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Richard Rawles works as a technical writer in the computer-security industry. Formerly a researcher at UC-Berkeley's Institute of International Studies and an editor at SRI International, he has written articles and edited texts on politics, culture, environment, science and technology. A draft resister during the Vietnam War, he now writes the blog Countersigns, which covers issues of war and peace. He also writes the occasional verse and is a student (figuratively speaking) of William Blake.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 8, 2007 Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq
January 16 will mark the sixteenth anniversary of the U.S. war on Iraq, This week, President Bush will pre-empt the occasion by announcing a new strategy for winning this war. The plan is all part of the Bush administration's effort to "redeploy" American combat forces to the peripheries and allow Iraq's Shiite-controlled security forces to "purge" Baghdad of its suspected Sunni insurgents.