World-News

The New York Times reports that "allies of the White House are likely to point to the report as evidence of the dangers inherent in any rapid withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, and a Pentagon spokesman said today that the administration remained committed "to stay as long as it takes to get the Iraqi Army back on its feet.'"

https://www.alternet.org/audits/62113/


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq

https://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0910-05.htm

CODEPINK Brings The Public's Anti-War Message To General Petraeus
https://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0910-01.htm

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Petraeus’s closet

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

09/10/07

It is the discrepancy between General Petraeus’s performance as a general in Iraq (he had seen no combat before 2003) and his rapid elevation to overall US commander that has led his critics to portray him as a courtier-soldier whose victories are won in TV interviews or in Washington...

https://www.counterpunch.org/patrick09102007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CodePink
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/10/3736



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Carroll

Kim Sengupta reports for The Independent UK: "A city divided by high concrete walls, barbed wire and checkpoints; armoured columns moving through deserted evening streets lit by the glow of searchlights and emptied by official curfew and fear. This is Baghdad, seven months into the surge, and George Bush's last throw of the dice in Iraq."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091007F.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sengupta

Tom Engelhardt writes for TomDispatch.com: "Think of it this way: The most political general in recent memory has been asked to assess his own work (as has our ambassador in Iraq), and then present 'recommendations' to the White House in a 'report' that is actually being written in the White House. You couldn't call it a political version of 'the honor system'; but perhaps the dishonor system would do."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091007D.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

by Joshua Holland and Raed Jarrar, AlterNet

Shockingly, the United States, Iran and al Qaeda have the same goals in Iraq.
https://ga3.org/ct/N120pgF1mzK-/

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It's the Oil

Jim Holt, writing in the London Review of Books, says: "Iraq is 'unwinnable', a 'quagmire', a 'fiasco': so goes the received opinion. But there is good reason to think that, from the Bush-Cheney perspective, it is none of these things. Indeed, the US may be 'stuck' precisely where Bush et al want it to be, which is why there is no 'exit strategy.'"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101207H.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=quagmire
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Holland
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Raed+Jarrar

by Chris Weigant, The Huffington Post

Why are Democrats seemingly admitting defeat in Iraq before the argument has even begun?

https://ga3.org/ct/Nd20pgF1mzKJ/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi

Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up
https://ga3.org/ct/Md20pgF1mzKH/

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General Petraeus cooking the books for the White House?
https://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html


Informant: John Johnson



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Scher

Toronto Sun
by Eric Margolis

09/09/07

We all know what ‘deja vu’ is. But I recently read of a condition psychiatrists call ‘jamais vu.’ That’s where one sees something very familiar, but cannot identify it. Both the White House and U.S. military seemed gripped by jamais vu. Many of the same mistakes made in the Vietnam War are being repeated in Iraq and Afghanistan, but neither the White House, Pentagon, nor U.S. field commanders seem to recognize or understand them...

https://tinyurl.com/2dhsc6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Margolis