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Dahr Jamail writes: "Since the shock-and-awe invasion of Iraq began in March 2003, that country's explosive unraveling has never left the news or long been off the front page. Yet the fallout beyond its borders from the destruction, disintegration and ethnic mayhem in Iraq has almost avoided notice. And yet with - according to United Nations estimates - approximately 50,000 Iraqis fleeing their country each month (and untold numbers of others being displaced internally), Iraq is producing one of the - if not the - most severe refugee crisis on the planet, a crisis without a name and without significant attention."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042307F.shtml



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Paul Krugman writes: "There are two ways to describe the confrontation between Congress and the Bush administration over funding for the Iraq surge. You can pretend that it's a normal political dispute. Or you can see it for what it really is: a hostage situation in which a beleaguered President Bush, barricaded in the White House, is threatening dire consequences for innocent bystanders - the troops - if his demands aren't met."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042307C.shtml



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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=funding+the+Iraq+war

Members of Saddam Hussein's party were ousted from Iraq's ministries and military in 2003. After the invasion, they were Iraqi pariahs, seen by Americans as remaining too loyal to Saddam Hussein to be trusted. Now the US wants to reintegrate many disenfranchised former Baathists.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042307B.shtml

Defying a fresh veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Congress will pass legislation within days requiring the start of a troop withdrawal from Iraq by October 1, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042307I.shtml



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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid

Bill Moyers and his team piece together reporting that shows how the media was complicit in shaping the "public mind" toward the war, and ask what has happened to the media's role as skeptical "watchdog" over government power.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042307P.shtml



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

President Bush is playing a game of political chicken with Democratic Congressional leaders over nearly $100 billion to fund his war policies in a supplemental appropriations bill. The president threatens to veto the bill after a House-Senate conference committee reconciles the differences in their separate bills, passes the reconciled version in both Houses and then sends it to the White House.... The administration's main tactic is to berate Congressional leaders for "holding up funding for the troops," write Garett Reppenhagen, Michael McPhearson and Kevin Martin.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042307L.shtml



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by Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy In Focus

Conflict between Shia and Sunni is the result of modern political turmoil, not religious differences.

https://ga3.org/ct/Gd20pgF1zRTP/

Excerpts from Army Maj. Gen. Eldon A. Bargewell's report:
https://snipurl.com/1hlid


From Information Clearing House

"We know how to make them talk. We know their back streets. We beat them. I don't beat them that much, but enough so he feels the pain and it makes him desperate."

https://snipurl.com/1hlh0


From Information Clearing House

Some 1.9 million Iraqis have been displaced within the country since the 2003 US-led invasion, according to United Nations figures, with as many as 2.7 million expected by the end of this year. The crisis of Iraqi refugees is the subject of a two-day United Nations conference in Geneva starting Tuesday.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042207E.shtml