britons, have regularly encountered when riding a taxi in Damascus, Amman or Cairo over the past seven years. Talkative and curious, most cabbies will immediately ask where you are from and, on hearing London, raise the usual questions about Tony Blair and... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69235/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:34:00 +0000 "No red lines" is the official line from Iraq's leading figures and coalitions when it comes to the formation of the next Iraqi government, a process that could prove as tumultuous and controversial as events before the elections. If current estimates of the outcome are anything to go by,... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69105/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:20:00 +0000 There is no doubt that the people of Iraq were remarkable participating by the millions in the second national elections since the US occupied the oil-rich country in 2003, but whether this momentous event marks a new beginning in the strife-torn country remains to be seen. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69102/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:18:00 +0000 Regardless of whether it is Nuri al Maliki’s or Iyad Allawi’s bloc that will emerge victorious in the Iraqi elections, initial indications up until the publication of this article show that Allawi has won Arab Sunni governorates and al Maliki has won Arab Shia governorates. In geographical terms,... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69083/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:35:00 +0000 Premature Withdrawal Hubris? We’re bigger than that! We’ve now been at war with, or in, Iraq for almost 20 years, and intermittently at war in Afghanistan for 30 years. Think of it as nearly half a century of experience, all bad. And what is it that Washington seems to have concluded? In... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69039/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:05:00 +0000 The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war has run about half its course. Judging by the dominant reaction of the British press, its sole function is to prove what we all know to be true: that the invasion was immoral and Tony Blair is to blame. The surfeit of moral certainty among the commentators is... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69026/refid/RSS-blogs-18-03-2010 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:19:00 +0000