World-News

About 1,350 bodies were received in December, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the Iraqi government has banned officials from releasing data on casualty rates.

https://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iraq/10096986.html



Iraq's Lost Children

Sectarian warfare is reshaping Iraq in all sorts of malevolent ways day in and day out. But it is also forging the future by poisoning the next generation of Iraqis.

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16610767/site/newsweek/



Iraqis get all-firing foretaste of Bush's final Baghdad gamble

The fighting has seen him trapped with two blind daughters in one room in the city centre since Wednesday morning, without water or electricity and with nothing to eat but beans. Hamed, a 55-year-old retired civil servant, is now growing desperate.

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2546344,00.html



US diluting Iraq surge, general says

The military mastermind of President George W Bush's new troop "surge" strategy for Iraq has hit out at signs that the Pentagon is watering down the proposal for political reasons.

https://tinyurl.com/yapqly



Attack on Sadr will widen war in Iraq

Now he holds the future of Iraq in his hands. He has far more popularity and legitimacy than many of the pro-American Iraqi leaders cowering in the Green Zone. He is seen by millions of Shia in Baghdad and across southern Iraq as their spiritual and national leader.

https://tinyurl.com/yzg935



You owe us, Bush says

"(The) Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude."
https://tinyurl.com/yboq4z


From Information Clearing House



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

by Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D

So if a surge of 20,000 troops will not bring "victory" in Iraq, what are we doing there? Remember that one of the goals of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) is a "permanent military presence" in the region. Despite our claims that we are not "occupiers," most Iraqis see our construction of huge military bases and a huge Embassy there as representing exactly that......

https://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis89.htm



What are we Doing in Iraq?, Part 2

by Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D

A national army, like the U.S. Army, is trained for and tasked with defending our nation against external aggressors. For over a century, posse comitatus laws have prohibited the army from being used in civilian law enforcement. Yet, that is exactly what the U.S. is asking the Iraqi National Army to do. They aren't being trained to resist an invasion from the Syrian Army, for example, but to provide security WITHIN Iraq. That means Sunnis having to kill their fellow Sunnis and Shiites killing fellow Shiites......

https://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis90.htm



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

https://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/14/bush.60.minutes/


Informant: Bob Banner



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

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5582/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

Frank Rich writes: "President Bush always had one asset he could fall back on: the self-confidence of a born salesman. Like Harold Hill in 'The Music Man,' he knew how to roll out a new product, however deceptive or useless, with conviction and stagecraft. What the world saw on Wednesday night was a defeated Willy Loman who looked as broken as his war. His flop sweat was palpable even if you turned down the sound to deflect despair-inducing phrases like 'Prime Minister Maliki has pledged ...' and 'Secretary Rice will leave for the region. ...' Mr. Bush seemed to know his product was snake oil, and his White House handlers did too."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011407D.shtml



Choices Dwindle If Iraq War Plan Fails

If the revamped Iraq war plan fails, it will be time to withdraw most US troops. Or send more in. The United States is seen as having a limited number of options, all grim, if President Bush's "new way forward" hits a wall. The pressure for US disengagement will be immense. Yet a further escalation, however unimaginable now, may not be out of the question.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011407E.shtml



Why Do We Need a National Conference for Media Reform?

"Bush just connected Iraq to 9/11 again, and the media will not tell you it was a lie," says David Swanson. "Bush just gave a list of reasons why this time his escalation of the war will work. A minute later, Bush told us there will still be IED attacks and suicide bombings. The media will not point out that such actions ought really to count as interference."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011407F.shtml



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

On Wednesday, January 10, President George W. Bush announced that he would be sending 21,500 more troops to Iraq as early as Monday. "The escalation of this war is very disappointing," said Mass Communications Specialist Third Class, Jonathan Hutto, 29, a sailor stationed aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. Ironically, as the additional troops begin arriving in Iraq, Hutto and other active duty troops will travel to Washington to present the Appeal for Redress of Grievances from the US Congress to US Representative Dennis Kucinich.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011407B.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=redress
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kucinich

The bipartisan opposition to President Bush's troop-increase plan has proved more intense than his advisers hoped and has left them scrambling to find support, but the White House is banking on the assumption that it can execute its "new way forward" in Iraq before Congress can derail it.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011407Z.shtml



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

https://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=4558
https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_kevin_ze_061231_saddam_killed_in_the.htm


From InfoNature.Org



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executed
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk

https://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2149736.ece


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk

Drawing heavily on the lessons of nearly four deadly years in Iraq, the United States' biggest and deadliest war since Vietnam, the new doctrine challenges accepted practice and tactics long honed by the US military.

https://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/070113095045.xkjhmxy3.html


From Information Clearing House