Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. 09/05 to 01/14/07

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

ALL YOU NEGATIVE NELLIES NEED TO HEED THESE WORDS. IF YOU WONT LISTEN TO ME AT LEAST LISTEN TO THIS MAN!

also, fyi, I didnt invent the dates, I passed on information to you all. I wont be doing that if you insist on throwing it up in MY face each time like it was MY date. the dinar is REVALUING RIGHT NOW. that means the date was back in november so shut up.

Calm down, Shotty. These people are just curious if you've had anymore confirmation from your Quad sources. I myself have had Triangular confirmations that the IQD WILL INDEED re-val tonight once again!!!

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Wednesday said the enemy in Iraq is "far from being defeated," but he vowed not to be rushed into adjusting his strategy and gave little indication that he intends to veer sharply from the direction his war policies have taken.

"We're not going to give up. The stakes are too high and the consequences too grave," Bush said after meeting at the Pentagon with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Rumsfeld's designated successor, Robert Gates.

There are competing schools of thought inside the military and the administration on whether a short-term increase in U.S. troop strength in Iraq — possibly in the range of 20,000 — would be enough to quell the sectarian warfare in Baghdad.

After a third straight day of soliciting war advice from top military and diplomatic officials, Bush gave no clue as to whether he will include that in his forthcoming plan. Some generals believe it would be too little, too late, in a war that already has claimed more than 2,900 U.S. lives.

Bush said he was considering a wide range of options he has heard during a week of consultations, while rejecting ideas "that would lead to defeat." He said the rejected ideas included "leaving before the job is done, ideas such as not helping this (Iraqi) government" to function and gain Iraqis' confidence.

"But one thing people have got to understand is we'll be headed toward achieving our objectives," he said. "And I repeat: If we lose our nerve, if we're not steadfast in our determination to help the Iraqi government succeed, we will be handing Iraq over to an enemy that would do us harm."

Bush's very public effort to recalibrate the war effort comes with growing public pressure generated by the November elections that put Democrats in control of Congress and led to Rumsfeld's ouster.

The president said he would present soon a "new way forward" in Iraq, while continuing to support the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose ability to forge a viable governing coalition is questioned privately by some administration officials. He cited "horrific" violence in Iraq carried out by a ruthless enemy bent on toppling "this young democracy."

None of his comments sounded like a prelude to withdrawing substantial number of U.S. troops over the coming year, as was recommended by the Iraqi Study Group, a bipartisan commission that studied war options since March.

A number of administration officials have suggested privately that while Bush has considered the possibility of a short-term troop increase, there is no consensus from the military on the wisdom of surging a large number of additional troops. In fact there is little sign that senior military leaders have shifted from their view that adding troops would undercut the incentive for Iraqis to take more responsibility for their own security.

Just last month, the top U.S. commander for U.S. forces in the Middle East, Gen. John Abizaid, told Congress that while a troop increase of 20,000 could have a short-term positive effect, it could not be sustained because the Army and the Marine Corps simply are stretched too thin to maintain a bigger force there.

A parallel possibility under discussion is increasing the number of U.S. troops who are placed inside Iraqi army and police units as advisers, providing a kind of on-the-job training that the senior military spokesman in Baghdad, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, told reporters Wednesday is already paying notable dividends.

The military also has pressed the case that any adjustments in troop levels would be fruitless without accompanying improvements on the political and economic fronts, to reconcile the rival sectarian factions and to put young people to work.

Internally, the Army has been trying to determine how many additional troops could be deployed in Iraq at one time and for how long. So far, according to Army officials familiar with the deliberations, the consensus is that only 10,000 to 15,000 troops — or up to five brigades — could be added temporarily to the force.

Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, is arguing that if the U.S. is going to maintain the current troop levels on the warfront, either the size of the active-duty Army must be increased or the Army must be given greater access to National Guard and Reserve soldiers, two defense officials said Wednesday.

Bush has met in recent days with Iraq's Sunni vice president, Tariq al-Hashemi, and with the leader of the largest Shiite bloc in Iraq's parliament, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim. Those discussions across Iraq's ethnic and religious lines come as major partners in the country's governing coalition are in behind-the-scenes talks to form a new parliamentary bloc and to sideline the supporters of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Al-Sadr is a vehement opponent of the U.S. military presence and the main patron of al-Maliki. There is discontent in Iraq and within the Bush administration over al-Maliki's failure to rein in Shiite militias and quell raging violence.

