U.S. Falters In Bid to Boost Iraqi Business
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More than a year after the Pentagon launched an ambitious effort to reopen Iraqi factories and persuade U.S. firms to purchase their goods, defense officials acknowledge that the initiative has largely failed because American retailers have shown little interest in buying products made in Iraq.
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The ongoing war in Iraq seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this yearâs Super Bowl commercials.
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Unable to deliver on its lofty goal  of bringing democracy to Iraq through the Jan. 30 elections,  the Bush administration is pressing a damage-control campaign  to lower expectations for the vote.
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Failure by the United States to stop postwar violence in Iraq has crippled efforts to rebuild an essential part of the Iraqi economy -- agriculture, according to U.S. government officials.
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Despite optimism on the U.S. campaign trail, the choices in Baghdad are looking grim
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The US administration seeks to refocus its spending in Iraq on better security and other short-term needs.
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The Iraqi government has made mixed progress in meeting political and security goals, a U.S. official said on Thursday, citing a report that may add to rising calls for a change of course in the unpopular war.
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Sniping is proving a less successful method in counterinsurgency in Iraq than had been hoped.
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Oil exports from Iraq have been cut in half by a series of well-orchestrated attacks, officials said Thursday, but the news failed to have any immediate impact on oil prices.
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U.S. forces have achieved generally encouraging, though "uneven," results in an offensive aimed at shoring up security in Iraq, but Iraqi leaders have failed to make satisfactory progress on the political reconciliation the military effort was designed to facilitate, the top U.S. military command...
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A Government Accountability Office report has found that  Iraq had spent much less of its reconstruction budget than what had previously been announced.
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The U.S. occupation authority in Iraq was unable to keep track of nearly &#36;9 billion it transferred to government ministries, which lacked financial controls, security, communications and adequate staff, an inspector general has found.
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Despite stepped-up training, the readiness of the Iraqi military to operate independently of U.S. forces has decreased since President Bush's new strategy was launched in January, according to the White House progress report released yesterday.
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The odds of success in Iraq are less than even &#151; maybe as slight as one in four &#151; but the United States should continue to play a fighting role although a diminished one, for at least two or three years, a prominent analyst says in a new book.
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Analysis: Bush's visits to Colombia and Guatemala hold lessons for his faltering attempt to stabilize Iraq.
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The US intervention in Iraq was hampered early on by a lack of adequate forces and efforts to contain looting after the ouster of Saddam Hussein, according to the former US administrator in Iraq.
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Iraq&#39;s stagnant economy and lack of employment opportunities are feeding instability in the violence-torn country, hindering prospects for prosperity, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Monday.