Post-invasion Iraq

For more information, see the Wikipedia article "Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–present"

This is a topic, with start date May 1, 2003 and unknown end date.

Its theme(s) are Middle East, War.

Summary of positions for this topic

• United States should increase troop levels (84 items)
• United States should negotiate with Syria (22 items)
• United States should negotiate with Iran (39 items)
• United States should change its approach (7 items)
• Iraq should be split up (30 items)
• Iraqis should vote on troop pullout (2 items)
• United States should fight more ruthlessly (15 items)
• Iraq Study Group's recommendations should be followed (48 items)
• Iraqi government should crack down on Shiite militias (9 items)
• Coalition troops should pull out (224 items)

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The Silence That Kills by Thomas Friedman (The New York Times, March 2, 2007) (view)

Martin Luther Al-King? by Thomas Friedman (The New York Times, January 24, 2007) (view)

The Grand Delusion by David Brooks (The New York Times, 9/28/2006) (view)

Coalition troops should pull out

For

Leaving Iraq: about time by The Miami Herald editorial board (The Miami Herald, October 29, 2011) (view)

After 9 years, time for troops to leave Iraq by USA Today editorial board (USA Today, October 25, 2011) (view)

End the occupation by Medea Benjamin (USA Today, January 22, 2009) (view)

Britain leaves Iraq in shame. The US won't go so quietly by Seumas Milne (The Guardian, December 11, 2008) (view)

Now That We’ve ‘Won,’ Let’s Come Home by Frank Rich (The New York Times, June 22, 2008) (view)

Staying in Iraq for proxy war by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2008) (view)

Everything His President Wants to Hear by Robert Scheer (The Huffington Post, April 9, 2008) (view)

The Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker Hearings and What the Surge in Fact Proves by John Murtha (The Huffington Post, April 8, 2008) (view)

Five years is long enough by Darcy Burner (The Seattle Times, March 25, 2008) (view)

Iraq: No light at the end of the tunnel by Carl Hiassen (The Miami Herald, March 23, 2008) (view)

Iraq, $5,000 Per Second? by Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times, March 23, 2008) (view)

A War We Must End by John Podesta, Ray Takeyh, Lawrence Korb (The Washington Post, February 26, 2008) (view)

Unfinished Debate on Iraq by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, January 13, 2008) (view)

Iraq: The Real Cost of War Can't Be Ignored by Bill Richardson (The Huffington Post, December 19, 2007) (view)

Bring the troops home by Maxine Waters (USA Today, December 13, 2007) (view)

Iraq: The Elephant in the Room by Bill Richardson (The Huffington Post, December 7, 2007) (view)

U.S. should take advantage of improved security in Iraq to withdraw by David Gompert (San Francisco Chronicle, December 2, 2007) (view)

Even the British are leaving Iraq by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2007) (view)

Democrats' So-Called Leaders are Not Leading on Iraq by Christopher Dodd (The Huffington Post, October 5, 2007) (view)

The Surge Has Failed; No Residual Troops by Bill Richardson (The Huffington Post, August 24, 2007) (view)

The misleading Vietnam analogy by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, August 23, 2007) (view)

Losing sleep over Iraq by San Francisco Chronicle editorial board (San Francisco Chronicle, July 18, 2007) (view)

‘Inspiring Progress’ on Iraq? by Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times, July 12, 2007) (view)

This is not our fight by Robert Byrd, Hillary Clinton (New York Daily News, July 10, 2007) (view)

Time to Say Enough of Bush's War by Harvey Edwards (The Huffington Post, July 10, 2007) (view)

The Road Home by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, July 8, 2007) (view)

We've Lost. Here's How To Handle It. by Steve Simon, Ray Takeyh (The Washington Post, June 17, 2007) (view)

Dying for an Iraq That Isn't by Harold Meyerson (The Washington Post, May 30, 2007) (view)

Concluding the Terrible Mistake We Made in Iraq by Robert Byrd (The Huffington Post, May 17, 2007) (view)

Bring them home by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2007) (view)

