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by Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com

Congress, when you fold on Iraq, you're not playing Texas Hold'em; it's a matter of life and death.

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Liberal Democrats who have reluctantly backed House leaders on the Iraq war spending bill may defect due to the leadership's decision to eliminate any timeline for withdrawal from the legislation. That could force the leadership to rely on Republican votes to pass the bill, which is expected to come to the floor as early as Thursday.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052307L.shtml



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A U.S. Army medic who refused to load his gun in Iraq and then escaped through a base window in Germany rather than be deployed a second time returned home to Los Angeles this week after serving six months in a U.S. military prison.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3084.shtml



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More than three months into the implementation of the 'surge' strategy, skepticism is still running high. Except among neo-conservatives, who have been the strategy's most enthusiastic champions, most analysts believe it is doomed to failure in the absence of major moves - of which there have so far been virtually none - by the Iraqi government to promote national reconciliation with the Sunni minority.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3085.shtml



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Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Doug Bandow

05/22/07

By suggesting that Americans look at their own government’s actions, Rep. Paul took a shot at one of the nation’s biggest sacred cows: we can do whatever we want in the world without consequence. For decades that seemed to be true. But no longer. It is critical that we honestly and realistically assess the consequences of US foreign policy...

https://www.mises.org/story/2595


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Unqualified Offerings
by Jim Henley

05/22/07

[O]nce again, the fallback strategy reveals the irreducible imperative of our Iraq adventure: it must never end. Iraq is forever, as far as our Republican elites, and too much of the Democratic elite, are concerned. The ‘lilypad’ plan offers no promise of reducing Iraq’s violence or effecting national reconciliation. Those are guilt trips to be laid on us when our rulers think our concern for Iraqis will perpetuate the core mission of never leaving. They probably even think of ‘preventing full-blown civil war’ or all those other officially humanitarian missions would be nice bonus accomplishments. But the purpose is staying in Iraq now that we’re there. If they can’t accomplish that by playing on our humanitarian impulses, they’ll try instead to sneak past the national attention span: out of sight, out of mind...

https://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/05/22/6461


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
by Stewart M. Powell

05/22/07

The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday. This ’second surge’ of troops in Iraq, which is being executed by extending tours for brigades already there and by deploying more units, could boost the number of combat troops to as many as 98,000 by the end of this year. When support troops are included, the total number of U.S. troops in Iraq could increase from 162,000 now to more than 200,000 — the most ever — by the end of the year. The efforts to reinforce U.S. troops in Iraq are being carried out without the fanfare that accompanied President Bush’s initial troop surge in January...

https://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/316612_secondsurge22.html


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Consortium News
by Robert Parry

05/22/07

Every other month, Gold Star mother Teresa Arciola drives from her home in Westchester County, New York, to Arlington Cemetery in Virginia, sits on her son’s grave and reads aloud from ‘Corduroy,’ his favorite baby book. Another mother spent winter afternoons in a sleeping bag stretched across her son’s final resting place. The unspeakable suffering of these parents of dead soldiers stands in marked contrast to the maneuvering over the Iraq War now underway across the river in Washington. There, George W. Bush appears quietly planning another escalation of the Iraq War — possibly doubling U.S. combat troops by Christmas — and many members of Congress are frightened of the political repercussions if they stand up to him...

https://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/052207.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

05/23/07

With the Iraqi adventure now widely seen as a misadventure, however, one that even its original authors and promoters are rushing to run away from, our new civic religion of warrior-worship is suffering more than the taunts of a few village atheists. The debunking of the myths that led us to invade Iraq has the country convinced that the war was a mistake from the outset — but still the war goes on. ‘What kind of democracy is this?’ Bacevich wants to know. This is the kind of democracy it is: the kind that can have both parties calling for an increase in the size of the U.S. military at a moment when the people are sick and tired of war and groaning under the weight of confiscatory taxation. The kind that has all ‘major’ candidates for the White House vowing that nothing is ‘off the table’ when it comes to Iran — and pledging to prosecute the war in Iraq more efficiently and successfully than Bush. What the past four years have taught us is that we are the kind of ‘democracy’ in which the major parties are merely the ‘right’ and ‘left’ wings of a single party — the War Party...

https://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11007


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Fox News

05/22/07

Presidential hopeful John Edwards said Monday that Americans should speak out against the war in Iraq this Memorial Day weekend, renewing an anti-war call that has been criticized by the leader of the American Legion. … The former U.S. senator from North Carolina and 2004 vice presidential nominee said the most patriotic position now is to end the war, and the best way to honor veterans this Memorial Day weekend is to bring the troops home from Iraq. ‘There’s another thing we need to do as patriots, to serve the men and women who are serving this country in Iraq, and that is to speak out this weekend,’ Edwards said. He said ending the war is key to repairing the damaged U.S. reputation abroad...

https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274417,00.html


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