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The American Prospect
by Terence Samuel

01/26/07

The president’s State of the Union plea to the Congress and the country to give war just one last chance in Iraq was actually a deft performance for a man faced with so few options for wriggling out of the corner he’s boxed himself into. Despite the tandem military and political disasters that have torpedoed his presidency, Bush on this occasion tried to lead by example, doing what he is asking of the rest of us — and, particularly, the people fighting and dying in Iraq — to do: He soldiered on, blindly, wishfully. ‘Every one of us wishes this war were over and won,’ he said in one blazing moment of truth. But wishful thinking aside, the urgent question before Congress is: What course of action — emphasis on action — will most quickly and effectively roll back the president’s state of denial and force an end to the carnage in Iraq, at least where Americans are concerned?

https://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12405


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Yahoo! News

01/28/07

Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq …. The rally on the Mall unfolded peacefully, although about 300 protesters tried to rush the Capitol, running up the grassy lawn to the front of the building. Police on motorcycles tried to stop them, scuffling with some and barricading entrances. … United for Peace and Justice, a coalition group sponsoring the protest, had hoped 100,000 would come. They claimed even more afterward, but police, who no longer give official estimates, said privately the crowd was smaller than 100,000. … Bush reaffirmed his commitment to his planned troop increase in a phone conversation Saturday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The president was in Washington for the weekend. He is often is out of town during big protest days...

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070128/ap_on_re_us/iraq_protest


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jan27

We should say no to the wider use of mercenaries
https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/4500876.html


From Information Clearing House



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Turkey urged the United States not to leave a power vacuum when it exits Iraq nor allow the country to split, saying a divided Iraq would slip into “endless war” involving all of its neighbours.

https://tinyurl.com/234frt



Turkey mulls 'invading' Iraq

Turkey's parliament went into secret session this week to debate sending troops to invade and occupy northern Iraq for security purposes.

https://tinyurl.com/2fv8vp


From Information Clearing House

Tens of thousands of protesters crowded Washington Saturday to demand Congress cut off funds for the Iraq war and stop troop increases ordered by President George W. Bush.

https://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=19321


From Information Clearing House

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200 plus photos of march
https://www.traprockpeace.org/antiwar_march_012707/

From ufpj-news



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When Jonathan Schulze came home from Iraq, he tried to live a normal life. But the war kept that from happening.

https://www.startribune.com/462/story/963363.html


From Information Clearing House

Lina Massufi, a 32-year-old Iraqi laboratory assistant with two children, is a widow - her husband was killed by US troops when he accidentally drove down a closed road in 2003. In the past three months she has seen her house raided and her furniture smashed twelve times. "Every time they raid my house, they break down the door," she told a UN official.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012807E.shtml



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From Information Clearing House

The foreign office has made a last-ditch attempt to stop one of its former senior diplomats from publishing a book claiming that the government knew that Iraq did not represent a significant threat to the West in the run-up to the Iraq war.

https://politics.guardian.co.uk/whitehall/story/0,,2000448,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Roberts Gates, the US defence secretary, has said a Democrat proposal to pass a congressional resolution opposing a planned buildup of US troops in Iraq "emboldens the enemy".

https://tinyurl.com/36p7rc


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