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In the four years since the Iraq war began, 2 million refugees have left the country. The journey to Syria is a dangerous one -- but as it gets safer, the trip is becoming more and more popular.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,474205,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Senate Democrats ignored a veto threat and pushed through a bill Thursday requiring President Bush to start withdrawing troops from "the civil war in Iraq," dealing a rare, sharp rebuke to a wartime commander in chief.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032907A.shtml

With both houses of Congress now firmly on record in favor of withdrawing from Iraq, President Bush vowed Wednesday not to negotiate a timetable with Democrats, and a confrontation appeared inevitable as each side prepared to blame the other for delays in providing money for the war.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032907M.shtml



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

Statesville Record & Landmark

03/29/07

President Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress lurched toward a veto showdown over Iraq on Wednesday, the commander in chief demanding a replenishment of war funding with no strings and Speaker Nancy Pelosi counseling him, ‘Calm down with the threats.’ Bush said imposition of a ’specific and random date of withdrawal would be disastrous’ for U.S. troops in Iraq and he predicted that lawmakers would take the blame if the money ran short...

https://tinyurl.com/2zrxg5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

https://www.counterpunch.org/everest03282007.html


Informant: Duane Roberts

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/28/135/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tillman
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer

Last week, a convoy of approximately 20 veterans riding in converted school buses left Fayetteville, North Carolina. They were sponsored by Veterans for Peace, armed with literature and headed for New Orleans, where they are spending this week rebuilding houses in the Ninth Ward. On the way, the group stopped at military bases throughout the South. Their goal? To pass out copies of the Appeal for Redress, GI rights information and copies of the videos "Ground Truth" and "Sir! No Sir!"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807B.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=redress
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarah+Olson