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War in Iraq lost,' says US Democrat leader

The war in Iraq "is lost" and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said on Thursday.

https://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1091945


From Information Clearing House

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Harry Reid Tells Bush: War is 'Lost'
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/20/642/



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NOW's David Brancaccio speaks with two very different men who allege that US bungling in Iraq created and fueled the deadly insurgency. Paul Hughes, a retired Army colonel, was part of the transition team after the US invasion of Iraq, and Omar Fekeiki was a Washington Post reporter and translator who risked his life to help US journalists.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041907U.shtml

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/19/622/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+refugees

President Bush sparred across the table with Democratic Congressional leaders opposed to the Iraq war on Wednesday in a prelude to a veto showdown over a conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 3,200 US troops. Democrats said they were determined to press Bush for a change in policy.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041907C.shtml



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The head of an al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq said the country had become a "university of terrorism", producing highly qualified warriors, since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

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War on Terror looks like a fraud

Four years after the invasion, it's becoming pretty clear that Iraq has been "pacified" solely for the purpose of economic aggression. Humanitarian considerations are moot. The awful plight of Iraq's one million Christians, who have no place in the new Iraq, underscores this ugly truth.

https://snipurl.com/1h37u


From Information Clearing House

Sarah Olson reports: "Iraq Veterans Against the War's Reppenhagen says, 'There's an unwritten social contract a service member makes with his nation.' He added: 'That contract says he will be sent to war only when peaceful solutions have been exhausted. When that service member comes home, the contract dictates that he is taken care of and given aid. The American people and US government officials are breaking that contract. In light of this, it's very hard to judge harshly those who resist the Iraq war.'"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041907N.shtml



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The US State Department has so far failed to respond to requests to reawaken a highly praised medical program aimed at saving military and civilian lives in war-torn Iraq. The program used voluntary US doctors and other personnel to provide computer technology and training to medical students in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041907M.shtml

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6100/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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The Nation Institute's Tom Engelhardt notes that the administration's familiar war vocabulary and imagery of the last four years is missing in action. All those turned corners, those milestones, he says, have finally disappeared." In this essential piece, Engelhardt offers a close examination of the new war words.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/3014.shtml



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