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The new US Embassy in Baghdad will be the world's largest and most expensive foreign mission, though it may not be large enough or secure enough to cope with the chaos in Iraq. The compound is a symbol both of how much the United States has invested in Iraq and how the circumstances of its involvement are changing.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052007D.shtml



The Colossus of Baghdad

Tom Engelhardt considers the new American embassy being built in Baghdad and writes: "As an outpost, this vast compound reeks of one thing: imperial impunity. It was never meant to be an embassy from a democracy that had liberated an oppressed land. From the first thought, the first sketch, it was to be the sort of imperial control-center suitable for the planet's sole 'hyperpower,' dropped into the middle of the oil heartlands of the globe. It was to be Washington's dream and Kansas City's idea of a palace fit for an embattled American proconsul - or a khan."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052907F.shtml

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Baghdad embassy plans turn up online

Lebanon Democrat

05/31/07

Detailed plans for the new U.S. Embassy under construction in Baghdad appeared online Thursday in a breach of the tight security surrounding the sensitive project. Computer-generated projections of the soon-to-be completed, heavily fortified compound were posted on the Web site of the Kansas City, Mo.-based architectural firm that was contracted to design the massive facility in the Iraqi capital...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+Embassy+Baghdad
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

By Patrick J. Buchanan

It was the decisive moment of the South Carolina debate. Hearing Rep. Ron Paul recite the reasons for Arab and Islamic resentment of the United States, including 10 years of bombing and sanctions that brought death to thousands of Iraqis after the Gulf War, Rudy Giuliani broke format and exploded.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17736.htm



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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Giuliani
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan

Video

Directed by Josh Rushing, a veteran Marine Corps media spokesman, "SPIN: The Art of Selling War" is an investigative documentary that looks at the standard justification for going to war by the American administrations of past and present.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17732.htm

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6187/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FOIA

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/18/1296/

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Kidnap and Torture: New Claims of Army War Crimes in Iraq

By Robert Verkaik

The British Army is facing new allegations that it was involved in "forced disappearances", hostage-taking and torture of Iraqi civilians after the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17730.htm



"It Was Torture": Soldiers 'Not Brought To Justice'

BBC Panorama Video

"He had 93 separate injuries on his body when he was left for dead on a toilet floor."

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17731.htm



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

Remember those photos of Iraqi women triumphantly raising freshly inked fingers for Western cameras after voting in their new democracy? They were presented to the world by the US government as an indication of a policy that would liberate Iraqi women and men. Well, it didn't quite work out that way.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051807E.shtml

https://www.iraqslogger.com/downloads/BPIraq0507.pdf
https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6184/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Cincinnati Enquirer

05/17/07

Anti-war Democrats in the Senate failed in an attempt to cut off funds for the Iraq war on Wednesday, a lopsided bipartisan vote that masked growing impatience within both political parties over President Bush’s handling of the four-year conflict. The 67-29 vote against the measure left it far short of the 60 needed to advance. More than half the Senate’s Democrats supported the move, exposing divisions within the party but also marking a growth in anti-war sentiment from last summer, when only a dozen members of the rank and file backed a troop withdrawal deadline....

https://tinyurl.com/ztcev


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Shoulder to shoulder at the White House for the last time before Blair steps down on June 27, the two leaders heaped praise on each other and defended themselves against critics of a war that is increasingly unpopular in both countries.

https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17351775.htm



Blair's legacy on Middle East a dark stain

Blair's partnership with the Bush Administration have supported a very narrow, radical neoconservative agenda in the Middle East, exacerbating conditions for wider instability in the region.

https://snipurl.com/1l26r


From Information Clearing House



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

"It's something that affects us every single day," Tina said, "when he's 23 years old and he can't even climb the stairs. He has bad nightmares where he thinks he's back in Iraq."

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17724.htm