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Informant: mletwin2001

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Tennessean
by Saritha Prabhu

01/23/07

If you’re like me, you were a little tired of hearing the words ‘justice’ and ‘accountability’ in the aftermath of a dictator’s execution. Countless commentaries have opined — and rightly so — that justice had been served, that a dictator had been held accountable for his crimes against humanity. But you found yourself asking: Whither justice, whither accountability for those who had started the Iraq war monstrosity? As we approach the fourth anniversary of the war, there is in one some commentary-fatigue. After all, how many times can you trot out the same tired, old facts: that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, that he wasn’t a threat to the U.S., that he could have been contained, that the rationale for this war has been shifting like the desert sands of the Middle East? When you look at all that has happened, and all that has been said about the war, you see a situation that is surreal in some ways...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Democrats took the first step toward a wartime repudiation of President Bush on Wednesday, convening a Senate committee to endorse legislation declaring that the deployment of additional troops to Iraq is "not in the national interest."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012407C.shtml

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Senate panel says no to “surge”

Malaysia Star [Malaysia]

01/24/07

A key U.S. Senate committee brushed aside U.S. President George W. Bush’s plea to give his new war strategy a chance and passed a resolution on Wednesday opposing the plan to send more troops to Iraq. The 12-9 vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drew less Republican support than expected, given growing doubts in Congress about the wisdom of Bush’s decision to add 21,500 troops in Baghdad and Anbar province. Only one Republican, resolution co-author Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, voted for it, after accusing the Bush administration of playing ‘ping-pong’ with American lives. The measure now goes to the Senate floor for a vote expected next week. But the panel’s chairman Sen. Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said it may be rewritten to attract more Republicans who have soured on the Iraq war...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Lieutenant General David Petraeus, the Army general who would carry out President Bush's new war plan, urged a skeptical Congress and American public Tuesday to be patient, but acknowledged "the situation in Iraq is dire."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012307S.shtml

Cash for honours is a trifle when set against Iraq. But our leaders can get away with anything if the economy holds up.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1996485,00.html


From Information Clearing House

With his presidential hopes tied to an administration whose Iraq policy he supports but cannot control, John McCain for the first time blamed Vice President Cheney for what McCain calls the "witch's brew" of a "terribly mishandled" war in which U.S. forces are on the verge of defeat.

https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0107/2390.html


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President Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq evoked increasing Republican opposition as a Democratic-led Senate panel prepared tough questioning for the man who would carry out the plan as the new war commander.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6365051,00.html



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Opposition to President George W. Bush's plan to increase troop strength in Iraq broadened on Capitol Hill on Monday as a new bipartisan group of four senators announced their disagreement with the strategy.

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

A U.N. envoy said on Tuesday Iraq was sliding "into the abyss of sectarianism" and urged Iraqi political and religious leaders to halt the violence after two car bombs in a Baghdad market killed 88 people.

https://tinyurl.com/3xpz9p


From Information Clearing House

https://www.commondreams.org/views07/0123-32.htm



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