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President Bush again misframes the Iraq war debate. It's about the bases, not "funds for our troops."

https://ga3.org/ct/Ad20pgF1uzpZ/

Saudi King Abdullah, whose country is a close US ally, on Wednesday slammed the “illegitimate foreign occupation” of Iraq in an opening speech to the annual Arab summit in Riyadh.

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/March/middleeast_March452.xml&section=middleeast&col=


From Information Clearing House

Retired general paints grim picture of Iraq

An influential retired Army general has released a dire assessment of the situation in Iraq, based on a recent round of meetings there with Gen. David Petraeus and 16 other senior U.S. commanders.

https://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usgen285148209mar28,0,3363150.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print


From Information Clearing House

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General McCaffrey Says US Military in "Strategic Peril"

An influential retired Army general released a dire assessment of the situation in Iraq, based on a recent round of meetings there with Gen. David H. Petraeus, and 16 other senior US commanders. "The population is in despair," retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey wrote in an eight-page document compiled in his capacity as a professor at West Point. "Life in many of the urban areas is now desperate." McCaffrey says that the US military is in "strategic peril."

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

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US Armed Forces are in a position of strategic peril
https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6002/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

By Richard Horton

With more than 650,000 civilians dead in Iraq, our government must take responsibility for its lies.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17429.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=650%2C000+Iraqi+Deaths

Congressional Democrats are showing no signs of backing down on their rebuke of the Iraq war, insisting that President Bush will have to accept some sort of legislative timetable in exchange for the billions of dollars needed to fund the war.

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

Nearly a million displaced people in Iraq's increasingly volatile southern provinces are in urgent need of food, medicines and municipal services, local officials and NGOs say. Aid workers have called on international humanitarian organizations and the central government to provide more assistance to the growing numbers of displaced in the south of the country.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2971.shtml

The policy of divide and rule is as old as the Roman empire – a constant guide to the Christian West and implemented ruthlessly during its colonial onslaught on the rest of the world.

https://www.boloji.com/analysis2/0198.htm


From Information Clearing House

https://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=105953&bolum=8


From Information Clearing House

"Eight of the kids already fell on the ground. The guys kept shooting, they just wanted to make sure everyone was dead."

https://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,21452353,00.html


From Information Clearing House

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/118/



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