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As Senate Democrats seek votes on capping troop numbers and funding for Iraq, they may use the pending bill on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission as a vehicle, setting up a replay of the debate over funding for troops that this week derailed their leadership-backed non-binding resolution on Bush's "surge" proposal.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020707L.shtml



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A secret air war is being waged in Iraq -- often in and around that country's population centers -- about which we can find out little. The U.S. military keeps information on the munitions expended in its air efforts under tight wraps, refusing to offer details on the scale of use and so minimizing the importance of air power in Iraq. But expert opinion holds that the forms of aerial assault being employed in that country, though hardly covered in our media, may account for most of the U.S. and coalition-attributed Iraqi civilian deaths there since the 2003 invasion. While some aspects of the air war remain a total mystery, Air Force officials do acknowledge that U.S. military and coalition aircraft dropped at least 111,000 pounds of bombs on targets in Iraq in 2006.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2894.shtml

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America's Secret Air War in Iraq
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Attleboro Sun Chronicle

02/07/07

Democratic critics of the Iraq war seized the offensive at both ends of the Capitol on Tuesday, disclosing plans for a symbolic rejection by the House of President Bush’s decision to deploy additional troops and filing legislation in the Senate to require withdrawal of U.S. military personnel. ‘We’re going to stand by our soldiers, but we’re not going to stand by a failed policy that exposes more of our soldiers to death and suffering,’ said Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois …

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The former US occupation chief in Iraq defended Tuesday the way he haphazardly doled out billions of dollars in Iraqi funds after the US invasion, as Congressional Democrats began a two-year effort to scrutinize fraud, waste and abuse under the Bush administration.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607T.shtml



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If we feel we need to clear Sadr City to bring stability, we will do that. Are there restrictions that will not allow us to do that? Right now there are not," said Heckman, who works with an army division that has responsibility for the area.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2849790&page=2


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