Bush met for about 90 minutes inside the Joint Chiefs' eavesdrop-proof chamber, known as "the Tank." Speaking to reporters afterward he declined to reveal what advice he had received, but he stressed that he wanted U.S. troops to know that while the war strategy is being reviewed, there is no intent to retreat.

"Our troops deserve the solid commitment of the commander in chief and our political leaders and the American people," Bush said. "You have my unshakable commitment in this important fight to help secure the peace for the long term."

The White House had initially suggested that Bush would deliver his speech on a new Iraq strategy before Christmas, but he has decided to delay it until early next year.

"I really do want the new secretary of defense to have time to get to know people and hear people and be a part of this deliberation," Bush said. Gates, a former CIA director, will be sworn in on Monday.

Barry McCaffrey, who was one of three retired Army generals who met with Bush at the White House on Monday, said in a telephone interview that while he does not know how Bush will alter his military strategy, he worries that the president may opt to send tens of thousands more troops to reinforce Baghdad.

"All of us told the president, 'Your Army is in disastrous shape, its equipment is broken, it's not prepared to fight another enemy," McCaffrey said. He recommends providing vastly more armored vehicles, helicopters and other equipment to the Iraqi army, while maintaining U.S. troops strength for the time being.

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Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor, Anne Gearan and Anne Plummer Flaherty contributed to this report.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

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Originally Posted by willie 2

Let's see, is there just one little thing that the enemy can get and use from this information? This military sure has changed since I was in. Oh well, this is my last post and I'll make sure as to not let the door hit me on the way out. Good luck to all. That's 50 words plus Neno, I counted them for ya.

I seriously hope you just meant your last post of the Night. I know that I am very tired of ready and going thru all these off-topis post Tonight. Please dont anyone get the New rule wrong. It says Off Topic & less than 50 words. What this means is to the ones reading this Post Now. Is if it is Not realeted to the Dinars/Iraq it will be moved. Post for this Thread Need a rise in Standard. I said 50 words. That is to make you think of what you are posting. Hey If it is 25 words and releated and have meaning, so be it. I read nearly all post in this Thread. It is very easy to see what is Crazy or Off-Topic. Good Night Willie2.

Sorry if already posted...

By Arshad Mohammed and Susan Cornwell
Wed Dec 13, 6:12 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite a tepid embrace from the White House, the Iraq Study Group's recommendations will help shape President George W. Bush's new policy if only because of their popular support, analysts said on Wednesday.

While saying he will take the report "very seriously," Bush has all but rejected its appeal to engage Iran and Syria directly over Iraq and has been cool to the idea of withdrawing many U.S. troops from combat by early 2008 if possible.

Bush has not ruled out the group's proposal to organize a regional support group for Iraq but he has made clear he will not be bound by the 10-member panel's recommendations and has commissioned his own internal review of U.S. Iraq policy.

Analysts said the White House was, understandably, trying to put some distance between itself and the panel led by Republican former Secretary of State James Baker and Democrat former Rep. Lee Hamilton to preserve Bush's options.

But they said the report's resonance with the public -- which ended Republican control of both houses of Congress last month largely because of dissatisfaction with the Iraq war -- made it impossible for the Republican president to ignore.

A Washington Post ABC News poll released on Tuesday showed that 79 percent of Americans supported its recommendation of changing the primary mission of U.S. forces to supporting and training the Iraqi army from directly fighting insurgents.

The poll, which was conducted December 7-11 among a national sample of 1,005 adults, found 69 percent backed withdrawing almost all U.S. combat forces by early 2008 and 57 percent favored direct U.S. talks with Iran about Iraq.

"The president clearly doesn't want to look like he is a prisoner of any particular group," said James Dobbins, director of the Rand Corporation's international security and defense policy center. "He is trying to give himself some room so that when he finally comes to conclusions it won't look like he is being dictated to by his father's secretary of state."

"GOING TO BE SOME CHANGES"

Dobbins, noting the U.S. government typically denies it will change policy up to the moment it shifts course, said he did not take too seriously the Bush administration's resistance to some of the panel's idea.

