World-News

Air Force and Navy aircraft dropped five times as many bombs in Iraq during the first six months of this year as over the first half of 2006, according to official information.

https://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38726


From Information Clearing House

Housekeeper and mother of three Anisah Kaseb, 58, says the relentless violence in Iraq has damaged her family psychologically: Her younger son committed suicide and her daughter now requires psychological help.

https://tinyurl.com/2d7ehh


From Information Clearing House

Gordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he would not delay their exit in order to show unity with the United States.

https://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2819582.ece


From Information Clearing House



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

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2890/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lieberman

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

07/30/07

What is the most vivid and compelling evidence of how broken our political system is? It is that the exact same people who urged us into the war in Iraq, were wrong in everything they said, and issued one false assurance after the next as the war failed, continue to be the same people held up as our Serious Iraq Experts. The exact ‘experts’ to whom we listened in 2002 and 2003 are the same exact establishment ‘experts’ now. Hence, today we have yet another Op-Ed declaring that We Really Are Winning in Iraq This Time — this one in the NYT from ‘liberal’ Brookings Institution ’scholars’ Ken Pollack and Mike O’Hanlon...

https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/07/30/brookings/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brookings+Institution
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

The US agency overseeing reconstruction in Iraq has told the BBC that economic mismanagement and corruption there is equivalent to "a second insurgency".

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6922347.stm


From Information Clearing House

The recess leaves Bush with little to show Americans after sending nearly 30,000 more troops to Iraq to give Iraqi leaders breathing space to reach a political accommodation.

https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30808071.htm


From Information Clearing House

In the absence of anything remotely resembling victory in Iraq, Bush and Cheney play the blame game -- including in a new, authorized biography of the vice president.

https://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/26/cheney/


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal