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"America is the reason why Iraq was invaded, so we would like the American administration to give aid to us refugees," she added. "I would like people to read this and tell Bush to help us."

https://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37302


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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail

Corpses lay unclaimed in deserted streets of central Baghdad yesterday and accusations of extrajudicial execution hung over the US-trained Iraqi Army after the most intensive gun battle in the capital since the American military launched its last-ditch security plan to prevent the collapse of the city.

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1642663.ece



Under siege: A special report from war-torn Mosel

"If you go in the streets by yourself, you'll be dead in 15 minutes," says Khasro Goran, the deputy governor of Mosul, the second largest Iraqi city.

https://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2442515.ece


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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/12/474/

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The Fiasco

Serge Truffaut reviews the results of the "Axis of Liars'" assault on Iraq.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041207G.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Serge+Truffaut

Common Dreams
by Debi Smith

04/11/07

May we continue to remember that there are people dying in the hot, dry sands and dusty streets of Iraq every day. For causes which — out of respect for surviving family and friends, and their potential differences of opinion on the war — won’t be discussed or debated here. Here, we take a moment to consider each of the following eighty-six young men and women who died, as members of the United States Military, in March of 2007. May we linger over their names, their ages (together they average 25 years), where they lived — envisioning what each might have left behind, imagining the dreams that died alongside them...

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/11/453/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Republican presidential contender John McCain on Wednesday called the four-year conflict in Iraq "necessary and just" and accused anti-war Democrats, including their leading White House candidates, of recklessness.

https://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/11620785/detail.html


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

Air Force planes and medical crews airlifted more than 850 wounded and injured servicemen out of war zones during March, according to the Air Force. In February, the Air Force flew out 767 patients.

https://snipurl.com/1g4jr


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A new study by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says the real troop increase could be as high as 48,000 -- more than double the number the President initially said.

https://www.defensetech.org/archives/003239.html



Pentagon to Extend Service for All Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan

Active-Duty Tours to Go to 15 Months Instead of 12 Months.
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=3027796



Military spending soars to keep troops in the service

The struggle to entice Army soldiers and Marines to stay in the military, after four years of war in Iraq, has ballooned into a $1 billion campaign, with bonuses soaring nearly sixfold since 2003.

https://snipurl.com/1g4jp


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

The eruption of demonstrations in the south of Iraq this week could rob the occupation forces of what was considered a critical bastion of support.

https://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37300


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