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by Ray McGovern, TomPaine.com

Bush and Cheney have decided they don't need intelligence to re-invade Iraq.
https://ga3.org/ct/np20pgF1Zm8X/



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by Antonia Juhasz, TomPaine.com

As Iraq's quasi-government prepares its new oil law, the multinationals hover.

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A panel of retired generals told a United States Senate committee today that sending 21,500 additional troops to Iraq will do little to solve the underlying political problems in the country. "A fool's errand," was the judgment of General Barry R. McCaffrey, who commanded troops in the first Gulf War. He said other countries had concluded that the effort in Iraq was not succeeding, noting that "our allies are leaving us and will be gone by summer."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011907O.shtml



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AntiWar.Com
by William S. Lind

01/18/07

One way to look at the situation in Iraq is to try to identify variables, elements that could change. Without change, the war is likely to end with troops having to fight their way out, if they can. The military situation in Iraq is not a variable. All that can change is the speed of our defeat. Some actions might slow it, although the time for such actions, such as adopting an ‘ink blot’ strategy instead of ‘capture or kill,’ passed long ago. Other actions could speed our defeat, an attack on Iran chief among them...

https://www.antiwar.com/lind/?articleid=10346


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Reason
by David Weigel

‘The people put us in power because they want an end to this war,’ Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich says. Kucinich is frustrated, and understandably so; He ran for president in 2004 on a crystal-clear anti-war platform, and was laughed off the stage by the city’s pundit class. He watched the Democrats wrestle Congress from Republicans in large part because of that war’s unpopularity. Two months later the White House is sending more troops to Iraq, he’s running for president on an anti-war platform, and he’s being laughed off the stage by pundits. ‘It’s almost as if the November elections never happened,’ Kucinich says. ‘The default position of the Democratic Party is to stay in Iraq. You win the election and then you take the war off the table? You promise not to defund the war, which you are constitutional [sic] empowered to do? I fundamentally reject that, and I will do everything in my power to stop this war.’ How much power does Kucinich have? Better question: Who actually has the power to contest the troop surge when Congress gets its next funding request in February?

https://www.reason.com/news/show/118030.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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As President Bush adds to the US military presence in Iraq, NOW asks: are we asking too much of our soldiers, many of whom are on their second and third tours of duty?

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807U.shtml



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Patrick Cockburn

He is a strange figure to be targeted as the number one enemy of the US in Iraq. Four years ago, few had heard of the Shia nationalist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr inside or outside Iraq. Even somebody as suspicious as Saddam Hussain did not think he would play any role in the coming crisis.

https://tinyurl.com/yzg935



Iraq cracks down on Mahdi Army

UNDER pressure from the US to show progress in the face of mounting carnage, the Iraqi Government has announced a crackdown against the country's most powerful Shiite militia, with several dozen senior members arrested in recent weeks.

https://tinyurl.com/yvelmn


From Information Clearing House



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The resolution, sponsored by Senators. Hagel, Joseph Biden, D-Del., Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, is the latest effort congressional opponents of Bush's war plan are using to persuade the president to change course on America's war in Iraq.

https://tinyurl.com/yt7ng4

Full Text of Bipartisan Resolution Opposing Iraq War Escalation [pdf]
https://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2007/Iraqresolution.011707.pdf


From Information Clearing House



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Video

Shocking clip from a French documentary exposing how governments and corporations in the west knowingly aided and abetted Saddam's most ruthless crimes.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16217.htm



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