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General Pace's Skewed Morality

by David McReynolds, TomPaine.com
https://ga3.org/ct/Qp20pgF1dXpl/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=General+Pace

by Michael T. McPhearson, TomPaine.com

To end the bloodshed in Iraq, civil disobedience may be not just laudable, but absolutely essential.

https://ga3.org/ct/R720pgF1dXpP/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+disobedience
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+T.+McPhearson

As a former C.I.A. agent, the author knows how mercenaries work: in the shadows. But how did a notorious former British officer, Tim Spicer, come to coordinate the second-largest army in Iraq—the tens of thousands of private security contractors?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17324.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+contractors

An Army already stretched painfully thin is now being asked to find the additional 25,000-plus troops to man President Bush's escalation in Iraq and, it's now obvious, prepare for additional combat rotations next year.

https://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16903393.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

Col. Ted Westhusing, a West Point scholar, put a bullet in his head in Iraq after reporting widespread corruption. His suicide note -- complaining about human rights abuses and other crimes -- was addressed to his two commanders, including Gen. David Petraeus, now leader of the U.S. "surge" effort in Iraq. It urged them to "Reevaluate yourselves....You are not what you think you are and I know it."

https://snipurl.com/1d3tb


From Information Clearing House



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

Baghdad has broken up into a dozen different cities at war with each other. Walls are covered with slogans in black paint saying "Death to Spies". Any Shia caught in a Sunni district will be killed as a spy or because of his religion and vice versa.

https://www.counterpunch.org/patrick03152007.html



Spinned Surge: Don't buy the claims that the military escalation in Iraq is working

The job of neoconservative writers analyzing the Iraq war has largely been to obscure objective analysis and provide talking points for war supporters.

https://snipurl.com/1d3t5



Hakim insists on Iraqi say in U.S. operations

One of Iraq's most powerful Shia leaders, Abdel Aziz Hakim, demanded the government to have a say in security operations being conducted by U.S. forces.

https://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=2654&sectionid=3510202


From Information Clearing House



Give Us Some Real Political Leaders

"I am ashamed to say that I am or even was an Iraqi politician after all the damage to our country that we caused. It is entirely our fault and there is no question about that."

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17321.htm



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

Blogger and Christian Science Monitor columnist Helena Cobban looks back on four years of war in Iraq, beginning with a review of her own warnings and appeals penned in the months before the invasion. Cobban traces an unbroken line from the unheeded warnings of 2003 to the to the unstable and unpredictable realities we see in Iraq, the region, and the international community today.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2952.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Helena+Cobban

The House Appropriations Committee today approved a $124 billion war-spending bill that calls for US troops to leave Iraq by September 2008, but in the Senate, Democrats fell 12 votes short of the 60 needed to call for a troop redeployment within a year.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031607K.shtml

https://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0315-03.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bring+our+troops+home

https://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0315-02.htm



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