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On a C-Span morning call-in show, a military wife took issue with William Kristol's disconnect from the personal strains of military families. Kristol was almost speechless.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17630.htm



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US President George W Bush has vetoed a Congressional bill that would have linked war funding to a timetable for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6613141.stm


From Information Clearing House



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

And The Lies Go On
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/01/882/

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Mission Accomplished?

Voice your outrage at the President's insistence on ignoring the will of the American people at
https://www.dccc.org/r/61385/482695/

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'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED' BY THE NUMBERS

Think Progress has a 'Mission Accomplished' By The Numbers chart comparing war stats from May 1, 2003 and today.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3040.shtml



RANSOM FOR CORPSES

I feel like it's time for all news outlets to adopt the uniform practice of starting each horror story from Iraq with "Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse..."

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3039.shtml



THE CLOCK TICKS FOR THEE (IN BAGHDAD AND WASHINGTON)

'It had taken much thought and planning that wartime May Day four years ago when George W. Bush co-piloted a Naval jet onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln,' writes Tom Engelhardt. 'This White House has plunged Iraq and the world into the geopolitical equivalent of a blood-and-gore exploitation film that simply won't end. Call that Mission Accomplished!'

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3036.shtml

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Here’s what our mission accomplished

Boston Globe
by Derrick Z. Jackson

05/02/07

This is four years after President Bush staged one of the gaudiest self-congratulations in American history. He landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln in a jet fighter, popped out in a flight jumpsuit and proclaimed major combat operations to be over in Iraq under the now-infamous banner, ‘Mission Accomplished.’ It is four years after Bush said, ‘We do not know the day of final victory, but we have seen the turning of the tide. No act of the terrorists will change our purpose, or weaken our resolve, or alter their fate. Their cause is lost.’ Bush’s cause is so lost that 71 percent of Americans disagree with his handling of Iraq in the latest New York Times/CBS poll and 64 percent say Bush should set a timetable for troop withdrawal in 2008...

https://tinyurl.com/26kxww


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mission+accomplished
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barry+Lando
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Derrick+Z.+Jackson

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6143/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The number of terrorism incidents in Iraq - and the resulting deaths, injuries and kidnappings - skyrocketed from 2005 to 2006, according to statistics released by US counterterrorism officials yesterday.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050107B.shtml

One Iraq War veteran remembers how the "Mission Accomplished" banner became a mockery.

https://tellusthemission.org/
https://ga3.org/ct/n120pgF1xRYs/

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Bush's Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Tom Engelhardt writes: "This White House has plunged Iraq and the world into the geopolitical equivalent of a blood-and-gore exploitation film that simply won't end. Call that 'Mission Accomplished!'"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050107D.shtml



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

CounterPunch
by Kevin Zeese

04/30/07

While the Senate was voting 51-46 to approve $95 billion more in war funding, in a bill that included a loophole ridden withdrawal plan, inside the Hart Senate office building more than 75 anti-war demonstrators participated in a dramatic demonstration. … The demonstration was dramatic because anti-war activists are getting angrier at the congress and the president for extending the war rather than ending it. A wide range of groups came together to support the Hart demonstration and the various influences in the anti-war movement — military families, vets, peace activists among them — were seen in the action...

https://www.counterpunch.org/zeese04302007.html



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+Zeese

Boston Globe

04/30/07

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that President Bush will reject any attempt by Congress to require the Iraqi government to meet benchmarks as a condition for US troops remaining in Iraq, in a blow to emerging efforts to craft a compromise war-funding bill. Bush, who plans this week to veto a measure that would require a troop withdrawal to begin by this fall, wants a bill that gives American officials complete flexibility in conducting military and diplomatic efforts in Iraq, Rice said. ‘What we don’t want to do … is to tie our own hands so that we cannot act creatively and flexibly to support the very policies in Iraq that we’re trying to enforce,’ she said on ABC’s This Week...

https://tinyurl.com/2yg32k


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
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