World-News

By David Swanson
https://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/18388


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Jason Leopold reports: "A long-awaited report on the veracity of pre-war Iraq intelligence has found that a secretive policy shop exaggerated the Iraqi threat, providing the White House with cherry-picked information about links between Iraq and al Qaeda. The shop, operating out of the Pentagon, was set up by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Its goal was to lay the groundwork for a pre-emptive military strike against Iraq."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020907J.shtml



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Stephen Colbert on the lack of debate on the Iraq War: it looks like the only way we can bring democracy there is to silence it here.

https://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/08/colbert-slams-holyjoegop-for-silencing-iraq-debate/

Source: https://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/02/09/silencing_democracy.php



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CounterPunch
by Mike Ferner

02/08/07

From Alaska to Washington, D.C. yesterday, peace activists escalated their tactics and occupied Congressional offices, demanding elected officials vote against George Bush’s request of $93,000,000,000 to extend the war. The Occupation Project, organized by Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV), kicked off at noon, Eastern Time when four people were arrested holding a funeral service in the Chicago office of Democratic U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and four more people were arrested in the Chicago office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), reading names of Iraqis and U.S. soldiers. At the same the same hour, 10 people sat down and were arrested in the Washington, D.C. office of Senator John McCain (R-AZ) …. On the opening day of the six-week project, a total of eight local congressional offices were occupied across the country...

https://www.counterpunch.org/ferner02062007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Asia Times
by Pepe Escobar

02/08/07

The battle for Baghdad has officially begun. It’s a double bill involving suppression of Sunni militants and defanging Sadr City, the vast Shi’ite enclave that staunchly backs cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army. This counterinsurgency against classic guerrilla tactics with popular support is doomed. Inevitably, Iran will be blamed...

https://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB09Ak01.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Salon
by Michael Scherer and Mark Benjamin

02/09/07

Over three days next week, the floor of the House of Representatives will become a wind tunnel of oratory, with most of the 435 members appearing before C-SPAN cameras to declare their support or opposition to President Bush’s war plan for Iraq. But beyond the swirling rhetoric, the debate over a non-binding resolution to oppose the surge of troops represents an important first step in a long-range strategy by congressional Democrats to force a conclusion to the Iraq war. The effort has two important goals, say Democrats. On the one hand, they hope to put political pressure on vulnerable House Republicans so that more of them break away from the White House on Iraq policy. At the same time, they plan to use the power of the purse to restrict the president’s ability to continue the war...

https://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/02/09/iraq_debate/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

A US Marine squad leader congratulated soldiers "for getting away with murder" after an Iraqi civilian was bound and shot dead at point-blank range, a military court has heard.

https://tinyurl.com/ytlmwv


From Information Clearing House

By Javad Zarif
Iranian ambassador to the United Nations

The American administration can also contribute to ending the current nightmare — and preventing future ones — by recognizing that occupation and the threat or use of force are not merely impermissible under international law, but indeed imprudent in purely political calculations of national interest.

https://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/440/1/

https://www.commondreams.org/views07/0208-21.htm



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