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Scheer reflects on the progress in Iraq since the fall of Saddam: "Yep, you did it, George - mission impossible accomplished. Unbelievably, four years of a bungled occupation have managed to make Saddam Hussein’s tyranny look good in comparison with 'liberated Iraq.'"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032107F.shtml

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rudkla - 21. Mär, 23:34

Four years after the invasion

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

03/20/07

Four years after the US and British troops invaded Iraq the country is drenched in blood and its people full of fear. Iraqis often have a look of half-suppressed panic in their eyes as they tell how violent death had touched them and their families again and again...

https://www.counterpunch.org/patrick03202007.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 21. Mär, 18:04

US troops want to quit Iraq

For US troops from 9th Cavalry Regiment bumping around the dangerous streets of Baghdad in Humvees after dark on Monday, news that their deployment in Iraq could be extended fell like a hammer blow.

https://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_Britain_Iraq_Poll.html

From Information Clearing House

Has he no shame? Bush: 'Iraq withdrawal may spark 9/11 repeat'

President George W Bush used the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war yesterday to warn that US withdrawal would unleash a "contagion of violence" that could spark a repeat of the September 11 attacks.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17364.htm

Blood and Pork: Funding more than war

Nearly half of the 21 billion that House Democrats added to President Bush's request for emergency war funding would go to nonmilitary spending and to pork projects.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17362.htm

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fourth+anniversary

rudkla - 21. Mär, 11:41

Iraq: facing up to failure

Tony Blair's successor will have no option but to accept defeat and pursue a course of damage limitation.

https://snipurl.com/1djj2

Most Britons say Iraq invasion a mistake

Fifty-five percent of respondents said they felt the war in Iraq has made Britain less safe, and only 5 percent said it left them feeling safer, according to the British Broadcasting Corp. poll commissioned to mark the invasion's fourth anniversary.

https://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_Britain_Iraq_Poll.html

From Information Clearing House

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fourth+anniversary

rudkla - 21. Mär, 11:38

Saddam VP hanged on invasion anniversary

Former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was the third of Saddam's top aides to be hanged since the ex-president was executed in December after a trial in a US-backed Iraqi tribunal that was criticised by human rights groups as unfair.

https://www.thedailystar.net/2007/03/21/d70321012915.htm

The regrets of the man who brought down Saddam

Kadhim al-Jubouri spoke of his joy at being the leader of the crowd that toppled the statue in Baghdad's Firdous Square. Now, he is filled with nothing but regret.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2037219,00.html

Iraq: A country drenched in blood

Four years to the day after US and British troops invaded Iraq, its people are full of fear. Iraqis often have a look of half-suppressed panic in their eyes as they tell how violent death has touched them again and again.

https://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2374380.ece

Andrew J. Bacevich: What's an Iraqi Life Worth?

In Iraq, lives differ in value -- and so do deaths. In this disparity lies an important reason why the United States has botched this war.

https://snipurl.com/1djiz

From Information Clearing House

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Saddam+hanged
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rudkla - 21. Mär, 11:30