"There are clearly going to be some changes, elements of this (report) are likely to be embraced. To the extent they are not embraced they are going to be under continued pressure to embrace them because the vast bulk of the American people have come to the conclusion that the recommendations of this report are the way their government ought to be going."

Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, also rejected suggestions the report has been "orphaned" in Washington.

"It seems to me the orphan has become the baseline for all future discussion on Iraq," Alternman said. "The politics have shifted such that the president can't ignore ... public opinion."

The political pressure on Bush to change course in Iraq and, eventually, to find a way out for the roughly 134,000 U.S. troops there was demonstrated in the November 7 election that gave control of Congress to Democrats.

Key lawmakers welcomed the report as being similar to a Democratic-sponsored Senate resolution to move toward a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and liked the fact that it put pressure on Bush to change course.

But Democratic praise was short of overwhelming, and some Democratic aides acknowledged that there were members of the party who wished the report had gone even further.

Among other things, some Democrats are pushing for a harder timeline on when to remove U.S. forces.

"Most of us realize the war has been a disaster, and the question now is not so much will we leave, but how and when do we leave," Sen. Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), a Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters.

Asked about the report's failure to set a deadline, he said: "I don't think that is realistic. I think events have so overtaken us, it is so obvious in a civil war, I think that there will be a timetable."

December 2006 13, 2006
Raising the dinar to reduce prices in market
Raising the dinar to reduce prices in market

The Globe

Increasing the value of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar may hurt imports but it will help domestic trade.

The news about the appreciating value of the dinar against the dollar has hit the market in Suleimaniya hard. Many will lose their jobs. People believe that neither the government nor the Central Bank can carry out such a critical decision.
Despite the fact that no official spokesperson from the Central Bank has ever issued such a firm decision decreasing the dollar value to 1250 ID from its previous value of 1450 ID has created an unnatural shake in the local markets.
Professor Dr. Narmeen Marouf, an economist, tells the Kurdish Globe that this move from the Central Bank aimed at solving the inflation crated due to the high value of the dollar. "If the value of the dinar goes up, the price of goods will decline sharply; they have been paid off in dollars and are sold in dinars," she says, adding that the Central Bank has also tried before to reduce prices and balance off the supply and demand in the local markets. "As the value of the dinar increases, consumers and the local merchants are the first to benefit."
At the moment, Iraq is not exporting any goods other than oil. Almost all goods in Iraqi markets are imports; hence the inflation, particularly when the value of the dinar declines for having no support, although it is quite possible for a decision as such to be made in order to reduce domestic issues. The decision will have two beneficiary forces - it will help Iraq vie for foreign markets and reduce prices in local ones.

"Since rumours started that the dinar was going to increase in value, many have faced sever financial damages," Kamaran Ali, of Money Mart, says. However, he does not believe in such a decision. "Increasing the value of the dinar" he says, "will not benefit anyone."

After 2003, the Iraqi Central Bank decided to peg the value of the dinar. Primarily, a dollar was equal to 1,450 ID, until the value of the dinar was reduced and a dollar became 1,470 ID, then 1,500, at which the price the value of the dinar seemed to stay still.

Mr. Ali Abdullah of the Bank of Harem (The Regional Bank) says that attempts to raise the value of the dinar are not something new, but many preparations have been made in order for the plan to go ahead. He says that the decision was made to overcome the economic crises in Iraq.

"To increase the value of the dinar, the government has to increase exports and produce more goods," Mr. Abdullah believes.
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Announcements :Department of Labor and Social Security / Legal Affairs Section / real estate

Based on the Law of the sale and rental of state funds "No. 32" in 1986 to declare the rate of Labor and Social Security to conduct a public tender for the rental property (No. 66 / 1 Alsenk) building tables located in the Khalani square in the light table below filer for one year at eleven

On the morning of Sunday, 2006 / 12 / 24 in the auctions located in the building of Labor and Social Security in Palestine Street Academy of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

For those who rent access to paid first Mstassehabin important legal insurance of "25%" of the estimated annual rent allowance instrument is certified to the Department of Labor and Social Security, are not allowed to enter the auction hall only to bidders who paid the real legal insurance with the ration card and identity card housing and civil status.

And abide by the auction of the anchor instead of paying rent deal during a "15" fifteen days from the date of an outright assignment and bear the declaration and pay other expenses.

