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https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/13-9



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https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/07-8



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Scott Ritter

Finding the remains of Navy Lt. Cmdr. Scott Speicher in Iraq provides long overdue closure for his family and comrades, but it also exposes the tireless exploitation of Speicher's disappearance in 1991 by Sen. Pat Roberts, a staunch Republican from Kansas, who used it to demonize the regime of Saddam Hussein and to justify the case for the invasion of Iraq.

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Iraqis speak of random killings committed by Blackwater

Guards employed by Blackwater, the US security company, shot Iraqis and killed victims in allegedly unprovoked and random attacks, it was claimed yesterday.

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6742135.ece


From Information Clearing House



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The American Conservative
by Jeff Huber

08/06/09

U.S. Army Col. Timothy R. Reese says it’s time for the U.S. to ‘declare victory’ in Iraq and ‘go home.’ It was time to declare victory and go home in January 2007, when the Bush administration decided to ignore the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group and charged off on its cockamamie ’surge’ strategy. The original stated objective of the surge was political reconciliation in Iraq. By September 2007, when it was clear that the political objective was not in sight, Gen. David Petraeus pulled a bait-and-switch and announced that the military objectives of the surge were being met. Petraeus hagiographer Thomas E. Ricks slipped Freudian in February 2009 when he confessed that Petraeus’s goal was never to end the Iraq conflict but to trick Congress and the American public into extending it indefinitely by achieving short-term results though bribing Iraq’s militias...

https://www.amconmag.com/blog/perpetual/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Having to peddle "government lies" about the safety of soldiers in Iraq led to a Ministry of Defence press officer suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, an employment tribunal will hear.

https://snipurl.com/oskuf


From Information Clearing House



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Video With Introduction By Layla Anwar

I invite you to watch closely this short documentary. Watch it closely with attention and listen to what is, and most importantly to what is not said.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23197.htm



Layla Anwar: Democracy - What Democracy ?

Frankly anyone who believes that -- the about to take place elections is an exercise in Democracy, is a bloody lunatic.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24905.htm



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By Iftekhar A. Khan

Many who thought Obama would change US policies in Iraq and Afghanistan have been disappointed. Obama and Brown don't formulate policies; reps of powerful interest groups do.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23188.htm



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Chelsea J. Carter The Associated Press: "The war in Iraq was truly an American-only effort Saturday after Britain and Australia, the last of its international partners, pulled out."

https://www.truthout.org/080209C?n



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chelsea+J.+Carter

Liz Sly, The Los Angeles Times: "You wake up in the morning to find your nostrils clogged. Houses and trees have vanished beneath a choking brown smog. A hot wind blasts fine particles through doors and windows, coating everything in sight and imparting an eerie orange glow. Dust storms are a routine experience in Iraq, but lately they've become a whole lot more common."

https://www.truthout.org/073009E?n



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Col. Timothy R. Reese

The general lack of progress in essential services and good governance is now so broad that it ought to be clear that we no longer are moving the Iraqis "forward." Below is an outline of the information on which I base this assessment.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23163.htm