Democrats: Don't cave on ending war in Iraq by Star Tribune editorial board (Star Tribune, May 3, 2007) (view)

A more realistic timetable for withdrawal by Steve Simon (The Boston Globe, April 15, 2007) (view)

How to Get Out of Iraq by Juan Cole (The Nation, April 9, 2007) (view)

Out of Iraq in '08 by The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board (The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 1, 2007) (view)

The Best Way To Support Our Troops by Stephen E. Wright (The Hartford Courant, March 25, 2007) (view)

Why the Dems Should Go for It by Peter Beinart (Time, March 22, 2007) (view)

Failure of will: Congress lacks the courage to end a pointless war by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial board (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 18, 2007) (view)

A Plan for Iraq by Harry Reid (The Huffington Post, March 9, 2007) (view)

Conscience and the War by Stephen F. Cohen (The Nation, March 8, 2007) (view)

Not so willing: Britain, Denmark show the way on Iraq by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial board (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 22, 2007) (view)

Support the Troops: Bring Them Home by Michael Kinsley (Time, February 19, 2007) (view)

Victory Is Not an Option by William Odom (The Washington Post, February 11, 2007) (view)

A road map out of Iraq by Zbigniew Brzezinski (Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2007) (view)

Congress Must Act On Iraq by Tom Vilsack (The Washington Post, February 10, 2007) (view)

The Texas Strategy by Paul Krugman (The New York Times, January 15, 2007) (view)

Same Product, New Package by Sherrod Brown (The Huffington Post, January 10, 2007) (view)

The Least Immoral Choice by Sally Quinn (The Washington Post, January 9, 2007) (view)

Escalation? It's Not His Decision to Make by Ted Kennedy (The Huffington Post, January 9, 2007) (view)

United States should negotiate with Iran

For

The Wisdom In Talking by John Kerry (The Washington Post, May 24, 2008) (view)

Rethinking Iran by Samantha Power (Time, January 17, 2008) (view)

The Road Home by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, July 8, 2007) (view)

A Diplomatic Avenue by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, March 1, 2007) (view)

Talk of talks: Let's hope the U.S. is serious on Iran and Syria by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial board (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 1, 2007) (view)

Bullying Iran by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, February 1, 2007) (view)

Not-So-Strange Bedfellow by Thomas Friedman (The New York Times, January 31, 2007) (view)

The Time to Negotiate Is Now by Robert K. Brigham (The Washington Post, January 14, 2007) (view)

The Smart Surge: Diplomacy by Wesley Clark (The Washington Post, January 8, 2007) (view)

Iraq should be split up

For

Make Walls, Not War by Peter Galbraith (The New York Times, October 23, 2007) (view)

Tell the Truth About the Surge by Robert Baer (Time, January 17, 2007) (view)

Iraq Study Group's recommendations should be followed

For

Bipartisanship is good for both sides by Anne-Marie Slaughter (Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2007) (view)

Getting Out of Iraq by The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board (The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 2007) (view)

It's time for Bush to get an Iraq policy that works by Trudy Rubin (The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 2007) (view)

Lesser evils and an exit strategy by The Boston Globe editorial board (The Boston Globe, July 10, 2007) (view)

A Path to Common Ground by James Baker (The Washington Post, April 5, 2007) (view)

Bush's baby steps by Joan Vennochi (The Boston Globe, March 4, 2007) (view)

The Two Vacuums by Peggy Noonan (The Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2007) (view)

United States should fight more ruthlessly

For

Out-thought by the enemy by Ralph Peters (New York Post, June 1, 2007) (view)

Why Iraq's So Hard by Ralph Peters (New York Post, May 14, 2007) (view)

Baghdad Blues by Ralph Peters (New York Post, May 11, 2007) (view)

Mook's Spooked by Ralph Peters (New York Post, February 15, 2007) (view)

W's Last Chance by Ralph Peters (New York Post, January 11, 2007) (view)

United States should negotiate with Syria

For

A Diplomatic Avenue by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, March 1, 2007) (view)

Talk of talks: Let's hope the U.S. is serious on Iran and Syria by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial board (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 1, 2007) (view)