Sami Ibrahim Ali
Director-General

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Less than 25 percent back Bush's Iraq strategy: poll - Yahoo! News
Less than 25 pct back Bush's Iraq strategy: poll 37 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than one in four Americans approves of
President George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq war,
according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday that mirrored other recent surveys.

The poll found only 23 percent backed Bush's Iraq strategy, an 11-point drop
since the previous NBC/Journal poll in late October and Bush's lowest mark on the question in this survey, NBC reported.

Nearly seven in 10 respondents said they felt less confident the war would
come to a successful conclusion, NBC said. Fifty-three percent said the United States did not have an obligation to killed or
wounded American soldiers to remain in Iraq.

Bush's overall job approval rating was at 34 percent, the lowest level for the
president in this poll, NBC said.
Bush is considering options for changing course in Iraq after the bipartisan
Iraq Study Group offered dozens of recommendations last week.

Vowing he would not be rushed into a decision,
Bush has put off until next month announcing any change in Iraq policy.

The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found only 21
percent of Americans wanted Bush to set the policy, while 59 percent
wanted the incoming Democratic-led Congress to do so.

(Moto comment: Since when do POLLS Dictate our Government?)

Democrats recaptured control of Congress in
the November midterm elections from Bush's Republicans largely on voter
frustration over the situation in Iraq.

A Washington Post/ABC News poll released on Tuesday showed
seven in 10 disapproved of Bush's handling of Iraq and 61 percent said the
war was not worth fighting.

In a USA Today/Gallup survey, more than half the respondents, or
55 percent, said they wanted most U.S. troops withdrawn from Iraq within a
year.
Bush has rejected setting a timetable for removing U.S. troops from Iraq.


The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of 1,006 adults was
conducted from Friday to Monday and had a margin of error of 3.1
percentage points.

WARNING: Before you proceed; motomachi needs to set a perspective here,
what does a "POLL" have to do with IQD/Iraqi Dinar?
Four Iraqi Perspective Points:
Point #1- This poll was bias as NOONE from the Rol-Club was called!
Point #2- All "POLL" s are not just BIAS but sort of set the "Majorities" guidance!
Point #3- The Kurdistan's Kurds (Iraqi) were not "POLL"-ed!
Point #4- Always listen carefully and understand the Pollster!

Okay, now for our POLL:

If you do not want a REVALUATION (RV) hit the thanks button! A "THANKS" on this post shows you are
not interested in an RV and you want things to go as the pollsters! (Are you listening?)
Sounds negative: (It might, but this is what we are faced with here in the USA!)
It is not negative but just a means to reflect if you are reading and hearing
what is actually being said, as those that vote in a POLL, sometimes do not
clearly understand what is being asked of them!

WE NEED AN RV

RV @ .90-.94 EURO

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Economic : Trustees of the Stock Exchange Iraqi President : The time has come for the implementation of the Law on Investment economic report Baghdad-Haider spring student Tabatabai chief Stock Exchange that the Iraqi security situation more work Mayaaik Stock Exchange, as well as the investor who faces considerable challenges resulting from this security deterioration, ... However, he pointed out that the current situation is temporary and exceptional basis and therefore must be maintained consistently on the bourse performance, as illustrated by general indicators, which confirms that the development in performance continues to be a salient feature in the march of the market. He added Tabatabai in a press statement : that the lack of real investment and the appointment of its members and direct the work of a great disappointment among investors in the Stock Exchange of Iraq, particularly the efforts made by workers in the bourse, specifically with regard to updating the performance, since being installed equipment and supplies electronic trading in terms of organizing rooms Stock Exchange for this purpose, he said, adding that such electronic paintings used for the first time in Iraq ... Tabatabai and expressed the hope that help many factors, the investments by shareholders better than it is now in the forefront of these factors the security situation. Tabatabai pointed out that the number of shares that have been circulated in the month of September amounted to 4,212 billion shares, an average of 527 million shares of one process, registering an increase of 54,9% on last August. And the volume of transactions in the month of September Tabatabai said that the amount of 8,422 billion dinars, or the rate of 1,052 billion dinars for one meeting. And the number of contracts executed in the same month, it increased to reach a contract in 2928 for the month of August. Tabatabai also stated that the banking sector is the main engine of the market, as this sector has achieved greater relative importance.