World-News

By NICOLA NASSER

Gradually but emphatically the facts of the U.S. policy of first igniting the sectarian divide in Iraq then playing the emerging sectarian protagonists against each other are unfolding by the day to reveal the context as well as the real goals of the American strategy in the occupied country.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17209.htm

https://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0228-02.htm



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

https://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0228-01.htm



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

https://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0228-05.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

Walter Cronkite weighs in on the situation in Iraq stating: "We should have gotten out a long time ago. This is a mistake, this entire war there, it's a disaster. And the earlier we get out, the better. It's a terrible disaster. Look at the loss of lives of our young Americans there and those who have been maimed for life, for what purpose? No purpose we can define."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022807B.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+Cronkite

by Sarah Olson, TomPaine.com

U.S. enemies in Iraq already know how the war is going, so why won't the military let our troops speak their minds in public?

https://ga3.org/ct/8d20pgF1Fmon/

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Silencing Soldiers

I was one of two journalists subpoenaed to testify in Lt. Watada’s court-martial. I objected on the grounds that members of the military must be free to speak with journalists without fear of retribution or censure.

https://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/02/28/silencing_soldiers.php


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarah+Olson

Stop them!

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

02/26/07

What is going on in America? The Bush administration’s own National Intelligence Estimate says the situation is so bad in Iraq that the term ‘civil war’ is inadequate to describe it. A government inspector confirms what we already knew: that serious doubts about Iraq’s putative weapons of mass destruction and connections to al-Qaeda were shunted aside in favor of neoconservative wishful thinking...

https://www.fff.org/comment/com0702j.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Does Cheney "Validate" al-Qaeda?

Robert Parry writes, "Captured al-Qaeda documents reveal that Osama bin Laden's principal goal in the 9/11 attacks was to lure the United States into a clumsy counterattack in the Middle East that would alienate Muslims, help al-Qaeda recruit more jihadists and bog down the American military in a no-win war."

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



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=weapons+of+mass+destruction
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry

The better part of valor

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

02/28/07

No matter how the Democrats try to slice it, the question is: will they continue to fund a war that the American people do not support, and want ended ASAP? So far, unfortunately, the answer seems to be yes. We keep hearing that this war can’t be won militarily, that what’s needed is a political settlement: but that settlement will have to be forged in Washington, not Iraq. Our war-crazed commander in chief continues to escalate the struggle — killing Iraqis in the name of ‘liberating’ them — and all talk by the majority Democratic Congress of ending the war is just idle chatter as long as they insist on voting to fund it. We are in for some very dramatic times...

https://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10598


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin

House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn't cut off money for US troops in Iraq while requiring President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022807K.shtml