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Finally acknowledging the momentous crisis of Iraqi refugees in the Middle East, the US government has announced it will accept 7,000 Iraqi refugees in the coming year. There are an estimated 750,000 Iraqis living in Jordan alone, with more than one million believed to be living in Syria. Electronic Iraq Amman correspondent Noah Merrill critiques the US pledge and offers a sobering glimpse at a rapidly growing crisis. "In the absence of a real commitment to an internationally supported, truly inclusive political process," Merrill writes, "the situation in Iraq will continue to get worse and Iraqis will continue to hemorrhage out of their homeland. We know where this path leads: a recent statement by the International Organization for Migration predicts that one million more Iraqis will be displaced in the coming year if the trend continues."

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2910.shtml

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The Free Liberal
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

02/16/07

Never mind that the American people showed their dissatisfaction with the war in the fall elections. Congress lacks the political will to stand up to the administration and assert its power over the purse strings, and too many vested interests in the defense sector benefit from the supplemental bills. A cynic might even suggest that many Democrats want the war to drag on, despite their supposed opposition, to damage the president politically and benefit them in 2008. But whatever the reason, the money for war keeps flowing. Defense Department officials will ask Congress for the next supplemental bill in coming weeks. The amount requested is likely to be at least $140 billion. If we stay in Iraq beyond 2007 — and the administration has made it clear that we will — the bill to American taxpayers easily could top one trillion dollars in another year or two...

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National Review
by Jonah Goldberg

02/16/07

The current spectacle in Congress has made it clear that the Democrats don’t believe that the war in Iraq is America’s war. They think it’s Bush’s vanity project turned albatross, but they won’t take responsibility for their convictions. They fawned on Gen. David Petraeus like schoolgirls, confirming him as commander of U.S. forces in Iraq almost instantly, but they denounce the escalation he helped design and is tasked with implementing. And on the floor of the House this week, they bared their teeth to Bush while bragging about how their resolution is toothless. It was always a bit of a myth that partisanship ended at the water’s edge. But Democrats have debunked, exposed and parodied that myth. Of course, they claim that the president started it by running foreign policy as a partisan enterprise. Fine, there’s obviously some truth there. But when the likes of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Jay Rockefeller whine that they were misled into war, they’re declaring that they never took their responsibilities seriously in the first place...

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Yahoo! News

02/16/07

‘The Sacrifice,’ by award-winning war photographer James Nachtwey, shows U.S. soldiers in Iraq receiving frantic medical treatment in a helicopter and medics working to repair the carnage of war at a field hospital. That chaos is shown beside more tranquil views, such as a returned serviceman with a prosthetic leg holding his surfboard after riding a curl and a one-legged young man chatting with his fiancee during a break from his rehabilitation regimen.v ‘This is one of the costs of this war. The money is the easy part. This, the injuries and the people that are lost, is the real cost,’ Nachtwey said while hanging the exhibit, which opens on Friday at 401 Projects...

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Napa Valley Register

02/18/07

Senate Democrats pledged renewed efforts Sunday to curtail the Iraq war, suggesting they will seek to limit a 2002 measure authorizing President Bush’s use of force against Saddam Hussein. The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the proposal had little chance of succeeding. ‘I think the president would veto it and the veto would be upheld,’ said Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana...

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Lawyers claim the Pentagon will now pay £1.2m compensation after trying to deny Iraq collision.

Watch the video here
https://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2015757,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Peter Beaumont on the reality of everyday life for US soldiers in Baqoubah, in the Iraqi province of Diyala.

https://observer.guardian.co.uk/flash/page/0,,2015024,00.html


From Information Clearing House

"Once again we are proceeding to lay people's lives on a line drawn with faulty information. Once again the fantasies of the 'policy-makers' drive decisions without much link to the realities on the ground".

https://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16346787.htm


From Information Clearing House

By Sen. Russell Feingold

Congress must use its power of the purse to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq. Let's not be intimidated by the misleading rhetoric of the White House and its allies when they try to prevent any discussion of Congress' ending the war. This isn't about "cutting off funds for troops." It's about cutting off funds for the war.

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