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Hartford Courant

04/02/07

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday he wants to cut off money for the Iraq war next year, making clear for the first time that Democrats are willing to pull out all the stops to end U.S. involvement. Reid’s new strategy faces an uphill battle because many of his colleagues see yanking funds as a dangerous last resort. The proposal increases the stakes on the debate and marks a new era for the Democratic leadership once reluctant to talk about Congress’ power of the purse...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cut+Iraq+war+funds
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/02/267/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monica+Benderman

Sen. John McCain strolled briefly through an open-air market in Baghdad today in an effort to prove that Americans are "not getting the full picture" of what's going on in Iraq. He was accompanied by "100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters and two Apache gunships overhead." Still photographs provided by the military to NBC News seemed to show McCain wearing a bulletproof vest during his visit.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207C.shtml



A Salute for His Wounded, a Last Touch for His Dead

Unaware of a deep wound beneath his body armor, Sergeant Sebban, a 29-year-old medic, shook off the blast and staggered to his first-aid station to treat casualties, other soldiers recalled. "Let's get ready!" he shouted, one soldier said. Then he collapsed. He bled to death even before the evacuation helicopter arrived to carry him away, 17 minutes after the 6:00 PM attack.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040207D.shtml



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

CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

03/31/07

Has the end of America’s war on Iraq been brought closer by the recent vote in the House of Representatives? On March 23, the full House voted 218 to 212 to set a timeline on the withdrawal of US troops, with September 1, 2008, as the putative date after which war funding might be restricted to withdrawal purposes only. It’s not exactly a stringent deadline. It only requires Bush to seek Congressional approval before extending the occupation and spending new funds to do so. … Although nothing of any significance actually happened on March 23, to read liberal commentators one would think we’d witnessed some profound upheaval, courtesy of Nancy Pelosi’s skillful uniting of the various Democratic factions. What she accomplished in practice was the neutering of the antiwar faction...

https://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn03312007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The Age [Australia]

04/01/07

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the US withdrawal from Vietnam, says the problems in Iraq are more complex than that conflict, and military victory is no longer possible. He also said he sympathises with the troubles facing US President George Bush. ‘A ‘military victory’ in the sense of total control over the whole territory, imposed on the entire population, is not possible,’ Kissinger told The Associated Press in Tokyo, where he received an honorary degree from Waseda University. The faceless, ubiquitous nature of Iraq’s insurgency, as well as the religious divide between Shi’ite and Sunni rivals, makes negotiating peace more complex, he said...

https://tinyurl.com/2ogf56


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/01/236/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070401/ap_on_go_co/obama_interview


Informant: Ashley Smith



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

The US military death toll in March, the first full month of the security crackdown, was nearly twice that of the Iraqi army, which American and Iraqi officials say is taking the leading role in the latest attempt to curb violence in the capital, surrounding cities and Anbar province, according to figures compiled on Saturday.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040107Z.shtml



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