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An active-duty Army officer has published a blistering attack on US generals, saying that they have botched the war in Iraq and misled Congress about the situation there. Yingling's comments are especially striking because his unit's performance in securing the northwestern Iraqi city of Tall Afar was cited by President Bush in a March 2006 speech and provided the model for the new security plan underway in Baghdad.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042707A.shtml

by Frida Berrigan, TomPaine.com

After four years, apparently the Iraq War needs ... a new name.
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CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

04/26/07

Ever since President George Bush announced that US soldiers would play a more active role in the war in a speech on 10 January, US casualties have been creeping up. Although it is the figure of 3,332 US soldiers dead since 2003 that is heavily publicised, many of the 24,314 wounded have suffered severe injuries that would have killed them in previous wars but they survive because of advances in medicine. US losses have been surprisingly steady over the past three years, with 849 soldiers killed in 2004, 846 in 2005, 822 in 2006 and 329 so far this year. But the US strategy since the start of the ’surge’ in Baghdad on 14 February has been to make greater use of US troops and give less priority to training Iraqi forces. This is likely to lead to an increase in US casualties that are often a function of the number of patrols being made...

https://www.counterpunch.org/patrick04262007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Asia Times
by Gareth Porter

04/26/07

The notion of a two-sided war in the Sunni heartland of Iraq between al-Qaeda and US forces bolsters the Bush administration’s position that any talk of a timetable for withdrawal is defeatist. To avoid such accusations, the Democrat legislation setting a timetable for withdrawal contains large loopholes that would allow US troops to carry out operations in the Sunni area indefinitely. This political gamesmanship ignores the anti-al-Qaeda Sunni resistance organizations, which represent a clear alternative to an endless US occupation...

https://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID27Ak02.html



Dealing with the devil

Truthout
by Marc Ash

04/26/07

The Marines have a rule: they never, ever leave fallen Marines on the battlefield. No such call to honor and duty concerns our political leaders. Those now seeking the latest one hundred billion dollars say that the money is needed to support our troops. That is not true. Our troops have been abandoned in a foreign land, their only purpose, to justify another one hundred billion dollars, and another. The money itself becomes the rational[e] for continuing the war...

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042607A.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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from Reason to Freedom
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

04/23/07

Thanks to George W. Bush children and young people in Iraq never have a ‘normal’ day, a day when they can feel safe and go about their lives. Every day in Iraq children, young people, women and the elderly along with good, decent, men simply trying to survive are snuffed out horribly. Their homes are invaded, going to the grocery store is fraught with fear; they live with one hour of electricity a day. That is how it is. When their loved ones are shot there are no counselors and George Bush, the man who did this to them and to us, leads no memorial service. Now, more than ever, we need to remember what is happening to a country Bush decided to invade to alleviate his feelings about his father and help out his friends who wanted to ensure that the flow of profits from the lives and blood of Americans would continue. Bush and his friends have made violence an ordinary part of our lives...

https://www.reasontofreedom.com/the_bush_legacy_of_death.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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https://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2065440,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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Missing from the vote were GOP Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both staunch advocates of the president's Iraq policy. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., sided with Republicans in opposing the bill.

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Senator McCain argues for immediate troop withdrawal from Somalia 1993

Video
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Standing on the bodies of 655,000 Iraqi dead

McCain: Terrorists will come here

"If we leave Iraq there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home," the Arizona senator said, calling the war against al-Qaida "a struggle between good and evil."

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From Information Clearing House

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Iraq Showdown Looms After Senate Vote

With Thursday's vote by the Senate to begin withdrawing troops, the stage has been set for confrontation between Congress and the president. And with US war casualties mounting, Bush, whose low public-approval ratings have been the longest-running of any president in more than 50 years, will likely have a difficult time holding on to nervous Republicans as the election season approaches.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3033.shtml

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With landmark votes, Congress poses 'bold wartime challenge' to Bush
https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6134/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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Academics are being assassinated, prisoners are being tortured, women are being murdered by their own families in so-called "honor killings," and civilians continue to be cut down by rampant violence, the United Nations said today in a report painting a grim picture of life in Iraq.

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From Information Clearing House

By Anne Flaherty
Associated Press

A defiant Democratic-controlled Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require the start of troop withdrawals from Iraq by Oct. 1, propelling Congress toward a historic veto showdown with President Bush on the war.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17604.htm



U.S. Congress Approves Iraq War Withdrawal Plan

By Richard Cowan

In an unprecedented slap at President George W. Bush's war policy, the U.S. Congress on Thursday approved legislation that links withdrawal of combat troops to paying for the war, ensuring a certain veto.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17602.htm

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Senate Votes to Bring Troops Home

The Senate narrowly passed a $124 billion war spending bill early this afternoon after an emotional debate about the best way forward in Iraq. The vote will send the measure to President Bush, who has vowed to veto it because it would require American troops to begin withdrawing by October 1.

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