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Across the nation, small towns are quietly bearing a disproportionate burden of war. Nearly half of the more than 3,100 US military casualties in Iraq have come from towns like McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where fewer than 25,000 people live. One in five hailed from hometowns of fewer than 5,000. Many of the hometowns of the war dead aren't just small, they're poor.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022007T.shtml

The security forces separated the men from the women and then ordered Jabouri’s wife to give them a suitcase filled with jewellery and £20,000 in cash.

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1400661.ece


From Information Clearing House

The project

President Bush wanted the 'right' people in charge of the reconstruction of Iraq. Unfortunately for the country, that meant loyalty to the president rather than expertise - including a 24-year-old estate agent put in charge of the stock exchange, writes Rajiv Chandrasekaran in the second exclusive extract from his new book.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2017023,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Both houses of Congress have now gone on record opposing Bush's dispatch of 21,500 more troops to Iraq. Yet neither house is willing to end U.S. involvement by cutting off funding for the war.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17134.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cutting+off+funding

What would this new law mean for Iraq? - Concerning Iraq's sovereignty. Iraq will not be capable of controlling the levels -- the limits of production, which means that Iraq cannot be a part of OPEC anymore.

https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/1523250


From Information Clearing House



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

https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/sheehan-m1.html



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

E.J. Dionne writes: "Two things are now abundantly clear about the future of US policy toward Iraq. First, majorities in both houses of Congress have lost faith in President Bush's approach to the war. Second, the president will do all he can to resist changing his strategy by trying to split his critics into ineffectual factions."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022007E.shtml

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

02/18/07

What’s the point of a non-binding resolution that the president has already said would not affect his decisions? How do you send a message to a person who isn’t listening? The resolution affirming support for the troops and opposition to the surge won’t really do anything, notwithstanding the heated debate about whether to pass it. It won’t stop the war, save a life, or slow the surge. Nancy Pelosi says the president can’t completely ignore ‘the voice of the American people,’ but my bet is he’ll try. The reason the resolution matters is not because of its impact on the president, but on Congress; not because it will goad the president into action, but because it will force Congress to face its own fears...

https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252669,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Susan+Estrich

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

02/19/07

As President Bush continues his Nixonesque policy of ‘exiting’ Iraq by escalation and intimidation, both Republican and Democratic politicians are also imitating the Vietnam-era rhetoric of blaming the citizens of the chaotic country and their neighbors for the mess. In fact, the politicians are blaming everyone but themselves for this monumental policy failure...

https://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1915


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland

CNN

02/19/07

The 2002 authorization for use of force in Iraq is among the arguments the war’s supporters use to condemn congressional critics of the conflict. If Democrats have their way, it may be replaced. Democratic senators are talking Monday about revising the authorization Congress passed more than four years ago. They would do so by working to pass a new resolution putting additional restrictions on military action in Iraq...

https://tinyurl.com/399qpw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp