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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and a senior US commander said yesterday that they favor a protracted US troop presence in Iraq along the lines of the military stabilization force in South Korea. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nevada) responded by accusing Bush of "equating US troop involvement in the endless Iraqi civil war to the post-Korean War security model, telling Americans that he may keep our troops mired in Iraq for as long as half a century."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060107A.shtml

Common Dreams
by Kathy Kelly

05/31/07

Earlier this week, the American Friends Service Committee asked me to speak about finding hope in hard times as part of an interfaith service to conclude their ‘Eyes Wide Open’ display in Chicago’s Grant Park. The display arranged 3,438 soldiers’ boots to commemorate U.S. military people killed in Iraq, along with life sized pictures of Iraqi civilians and a collection of numerous civilian shoes to remember hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have been killed in Iraq since 2003. I asked the audience to join me in recalling experiences I had while imprisoned at the Pekin Federal prison for ‘crossing the line’ at Fort Benning, Georgia...

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/31/1565/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Kelly

https://www.traveling-soldier.org/9.06.words.php


From Information Clearing House

Adeela Harith, a 39-year-old widow and mother of three, says she misses the days when her husband was daily bringing them food and when they used to sleep in a safe house in comfort. As a recently-widowed displaced person, she has no support and is now collecting left-overs from rubbish bins to feed her children.

https://snipurl.com/1mwat


From Information Clearing House

Call your Congressperson at 202.224.3121 about the war budget vote
https://tinyurl.com/yohcmm



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

https://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2007/05/29/a-soldier-in-iraq-asks-in-despair-why-are-we-here/


Informant: Corey

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6706481.stm


Informant: Corey



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

Justifying the War
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007U.shtml



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

Through four elections, Debbie Thompson has supported Representative Mark Steven Kirk, a Republican and staunch backer of the Bush administration's policies in Iraq. "My patience for this war, it's run out," said Ms. Thompson. "I think this is the most expensive, stupidest thing ever done. My frustration has reached a level that is so unsettling, something has to be done."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007S.shtml



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

We read in the Boston Globe how John Kerry, preparing to campaign to be commander in chief, voted in 2002 for the Iraq war after his political consultants informed the would-be leader of the free world that he would not be "politically viable" unless he voted yes.

https://snipurl.com/1mr6u


From Information Clearing House