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Independent [UK]

02/01/07

Iraq is experiencing the biggest exodus in the Middle East since Palestinians were forced to flee in 1948 upon the creation of Israel. ‘We were forced to leave our house six months ago and since then we have moved more than eight times,’ said Abu Mustafa, a 56-year-old man from Baghdad. ‘Sectarian violence has now even reached the displacement camps but we are tired of running away. Sometimes I have asked myself if it is not better to die than to live like a Bedouin all my life.’ Iraqis are on the run inside and outside the country. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees said 50,000 Iraqis a month are abandoning their homes...

https://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2204094.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2877.shtml



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

The barbaric lynching of Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, was a choreographed event, a carefully staged U.S. sponsored PSYOP, with a view to triggering social divisions and fomenting sectarian violence within Iraq and the broader Middle East.

https://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/230/52/



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

As President Bush took the podium to deliver his State of the Union address last week, there were five American families receiving news that has become all too common: their loved ones had been killed in Iraq. But in this case, the slain were neither "civilians," as the news reports proclaimed, nor were they US soldiers. They were highly trained mercenaries deployed to Iraq by a secretive private military company based in North Carolina - Blackwater USA.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013107C.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercenaries
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater

VoteVets.org has a powerful new TV ad calling for senators to support our troops and get them out of Iraq.

https://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/01/31/vote_vets.php
https://www.votevets.org/

One author thinks he knows how Thomas Paine would support the troops.
https://ga3.org/ct/Ud20pgF1cX0T/

Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter

01/31/07

In his State of the Union Address last Tuesday, President Bush warned that if the U.S. fails in Iraq, al Qaeda will gain a safe haven from which to launch attacks against America. It is an argument that the President, other members of the administration, and neoconservative hawks have been using for years. ... Despite such scare mongering, it is highly improbable that al Qaeda could use Iraq as the kind of safe haven it enjoyed in Afghanistan. There, the organization had the protection of an entrenched, friendly government, which it will not have in Iraq. Al Qaeda also had a much larger force in Afghanistan -- an estimated 18,000 fighters. Even the U.S. government concedes that there are fewer than 2,000 al Qaeda fighters in Iraq, and the Iraq Study Group put the figure at only 1,300. Indeed, foreign fighters make up a relatively small component of the Sunni insurgency against the U.S. and British occupation forces. It strains credulity to imagine 1,300 fighters (and foreigners at that) dominating a country of 26 million people...

https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=7353


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee began laying the constitutional groundwork today for an effort to block President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq and place new limits on the conduct of the war there, perhaps forcing a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. Said Senator Arlen Specter, "I would respectfully suggest to the president that he is not the sole decider," Mr. Specter said. "The decider is a joint and shared responsibility."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013107K.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arlen+Specter
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=decider

Senate Democrats oppose the war in Iraq, they just don't plan on stopping it. Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), has decided, however, to challenge what he calls the "timidity" of Democratic leaders. He said he's going to introduce legislation cutting off funding for the Iraq War, and he may do it as early as this week.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013007T.shtml



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