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By Robert Fisk

Our guilt in this sectarian game is obvious. We want to divide our potential enemies.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17230.htm



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US Vice President Dick Cheney told Democrats Thursday to stop "posturing" on Iraq, warning it was an "inconvenient truth" that the bloody conflict was the key front in the war on terror.

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From Information Clearing House



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The more I thought about it, the more I realized that all the reasons for us going into Iraq were false. Weapons of mass destruction were never found, and if they were, so what? I didn't know how many countries were nuclear powers at the time, but I was pretty sure if Iraq did have WMD that the United States had a lot more.

https://www.ivaw.org/node/283


From Information Clearing House

Iraq is nearing partition, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said Friday as violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims raged on in Baghdad.

https://snipurl.com/1bvr2


From Information Clearing House

In a move that has surprised many foreign policy analysts here, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has appointed a prominent neo-conservative hawk and leading champion of the Iraq war to the post of State Department Counselor. Eliot A. Cohen, who teaches military history at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies here and has also served on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board since 2001, will take up the position next month that was left vacant late last year by Rice's long-time confidant and "realist" thinker, Philip Zelikow. A close friend and protege of former Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and advisory board member of the American Enterprise Institute, Cohen most recently led the harsh neo-conservative attack on the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2932.shtml

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Meet Eliot Cohen, Condi's New Deputy

"As Extremist a Neocon and Warmonger as It Gets"
https://www.counterpunch.org/leupp03062007.html


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zelikow
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+Enterprise+Institute
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
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Ira Chernus writes: "The nation seems to be remembering a lesson of the Vietnam War: We can't get security by sending military power abroad. Every time we try to control another country by force of arms, we only end up more troubled and less secure."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030207E.shtml



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https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01426347.htm


Informant: Corey

Mother Jones
by James Ridgeway

03/01/07

The Iraqi oil deal set to go before the country’s parliament next month could spell the end of the country as a nation state, and signals a major Bush victory in the war. The proposed law not only opens the door to the big international oil companies, but offers them lucrative contract deals, and even a place on the national oil board that will run the industry. The Byzantine scheme for dividing up oil revenues on the basis of population is little more than a facade for the biggest rip off of resources since the British barged into Mesopotamia more than a century ago...

https://tinyurl.com/3aml6a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

03/02/07

The Chinese panic is being diagnosed as the ’cause’ of our own apparent meltdown, but this mistakes the symptoms for the underlying disease. The name of our affliction is debt, and that burden has increased by over 30 percent since our venture into empire-building was launched. The Chinese are — or, have been — buying that debt, but the bursting of the Shanghai bubble could soon cut off that supply of income — and then where would we get the money to pay for the biggest military build-up in world history? Bush is demanding $716 billion for his ‘defense’ budget, which, as one news report described it, is ‘greater than the annual gross domestic product of all but 14 countries.’ He’ll get that, and more: the Democrats, for all their ‘antiwar’ pretensions, fault this administration for not having a large enough military...

https://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10610


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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