World-News

President Bush began 2006 assuring the country that he had a “strategy for victory in Iraq.” He ended the year closeted with his war cabinet on his ranch trying to devise a new strategy, because the existing one had collapsed.

https://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt1_2_7_1.htm


From Information Clearing House

The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq to focus on ways of bringing greater security, rather than training Iraqi forces.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6223923.stm


From Information Clearing House

Dean Baker writes: "There has been no shortage of deceptions surrounding the prosecution of the Iraq war, beginning with the original justification - Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Unfortunately, supporters of the war continue to use deception to advance their agenda. The latest lie is that Congress doesn't have the ability to end the war, because if they cut off funding they would jeopardize the safety of our troops."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010207A.shtml

MSNBC

01/01/07

Incoming House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes says he'd rather figure out how to stabilize Iraq and bring the troops home than get bogged down investigating what went wrong. Despite that pledge, he does plan to revisit one bit of history: What he sees as the government's improper classification of a letter he wrote during the congressional debate on the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq...

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16390653/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Ending the occupation will reduce violence, immediately save more than $100 billion and respect the wishes of the American people. Why is Washington, DC ignoring the obvious?

https://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/122906ZEESE.html


From Information Clearing House

In an interview with Reuters, Al-Mutlaq is quoted as saying a family of four was killed in an adjacent building during the raid, including two children, as well as two of his security guards.

https://tinyurl.com/y2bpuf


From Information Clearing House

Could you make sure that you visit this site and let your friends and colleagues know about it.

If we can get 2,000 visitors to it in the next 24 hours, we can make the first page of YouTube's Most Viewed Music Video category. (We've got 5,700+ subscribers so we can do it.)

Thanks!

https://www.brasscheck.com/videos/iraq/iraqwar19.html

The song is "Peace" and it's one of the most intelligent and soulful anti-war songs I've heard in a very long time.

It deserves a wide listening - and you can count on it never being played on Clear Channel (the monopoly that controls what popular music is played on US radio.)

If you're a YouTube member, please give it a high rating. That helps too.

And feel free to watch the video more than. Once. I bet you'll want to...
https://www.brasscheck.com/videos/iraq/iraqwar19.html

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Informant: Michael Wells Mandeville

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"It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.": Leo Buscaglia, author and university professor (1924- 1998)

Part One
https://rwor.org/a/070/crossiraq-en.html

Part Two
https://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3520&Itemid=220


Informant: C. Clark Kissinger

From ufpj-news

Marine Colin Joseph Wolfe left behind his girlfriend of one month, 19-year-old Kira Wolf, when he shipped out to Iraq in July. He was killed seven weeks later by a roadside bomb. This is their love story.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010107D.shtml

From the Riverbend blogspot: "A day in the life of the average Iraqi has been reduced to identifying corpses, avoiding car bombs and attempting to keep track of which family members have been detained, which ones have been exiled and which ones have been abducted. 2006 has been, decidedly, the worst year yet. No - really."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/123106G.shtml



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