World-News

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/07/1032/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+casualties

"The date when the struggle for Iraqi oil began is less critical than our ability to trace the ever-growing willingness to use 'any means necessary' to control such a 'vital prize' into the present," writes Michael Schwartz. "We know, for example, that before and after he ascended to the vice-presidency, Dick Cheney has had his eye squarely on the prize."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050707D.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Schwartz

Dean Baker writes: "President Bush is right to be concerned about economic growth. It provides a basis for rising living standards. But his concern that reducing greenhouse gas emissions may slow growth is inconsistent with his apparent lack of concern about the economic damage done by the war in Iraq."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050707C.shtml



The Cost of War

Bill Moyers Journal addresses the cost of the Iraq war. Moyers tells us: "As Democrats and Republicans in Washington wrangle over a strategy, there is speculation that no matter what agreement they reach ... American troops will be in Iraq at least a decade to come. We are not finished with the costs of this war."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051407A.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dean+Baker
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moyers

The editors of The New York Times write: "Whether out of blind loyalty or blind denial, most Congressional Republicans are prepared to back up President Bush's veto of the Iraq spending bill. It is now essential that the revised version not back away from demanding that Iraq's prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, finally deliver on the crucial national reconciliation measures he has spent the last year dodging. And it must make clear that American support for his failures - and Mr. Bush's - is fast waning."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050707B.shtml

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The Hard Bigotry of the New York Times
https://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/22231


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



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

Los Angeles Times laments: "This newspaper reluctantly endorsed the US troop surge as the last, best hope for stabilizing conditions so that the elected Iraqi government could assume full responsibility for its affairs. But we also warned that the troops should not be used to referee a civil war. That, regrettably, is what has happened."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050707N.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bring+them+home
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

In this episode of Hometown Baghdad, we return to Ausama's grandmother's home, which has been raided by US forces. We get a tour of the ransacked home. The family pictures scattered everywhere, the bullet holes, the shattered glass. "We are the people they should be protecting," Ausama says, "I will never trust any security forces."

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3046.shtml



THE BODY REACTS

Iraqi blogger 'Still Alive' left Baghdad recently to study in the United States. In this short diary, she captures the wrenching pain of being separated from her home, her friends and her family as her country deteriorates. 'A few days ago I looked at 300 news pictures from Iraq,' she begins. 'The next morning I talked to my family in Baghdad. A few hours later I was sick.'

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3049.shtml

While Republicans have remained disciplined during the most recent legislative battle over the imposition of a deadline for the withdrawal of US combat troops, most analysts appear to agree that, absent measurable progress on the ground in stabilizing Iraq, they will begin deserting Bush in droves by September.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3048.shtml



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

The US government has told congress of its plans to sell around $500 million of military arms and equipment to Iraq.

https://snipurl.com/1jkuk


From Information Clearing House

British Muslims have been radicalised by the Government's disastrous policies in the Middle East, claims the Church of England.

https://snipurl.com/1jkuh


From Information Clearing House

So far US forces in Iraq have paid out $32m for 'wrongful deaths'. Karzan Sherabayani went back to Kirkuk to ask why his uncle had to die.

https://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2073472,00.html


From Information Clearing House