The Time to Negotiate Is Now by Robert K. Brigham (The Washington Post, January 14, 2007) (view)

United States should increase troop levels

For

Is Iraq turning into Yugoslavia? by Max Boot (Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2007) (view)

Iraq is no 'Nam by Helle Dale (The Washington Times, January 31, 2007) (view)

Baghdad Is Key by Stephen J. Hadley (The Washington Post, January 29, 2007) (view)

Betraying America by New York Post editorial board (New York Post, January 28, 2007) (view)

All We Are Saying... Is Give Petraeus a Chance by Frederick W. Kagan, William Kristol (The Weekly Standard, January 22, 2007) (view)

No better idea by Max Boot (Los Angeles Times, January 17, 2007) (view)

Are we doing enough? by Mona Charen (The Washington Times, January 15, 2007) (view)

A Skeptic's Case For the Surge by Michael O'Hanlon (The Washington Post, January 14, 2007) (view)

Noble effort our only alternative to awful defeat by John Podhoretz (New York Post, January 11, 2007) (view)

W's Last Chance by Ralph Peters (New York Post, January 11, 2007) (view)

A Shift not a Surge by The Times editorial board (The Times, January 11, 2007) (view)

Stabilize Iraq by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, January 10, 2007) (view)

A Heavier Iraq 'Footprint' by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2007) (view)

Fingers in the wind by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, January 8, 2007) (view)

Send More Troops by John McCain (The Washington Post, January 7, 2007) (view)

The Consequences of Failure in Iraq (Gerecht) by Reuel Marc Gerecht (The Weekly Standard, January 6, 2007) (view)

Iraqi government should crack down on Shiite militias

For

Don't prejudge the surge by Jack Kelly (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 28, 2007) (view)

A Plausible Plan B by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, January 19, 2007) (view)

Anatomy of a Wrong Approach by David S. Broder (The Washington Post, January 18, 2007) (view)

The Leadership Gap by The Times editorial board (The Times, January 18, 2007) (view)

Pressure Iraqis by Orlando Sentinel editorial board (Orlando Sentinel, January 11, 2007) (view)

Bush's Last Stand: Is president's new Iraq strategy too little, too late? by The Dallas Morning News editorial board (The Dallas Morning News, January 11, 2007) (view)

Squeezing Baghdad by Chicago Tribune editorial board (Chicago Tribune, January 11, 2007) (view)

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All items that address this topic (420 total)

