World-News

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/18/nirq118.xml


Informant: ranger116

"Democrats should recognize that the time has come to use the full power accorded Congress in time of war: the power of the purse. As Senator Russ Feingold says, 'Some will claim that cutting off funding for the war would endanger our brave troops on the ground. Not true. The safety of our servicemen and women in Iraq is paramount, and we can and should end funding for the war without putting our troops in further danger,'" write the editors of The Nation.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031807E.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=funding+the+war
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feingold

Frank Rich writes, "Tomorrow night is the fourth anniversary of President Bush's prime-time address declaring the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In the broad sweep of history, four years is a nanosecond, but in America, where memories are congenitally short, it's an eternity. That's why a revisionist history of the White House's rush to war, much of it written by its initial cheerleaders, has already taken hold."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031807D.shtml

Four years ago this Tuesday, George Bush began his ill-fated Iraq campaign. Today's news that the US is sending an extra battalion to Baghdad will push troop levels to 160,000 - 10,000 more than at the time of the invasion.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031807Y.shtml



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

Supplemental Doesn't Do Enough

Click here to tell Congress to vote against funding for more troops in Iraq.
https://action.truemajority.org/campaign/nosupplemental


From Information Clearing House

Despite denials from Washington, there are growing signs that the Bush administration has issued threats to its puppet government in Baghdad to meet US-dictated “benchmarks” or face the consequences.

https://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/mar2007/iraq-m16.shtml


From Information Clearing House

https://snipurl.com/1danz



Gates warns US plans to maintain presence in region 'for decades'
https://snipurl.com/1dao1



U.S. Occupation Forces Soldier Convicted Of Negligent Homicide

Girourd ordered them during a raid on a suspected insurgent camp to cut loose three detainees and then shoot them as they fled.

https://www.nbc11.com/news/11275860/detail.html



U.S. troops in Iraq often abuse prisoners: report

The United States has a flagrant record of violating the Geneva Convention in systematically abusing prisoners during the Iraqi War and the War in Afghanistan, says the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2006 issued on Thursday.

https://english.people.com.cn/200703/08/eng20070308_355547.html


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Geneva+Convention

https://iraqmemorial.org/


Informant: Bob Banner

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Iraq Veteran Speaks Out On War Crimes



https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5587990522549547050


Informant: ronaldneil

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SUPPORT THE TROOPS; BRING THEM HOME!
https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5931/


Informant: jensenmk

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