Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Retired Marine and Blue Star Mother -- It's Past Time to Leave Iraq (ContributorNetwork)
• Hundreds rally in support of Iranian opposition (AP)
• What Have You Done for Me Lately? Obama's Domestic Headache (ContributorNetwork)
• Conflicted Iraqis face future without US troops (AP)
• Iraq still seeking U.S. trainers: PM Maliki (Reuters)
• Obama touts foreign policy successes in Iraq, Libya (Reuters)
• Obama: Gadhafi, Iraq show renewed US leadership (AP)
• Turkey: 49 Kurdish rebels killed in fighting (AP)
• Clinton says US will still stand by Iraq (AP)
• Turkey Sends Troops to Iraq to Fight PKK Kurdish Separatists (Time.com)
• Iraq's Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence (Time.com)

Retired Marine and Blue Star Mother -- It's Past Time to Leave Iraq (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 03:40 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - FIRST PERSON | After years of uniformed presence and more than 4,400 American military lives lost, it was announced on Friday that U.S. troops would be removed from Iraq by the end of the year.

Hundreds rally in support of Iranian opposition (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 03:01 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of people rallied outside the White House on Saturday, calling on President Barack Obama to remove an Iranian opposition group once allied with Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.

What Have You Done for Me Lately? Obama's Domestic Headache (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 02:58 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | He took out Osama bin Laden, and Anwar al-Awlaki. He led from behind to the successful demise of Moammar Gadhafi and is ending the war in Iraq, but like George H.W. Bush in 1991, President Barack Obama's successes abroad don't mean much among an increasingly xenophobic and self-indulgent electorate clamoring for an upswing in the economy. "What have you done for me lately?" ask the people who want to party like it's 1999.

Conflicted Iraqis face future without US troops (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 12:09 PM PDT AP - For the first time in decades, Iraqis face a future on their own, with neither Saddam Hussein's iron fist nor the United States' military might to hold them together. This has been both their dream and nightmare: They wanted American troops (the occupiers) to go, but they wanted American troops (the protectors) to stay.

Iraq still seeking U.S. trainers: PM Maliki (Reuters) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 11:38 AM PDT Reuters - Iraq will continue talks with Washington on how U.S. trainers can work with Iraqi forces after a complete withdrawal of American troops at the end of the year, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday.

Obama touts foreign policy successes in Iraq, Libya (Reuters) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:24 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama sought on Saturday to cast himself as a strong leader on foreign policy, highlighting a U.S. pullout from Iraq and the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as success stories.

Obama: Gadhafi, Iraq show renewed US leadership (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 08:11 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says the death of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and the end of the Iraq war are powerful reminders of America's renewed leadership in the world.

Turkey: 49 Kurdish rebels killed in fighting (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 07:55 AM PDT AP - Turkish troops have killed at least 49 Kurdish rebels in a valley near the Iraqi border, the military said Saturday, as hundreds of troops also pursued Kurdish fighters within northern Iraq.

Clinton says US will still stand by Iraq (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2011 03:53 AM PDT AP - The United States will continue to support Iraq as it moves toward democracy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday as she wrapped up a weeklong overseas trip.

Turkey Sends Troops to Iraq to Fight PKK Kurdish Separatists (Time.com) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:45 PM PDT Time.com - Regional dynamics, from Turkey's deteriorating ties with Iran and Syria to the plans for the pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq, have combined to fuel a new round of clashes

Iraq's Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence (Time.com) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:45 PM PDT Time.com - President Barack Obama's announcement on Friday that all 40,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq will leave the country by New Year's Eve will, inevitably, draw howls of derision from GOP presidential hopefuls

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