Title	Author	Source	Date
Must Iraq Stay Whole?	Ralph Peters	The Washington Post	April 20, 2003
The Three-State Solution	Leslie H. Gelb	The New York Times	November 25, 2003
Iraq: Three from one doesn't add up	Nir Rosen	Asia Times Online	November 27, 2003
Why we must never abandon this historic struggle in Iraq	Tony Blair	The Observer	April 11, 2004
Anti-war, Pro-democracy	The Nation editorial board	The Nation	May 12, 2005
The ticking clock	The Seattle Times editorial board	The Seattle Times	July 3, 2005
The price of occupation	Tariq Ali	The Guardian	July 8, 2005
Why Iran Wants to Talk	The Washington Post editorial board	The Washington Post	March 18, 2006
The fantasy is over, we must partition Iraq and get out now	Simon Jenkins	The Times	May 21, 2006
Staying the wrong course in Iraq	Max Boot	Los Angeles Times	June 28, 2006
Iraq’s salvation lies in letting it break apart	Peter Galbraith	The Sunday Times (UK)	July 16, 2006
Time to Talk	Leslie H. Gelb	The Wall Street Journal	July 28, 2006
Back To Baghdad	Ralph Peters	New York Post	July 28, 2006
Time for Plan B	Thomas Friedman	The New York Times	August 4, 2006
The generals' worry	The Boston Globe editorial board	The Boston Globe	August 5, 2006
Civil War? What Civil War?	Richard Cohen	The Washington Post	August 8, 2006
Telling it right	Cal Thomas	The Washington Times	August 9, 2006
The case for staying on	The Economist editorial board	The Economist	August 10, 2006
Antiwar Wackadoos Are Winning	Rosa Brooks	Los Angeles Times	August 11, 2006
It’s time for Bush and Blair to try plan B – the humility option	Simon Jenkins	The Times	August 13, 2006
Bush's Vietnam?	Rich Lowry	National Review	August 15, 2006
Meanwhile, in Baghdad	The New York Times editorial board	The New York Times	August 16, 2006
When will Bush admit the obvious about Iraq?	Steve Chapman	Chicago Tribune	August 20, 2006
Gone to pieces	Peter Galbraith	New York Daily News	August 22, 2006
Bush clings to a lost cause in Iraq	Joan Vennochi	The Boston Globe	August 23, 2006
The Battle of Baghdad	Zalmay Khalilzad	The Wall Street Journal	August 23, 2006
Are Bush's critics right?	Tony Blankley	The Washington Times	August 23, 2006
A Plan to Hold Iraq Together	Joe Biden	The Washington Post	August 24, 2006
Break Up Iraq to Save It	Michael O'Hanlon	Los Angeles Times	August 27, 2006
Breaking Up (a Country) Is Hard to Do	Gary Bass	The Washington Post	August 27, 2006
Iraq: Still Worth Some Waiting	David Ignatius	The Washington Post	August 27, 2006
What Iraq Needs	Samir Sumaidaie	New York Post	August 28, 2006
Give voters a choice about war	Helen Thomas	Seattle Post-Intelligencer	September 1, 2006
Iraq: A Civil War We Can Still Win	Charles Krauthammer	The Washington Post	September 8, 2006
Support for Bush's war in Iraq is crumbling fast	James Klurfeld	Newsday	September 8, 2006
Switch the fight to Afghanistan	John Kerry	New Hampshire Union Leader	September 9, 2006
Reinforce Baghdad	William Kristol • Rich Lowry	The Washington Post	September 12, 2006
The Right Troops in the Right Places	Seth Moulton	The New York Times	September 15, 2006
Send more troops: Iraq must be secured	New Hampshire Union Leader editorial board	New Hampshire Union Leader	September 15, 2006
Are We Winning in Iraq?	Mackubin Thomas Owens	National Review	September 19, 2006
Warm and fuzzy talk is a weak defense against terrorists	Cal Thomas	The Salt Lake Tribune	September 19, 2006
More Troops	Frederick W. Kagan • William Kristol	The Weekly Standard	September 27, 2006
The Grand Delusion	David Brooks	The New York Times	September 28, 2006
Majority of Iraqis Approve of Attacks on US Troops, Why Are We Still There?	Arianna Huffington	The Huffington Post	September 28, 2006
Don't back down now	Duncan Hunter	The Washington Times	October 2, 2006
More Troops, Please	Pete Hegseth	The Wall Street Journal	October 3, 2006
Time for Action -- Not Rhetoric -- In Iraq	John Murtha	The Huffington Post	October 6, 2006
One Iraq or three?	Chicago Tribune editorial board	Chicago Tribune	October 8, 2006
Active Appeasement	Michael Ledeen	National Review	October 9, 2006
No More Troops	Ralph Peters	New York Post	October 10, 2006
Breaking Up Ain't Hard to Do	Michael Young	Reason	October 12, 2006
Confessions of a 'Defeatocrat'	John Murtha	The Washington Post	October 15, 2006
