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The search for troops who went missing after a May 12 ambush is grinding down US forces already strained by the push to restore calm in and around Baghdad.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052107L.shtml

This is a moment for the left as a whole to come together to drive out the stale, blood-soaked doctrines of Blairism, re-establish core progressive principles and win sorely needed representation for working people."

https://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=11465


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Now, as the White House warns about the latest threat in the region, this time from Iran, it's worthwhile looking back to examine the deception, suspect intelligence, even lies, that convinced the world of the rightness of targeting Saddam Hussein.

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George Bush has reportedly been warned by White House advisers that prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown is likely to reverse Tony Blair's policy of supporting the US in Iraq.

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'Brown to cool relations with Bush'

Mr Bush is said to have been briefed by White House officials to expect an announcement on troop withdrawals by Britain during the first 100 days of Mr Brown's premiership, according to the Sunday Telegraph.

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Tony Blair, on his last visit to Iraq as prime minister, said he had no regrets about his part in the US-led invasion that removed Saddam Hussein.

https://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21762800-38201,00.html


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In a pessimistic assessment of the strategy designed to pull Iraq back from all-out civil war, Alastair Campbell, the outgoing defence attaché at the British Embassy in Baghdad, claimed that extra US forces were not achieving the desired drop in violence.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/20/wirq120.xml


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By Robert Fisk
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17740.htm



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By Walter Pincus

Two intelligence assessments from January 2003 predicted that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and subsequent U.S. occupation of Iraq could lead to internal violence and provide a boost to Islamic extremists and terrorists in the region, according to congressional sources and former intelligence officials familiar with the prewar studies.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17739.htm



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BRIAN BRADY

GORDON Brown will remove all British forces from Iraq before the next election under a plan to rebuild support among disillusioned Labour voters.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17738.htm

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6196/


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