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https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1440/

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Democratic Spin Won't End the War in Iraq

By John Stauber

It is vitally important, however, that a genuinely independent anti-war movement organize itself with the ability to speak on its own behalf.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17798.htm



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Mental health specialists say there has been an increase in domestic violence against children - largely a result of the violence that has gripped Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003. They say the violence has affected people's behavior. Before the invasion, there were about 90 psychiatrists in Iraq and some 45 psychologists but today there are fewer than 40 total.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3090.shtml

Brownsville Herald

05/24/07

The system for delivering badly needed gear to Marines in Iraq has failed to meet many urgent requests for equipment from troops in the field, according to an internal document obtained by The Associated Press. Of more than 100 requests from deployed Marine units between February 2006 and February 2007, less than 10 percent have been fulfilled, the document says. It blamed the bureaucracy and a ‘risk-averse’ approach by acquisition officials...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Raleigh News & Observer

05/24/07

A judge on Thursday upheld an indictment against three U.S. soldiers in the death of a Spanish journalist in Iraq, rejecting an appeal filed by national prosecutors. Spain’s National Court charged the three American soldiers in April with homicide and a crime against the international community for firing a tank shell at Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel and killing TV cameraman Jose Couso...

https://tinyurl.com/2wrb8z


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The mortality rate among Iraqi children younger than 5 rose 150 percent between 1990 and 2005, according to a report released this month by the US humanitarian aid group Save the Children. In its most startling terms, the group estimates that 1 in 8 never makes it to his or her fifth birthday.

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052407HB.shtml

`I cannot participate in a judicial process where the prospects of a fair trial are negligible, and more crucially, where the death penalty is a possibility,' writes James Loney who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2005.

https://www.thestar.com/article/216533


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This Shameful, Bi-partisan Betrayal

Keith Olbermann - Special Comment

A Special Comment about the Democrats' deal with President Bush to continue financing this unspeakable war in Iraq-and to do so on his terms: Video and transcript.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17762.htm



Bush demands real progress from Iraq, warns Iran

President George W. Bush warned Thursday that Iraq must repay the sacrifice of US soldiers with real progress, as Congress got set to pass a new war budget stripped of Democratic withdrawal timetables.

https://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/070524154916.8f5kn2p8.html



Pentagon Studies Long-Term Commitment in Iraq

The Pentagon is considering maintaining a core group of forces in Iraq, possibly for decades.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10292643



Deadly Illusions, Rest in Peace

This week's cave-in on Capitol Hill - supplying a huge new jolt of funds for the horrific war effort in Iraq - is surprising only to those who haven't grasped our current circumstances.

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/24/1421/


From Information Clearing House

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What the Democratic Blank Check on Iraq Means

David Sirota

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
https://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/05/what_the_democratic_blank_chec.html


Informant: Corey

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Iraq funding: Congress bends public over, Bush thrusts

Morris County Daily Record

05/24/07

Bowing to President Bush, the Democratic-controlled Congress grudgingly approved fresh billions for the Iraq war Thursday night, minus the troop withdrawal timeline that drew his earlier veto. ‘The Iraqi government needs to show real progress in return for America’s continued support and sacrifice,’ said the commander in chief, and he warned that August could prove to be a bloody month for U.S. troops in Baghdad’s murderous neighborhoods...

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The sacrifice the troops bill

The Nation
by Laura Flanders

05/24/07

I spent some of Wednesday with a worried mom from Idaho Falls, Idaho, whose only son is in the National Guard. Once a month he drives 200 miles to train, then he drives 200 miles back home again. (All for $200 most of which is spent on gas.) He served in Bosnia. Will he be deployed to Iraq? ‘I was counting on the Democrats to stop this war,’ said Marianne, blue eyes blazing. So were thousands of other mothers. It’s time to turn this story around. Rove’s wrong. This so-called ’supplemental’ isn’t about supporting troops; this blank-check bill is about sacrificing them...

https://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?pid=198718



Lily-livered Democrats lose game of chicken

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

05/24/07

Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, calls the language ‘extremely weak.’ Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, says she is ‘not likely to vote for [it].’ MoveOn.org sent an e-mail Wednesday morning to its 3 million-plus members demanding that Democrats vote no: ‘Every single Democrat must vote against this bill. This is a key test vote on whether your representative is serious about ending the war.’ The bill is the current version of the Iraq spending bill, which many Democrats, let alone those of us who voted for them, believed should include a timetable for withdrawal of the troops. It doesn’t...

https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275063,00.html



Don’t think of a US soldier unarmed, abandoned in Iraq

Truthout
by Jeff Cohen

05/24/07

The shared pretense of the White House and Democratic leaders is that funding the Iraq occupation is somehow a program on behalf of the troops. Like a subsidy for family farmers. … What Democrats need to be saying, repeatedly, is that it’s Bush/Cheney who abandoned several thousand US troops to avoidable deaths in a disastrous occupation, and tens of thousands to horrible injuries. And that they’re willing to abandon still more troops to unnecessary death and injury. … As Military Families Speak Out says: ‘Funding the war is not supporting our troops. The way to support our troops is to bring them home now and take care of them when they get here’...

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052407K.shtml



No peace, more spending

Disloyal Opposition
by J.D. Tuccille

05/24/07

Tell me please, what value was there in tossing the Republicans out of the congressional majority and handing the Democrats control ... party leaders are going to use their new position of power to roll over on the war in Iraq? Of course, that’s not all they did; they also managed to trade away any hope for a timetable on ending the war for billions of dollars in spending on their pet programs. Hooray for the new boss; same as the old boss. And so much for the promises of fiscal discipline and anti-war passion the new crop of Democrats offered up during the last election cycle...

https://www.tuccille.com/blog/2007/05/no-peace-more-spending.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Some Democrats Call War Funding Vote "Capitulation"

Congress passed a $120 billion Iraq war funding bill backed by President Bush on Thursday night as Democrats splintered over what some are calling "capitulation."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507K.shtml



Who Voted to Continue Funding the Occupation

A state-by-state list of who in the US Senate and House of Representatives voted to continue funding Bush's occupation of Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507L.shtml

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Dems Back Down, Approve War Money
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1441/

We Gave Them Our Hearts, They Gave Him A Blank Check
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1447/

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Attention Democrats: I Told You So! Would You Like to Wake Up Now?

https://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=624


Informant: reggie501

From ufpj-news

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Iraq: May the Quagmire Remain!

If you believe Middle East official discourse, everyone deplores the American presence in Iraq and everyone calls for an immediate departure.... And yet, between the words expressed and hidden intentions, there is a chasm. The region's states and political groups, pushed by their public opinion, will scarcely admit it, but they have no desire to see the Americans withdraw any time soon.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507G.shtml

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How Many More Will Congress Leave to Die?
https://www.codepinkalert.org//article.php?id=3106

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Democrats sell out troops, Congress votes to waste $100 billion more in Iraq
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Keith Olbermann presents a special comment on betrayal saying, "For the president - and the majority leaders and candidates and rank-and-file congressmen and senators of either party - there is only blame for this shameful and bi-partisan betrayal."

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