Running from Iraq	Reuel Marc Gerecht	The Weekly Standard	October 16, 2006
Iraq Was a Worthy Mistake	Jonah Goldberg	Los Angeles Times	October 19, 2006
Plan B	Eliot A. Cohen	The Wall Street Journal	October 20, 2006
If we had known then...	Jeff Jacoby	The Boston Globe	October 22, 2006
There are 300m Americans, but still not enough to rule the world	Niall Ferguson	The Daily Telegraph	October 22, 2006
Yes, Iraq is deeply troubling, but let's not talk ourselves into defeat...	Melanie Phillips	Daily Mail	October 23, 2006
Time for Bush to talk to Iran and Syria	Simon Tisdall	The Guardian	October 25, 2006
Kill Muqtada Now	Ralph Peters	New York Post	October 26, 2006
The Arithmetic of Failure	Paul Krugman	The New York Times	October 27, 2006
Bush's refusal to see his war isn't working puts American security at risk	Russ Feingold	Milwaukee Journal Sentinel	October 28, 2006
The only solution left for Iraq: a five-way split	Gareth Stansfield	The Daily Telegraph	October 29, 2006
Partition Is Not the Solution . . .	Rend al-Rahim	The Washington Post	October 29, 2006
Partitioning Iraq	Juan Cole	Salon.com	October 30, 2006
Iraq's New Secret Police	Ralph Peters	New York Post	November 1, 2006
Last gasps in Iraq	Ralph Peters	USA Today	November 2, 2006
From Suez to Iraq: how to weaken the will of the West	Charles Moore	The Daily Telegraph	November 4, 2006
No Third Way in Iraq	Frederick W. Kagan	The Weekly Standard	November 4, 2006
Against Half-Measures	Rich Lowry	National Review	November 7, 2006
Support the troops: See the mission through	New Hampshire Union Leader editorial board	New Hampshire Union Leader	November 7, 2006
Tolerable or Awful: The Roads Left in Iraq	Thomas Friedman	The New York Times	November 8, 2006
Abandoning Iraq	David Warren	Ottawa Citizen	November 8, 2006
Many dead ends in Iraq	Max Boot	Los Angeles Times	November 8, 2006
Time to talk to the bad guys	Anatol Lieven	International Herald Tribune	November 9, 2006
America and Britain should quit Iraq as soon as possible	Norman Lamont	The Daily Telegraph	November 10, 2006
U.S. must prove it's a staying power	Mark Steyn	Chicago Sun-Times	November 12, 2006
Iraq: A Mess, But So What?	Adam Brodsky	New York Post	November 12, 2006
Bush must call for reinforcements in Iraq	Robert Kagan • William Kristol	Financial Times	November 12, 2006
Doubling Down in Iraq	William J. Stuntz	The Weekly Standard	November 13, 2006
Bush's Iraq Legacy	Robert Kagan • William Kristol	The Weekly Standard	November 13, 2006
Dems jump gun on Iraq	Michael Goodwin	New York Daily News	November 15, 2006
Arabian Nightmares	Ralph Peters	New York Post	November 15, 2006
The Fighting Over the Fighting	Victor Davis Hanson	National Review	November 17, 2006
Iraq	Mona Charen	National Review	November 17, 2006
Latest disastrous plan: More GIs to Iraq	Andrew Greeley	Chicago Sun-Times	November 17, 2006
Cut and Lose	New York Post editorial board	New York Post	November 19, 2006
Quitting a worthy fight would be a great mistake	Jules Crittenden	Boston Herald	November 19, 2006
Direction? Out	Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial board	Seattle Post-Intelligencer	November 19, 2006
To the Brink	Peter Beinart	The New Republic	November 20, 2006
Time for a Heavier Footprint	Frederick W. Kagan • William Kristol	The Weekly Standard	November 20, 2006
Next move in Iraq?	Wesley Clark	USA Today	November 21, 2006
The Only Real Option: Leave Iraq Now	Eugene Robinson	The Washington Post	November 21, 2006
War Has No 'Elegant Solutions'	Amir Taheri	New York Post	November 21, 2006
U.S. should lead Iraq summit	Los Angeles Times editorial board	Los Angeles Times	November 21, 2006
Making the last mistake in Iraq	Tony Blankley	The Washington Times	November 22, 2006
What kind of rogue-state dialogue?	The Washington Times editorial board	The Washington Times	November 22, 2006
Dealing From Weakness	New York Post editorial board	New York Post	November 22, 2006
Surrender as 'Realism'	Robert Kagan • William Kristol	The Weekly Standard	November 22, 2006
Talk to the enemy: U.S. should explore common interests with Syria, Iran	The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board	The Salt Lake Tribune	November 23, 2006

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