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Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the decision was not related to the military's so-called "surge." But the replacement forces offer generals the flexibility to maintain heightened troop levels through 2007.

https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08466611.htm


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13 year old Severm Suzuki, plead for the future of her generation.
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Source: IRIN

Asif Muhammad, a 32-year-old engineer, says he is desperately looking for help for his child who is suffering from cancer. A widower since his wife was killed a year ago in a Baghdad explosion, he is trying to survive and take care of his only child, seven-year-old daughter Maysoon.

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A Few Reminders

By Charley Reese

A few reminders: Iraq is not our country. Our invasion and occupation are illegal, being in violation of both international law and our own traditions. We were lied into war. We are still being lied to. Both the Bush administration and the Democrats intend to maintain American troops in Iraq indefinitely.

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Nach einer Pentagon-Bericht sagt mehr als die Hälfte der befragten US-Soldaten, dass irakische Zivilisten nicht mit Respekt behandelt werden müssen.

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25235/1.html

Two wars and a decade of sanctions have led to a huge rise in the mortality rate among young children in Iraq, making statistics that were once the envy of the Arab world now comparable with those of sub-Saharan Africa. A new report shows that in the years since 1990, Iraq has seen its child mortality rate soar by 125 percent, the highest increase of any country in the world.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050807N.shtml

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Infant mortality in Iraq soars as young pay the price for war

Figures collated by the charity show that in 1990 Iraq's mortality rate for under-fives was 50 per 1,000 live births. In 2005 it was 125.

https://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2521681.ece


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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

05/07/07

The Bush administration and Congress have put too much faith in governments — the U.S. as well as the Iraqi — to remedy the chaos in Iraq. To keep the pressure on the administration for eventual U.S. troop withdrawals, the Democrats have already begun to blame the Iraqi government for not meeting benchmarks for progress and are threatening to include them in legislation. Some congressional Republicans, sensing another electoral disaster in 2008, are beginning to mimic such Democratic arguments. Although the time is not yet ripe for a congressionally required schedule for troop withdrawal to override a presidential veto, the time for blaming the Iraqis and attempting to impose benchmarks will soon arrive...

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The government must release a draft of a 2002 dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the Information Commissioner has ruled.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6627381.stm


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A draft law being considered by the Iraqi parliament would enable US companies to take control of Iraq's oil industry, oil experts in the country say.

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By Gov. Bill Richardson

Congress has the ability to end this war under the War Powers Act -- let's not wait or waver while more people die. And de-authorizing the war should mean removing all our troops. Every last one.

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