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About 100 veterans and anti-war activists gathered at the Port of Oakland on Saturday. Carrying signs reading "Stop the War Machine," protesters called on the port to spend some of its $33 billion budget on Oakland schools, health care, and social services, and to stop shipping military supplies that support the war in Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041007O.shtml

There is no sign that the new US security push in Baghdad is accomplishing its main purpose: to create an island of stability in which Sunni Arabs, Shiite Arabs and Kurds can learn to run the country together. For American troops, Baghdad has become a deadlier battleground as they have poured into the capital to confront Sunni and Shiite militias on their home streets.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041007K.shtml



Huge Protest in Iraq Demands US Withdraw

Tens of thousands of protesters loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric, took to the streets of the holy city of Najaf on Monday in an extraordinarily disciplined rally to demand an end to the American military presence in Iraq, burning American flags and chanting "Death to America!"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041007J.shtml

Further evidence that the military sent soldiers with acute post-traumatic stress disorder, severe back injuries and other serious war wounds back to Iraq.

https://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/04/09/injured_soldiers/


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=traumatic+stress+disorder

The payments are huge sums for Iraqis, with the US Agency for International Development putting the present Iraq average annual income at $1830.

https://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21524215-2,00.html


From Information Clearing House

A neutron bomb is a thermonuclear weapon that produces minimal blast and heat but releases large amounts of lethal radiation that can penetrate armour and is especially destructive to human tissue.

https://snipurl.com/1fv32


From Information Clearing House

A tale of two photos

Photos grabbed off of Reuters show a long-shot view of Fardus Square... it's empty save for the U.S. Marines, the International Press, and a small handful of Iraqis.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm



The Toppling Of Saddam Statue: An Eyewitness Report
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3024.htm



Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue

A Marine recovery vehicle toppled the statue with a chain, but the effort appeared to be Iraqi-inspired because the psychological team had managed to pack the vehicle with cheering Iraqi children.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6424.htm

QUESTION: Do you favor a withdrawal of all United States military from Iraq within the next six months? ANSWER: Yes 52% No 39% Undecided 9%.

https://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=183463


From Information Clearing House

Army Lt. Colonel Donald Robinson is no stranger to bloodshed. As a civilian he served as a trauma surgeon at Cooper Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, a city so violent he says doctors call it the "Knife and Gun Club." But nothing in Camden could fully prepare him for what he saw as chief of surgical and critical care at the US Army's premier medical facility in Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040907HA.shtml

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/09/406/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+Bacevich