Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Bachmann on Iraq -- U.S. Troops 'Kicked Out' by Liberated Ingrates (ContributorNetwork)
• Suspect in shooting of Ga. deputy served in Iraq (AP)
• Sheriff: Ga. deputy's killer had drinking problem (AP)
• Turkish tanks move on N.Iraq, near PKK camp -sources (Reuters)
• Military Drawdown in Iraq May Complicate Tribal Outreach and Humanitarian Engagement (ContributorNetwork)
• Iraqi speaker warns of meddling after US pullout (AP)
• Costly Iraq war may mark shift in US approach (AP)
• Turkey Sends Troops to Iraq to Fight PKK Kurdish Separatists (Time.com)
• Clinton to Iran: Don't misread departure from Iraq (AP)

Bachmann on Iraq -- U.S. Troops 'Kicked Out' by Liberated Ingrates (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:36 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Political spin is a creature of perspective. Depending upon one's views, spin can read as reasonable and thought-provoking or misleading and disingenuous. Although Rep. Michele Bachmann, a 2012 Republican presidential hopeful, uses spin often, she is not particularly adept at it and her recent appearance on CBS' "Face The Nation" proved a case in point when she attempted to characterize President Barack Obama's announcement that American troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by year's end -- effectively ending major U. S. military involvement in Iraq -- as a failure of his foreign policy and describing the withdrawal as the U. S. being "kicked out" by liberated Iraqi ingrates.

Suspect in shooting of Ga. deputy served in Iraq (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 02:39 PM PDT AP - Military officials said a Tennessee Army National Guard soldier accused of killing a sheriff's deputy, then committing suicide, had previously served in Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division.

Sheriff: Ga. deputy's killer had drinking problem (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:13 PM PDT AP - The girlfriend of an Army National Guard soldier who fatally shot a sheriff's deputy and himself told investigators the gunman "definitely had a drinking problem" and grabbed an assault rifle from his trunk after she made him pull over while he was driving drunk, a Georgia sheriff said Monday.

Turkish tanks move on N.Iraq, near PKK camp -sources (Reuters) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 10:21 AM PDT Reuters - Turkish tanks and armored vehicles crossed into northern Iraq headed in the direction of a Kurdish militant camp, Turkish security sources said Monday.

Military Drawdown in Iraq May Complicate Tribal Outreach and Humanitarian Engagement (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 08:26 AM PDT ContributorNetwork - Yahoo! News asked service members and their families for their perspective on Obama's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. Below is a story from a reader.

Iraqi speaker warns of meddling after US pullout (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 07:03 AM PDT AP - The speaker of Iraq's parliament on Monday accused neighboring nations of meddling in Iraqi affairs and signaled it will only get worse if the country is seen as vulnerable after U.S. troops leave at the end of the year.

Costly Iraq war may mark shift in US approach (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2011 12:50 AM PDT AP - In the final days of the U.S. war in Iraq, the outlook for America's military entanglements is markedly different from the confusing, convulsive first days.

Turkey Sends Troops to Iraq to Fight PKK Kurdish Separatists (Time.com) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 08:35 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

Clinton to Iran: Don't misread departure from Iraq (AP) Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT AP - Iran should not misread the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq as affecting the U.S. commitment to the fledgling democracy, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.

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