MEANWHILE, BACK IN IRAQ (CONTINUED)

JUST IN CASE YOU HAD A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON AND THOUGHT PRES. FREDO MADE SENSE TODAY..

(Via Firedoglake)

Two of the Seven NYT Op-Ed Soldiers Have Died in Iraq
by Brandon Friedman
Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 09:09:26 PM PDT
Two of the seven soldiers who wrote the New York Times op-ed piece criticizing U.S. counterinsurgency strategy 3 ½ weeks ago have been killed in Iraq. Yance T. Gray and Omar Mora died Monday in a vehicle accident in Baghdad. The AP has reported on Yance Gray here, and KHOU, a Houston-area TV station has reported on Omar Mora here. Their families have been notified.
I have confirmed through a source in Iraq that these are indeed the same soldiers who penned the op-ed piece.
I don’t know what else to say.


(Via Atrios)

Compromise on Oil Law in Iraq Seems to Be Collapsing
By JAMES GLANZ
Published: September 13, 2007

BAGHDAD, Sept. 12 — A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq’s rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. ... Senior Iraqi negotiators met in Baghdad on Wednesday in an attempt to salvage the original compromise, two participants said. But the meeting came against the backdrop of a public series of increasingly strident disagreements over the draft law that had broken out in recent days between Hussain al-Shahristani, the Iraqi oil minister, and officials of the provincial government in the Kurdish north, where some of the nation’s largest fields are located.