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"The shortest route to ending the Iraq war (and preventing additional wars) is almost certainly through Congress," writes David Swanson. "Influencing the White House directly is unimaginable, and stopping the war through the courts unlikely. Clearly, Congress is the way to go. But what specifically can Congress do? The question is not just whether Congress can cut off the money, but whether the Bush administration can find enough money in other places illegally to continue a war that has never in any sense been legal."

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2933.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Swanson

Apart from dodging bombs and bullets in their schools and neighborhoods, children in Iraq are suffering from worryingly high levels of malnourishment, according to specialists. Poverty and insecurity are said to be the main causes of the children's deteriorating diets. Despite efforts by NGOs and the Iraqi government, violence and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people are making it very difficult for monthly food rations to reach those families that need them most. According to the United Nations Children's Agency (UNICEF), about one in 10 children under five in Iraq are underweight and one in five are short for their age. This means that some 4.5 million children in the country are under-nourished.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2934.shtml

"If you had to put a date on when the Iraq war did in the Bush administration," says Frank Rich,"it would be late summer 2005. That's when the bungled federal response to Hurricane Katrina re-enacted the White House bungling of the war, this time with Americans as the principal victims. Now this pattern is repeating itself: a searing re-enactment of the Iraq war's lethal mismanagement is playing out on the home front, again with potentially grave political consequences."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030407D.shtml

https://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/hintergrund/?em_cnt=1086589&em_cnt_page=1
https://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/hintergrund/?em_cnt=1086589&em_cnt_page=2

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5861/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

https://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/19199


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news

Baghdad's mayor lashed out at the United States yesterday – for spending huge sums on projects to collect rubbish and plant trees while his devastated war-torn city struggles without electricity.

https://snipurl.com/1by6i


From Information Clearing House

Three young women accused of joining the Iraqi insurgency movement and engaging in "terrorism" have been sentenced to death, provoking protest from rights organisations fearing that this could be the start of more executions of women in post-Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

https://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36797


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail

President Bush's planned escalation of U.S. forces in Iraq will require as many as 28,500 troops, Pentagon officials told a Senate committee Thursday.

https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-03-01-surge_x.htm


From Information Clearing House



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