World-News

At a meeting in mid-April in Geneva, convened by the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, the numbers presented confirmed what had long been suspected: the collapse of Iraq had created a refugee crisis, and that crisis was threatening to precipitate the collapse of the region.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051307D.shtml

As wildfires, floods and tornadoes batter the nation, the readiness of the National Guard to deal with those disasters, as well as potential terrorist assaults, is so depleted by deployments to foreign wars and equipment shortfalls that Congress is considering moves to curtail the president's powers over the Guard and require the Defense Department to analyze how prepared the country is for domestic emergencies.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051307Y.shtml

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Retired general: Iraq strain on National Guard will do harm

CNN

05/13/07

The National Guard isn’t as strong as it should be because of the war in Iraq and American communities will suffer as a result, retired Air Force Gen. Melvyn Montano said Saturday. Delivering the Democrats’ weekly radio address, Montano said the strain means it will take longer for Greensburg, Kansas, to recover from a devastating tornado that leveled the town a week ago...

https://tinyurl.com/yt6qo6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

John Batiste has traveled a long way in the last four years, from commanding the First Infantry Division in Iraq to quitting the Army after three decades in uniform and, now, from his new life overseeing a steel factory here, to openly challenging President Bush on his management of the war.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051307Z.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Batiste

https://tinyurl.com/3ahvvx

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NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRl4YLVW0b4&eurl


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=blood+for+oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Swanson

Flowers in war are a kind of beautiful obscenity, an attempt to create Paradise in Hell.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17687.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk

It would have mandated the beginning of withdrawal ("redeployment") of U.S. forces from Iraq within 90 days. 59 Democrats joined almost all Republicans in voting no. The roll call is here.

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/11/1115/


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+McGovern
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=redeployment

We've decided to leave our home. The only other option is extending the nightmare of life in Iraq.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2077281,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Peace, when it finally comes to Iraq, will inevitably be the result of a package deal of which a timetable for a US withdrawal is likely to be a central part. Despite Mr Cheney's claim that the US still seeks victory in Iraq.

https://www.counterpunch.org/patrick05122007.html


From Information Clearing House



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

By Patrick Foy

It was Kissinger's protégé and partner, Ambassador L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer III, the Managing Director of Kissinger Associates, Inc. for more than a decade, whom Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush placed in charge of the occupation of Iraq when Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush inexplicably cashiered the honest and fair-minded Lt. General Jay Garner, after scarcely a few weeks on the job.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17689.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Bremer
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kissinger

By KIRK SEMPLE

Officials with Mr. Sadr's bloc said 144 of Parliament's 275 members - including Sunnis, Shiites and at least one Kurd - had signed. The document is being developed into a draft bill by Parliament's legal and foreign relations committees, said Bahaa al-Araji, a member of the Sadr bloc and head of the legal committee.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17686.htm