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Army Reservist James E. Dean had already served 18 months in Afghanistan when he was notified three weeks ago that he would be deployed to Iraq later this month. The prospect of returning to war sent Dean into a spiral of depression and on Christmas, Dean barricaded himself inside his father's home with several weapons, threatening to kill himself. After a 14-hour standoff with authorities, Dean was killed yesterday by a police officer after he aimed a gun at another officer.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122706L.shtml



Asked to Serve Again, a Soldier Goes Down Fighting

The sniper fired. It was a clean shot, if there is such a thing. And down for good fell another US soldier. His name was Sergeant James Dean. Only Dean was killed at the front door of his childhood home, the day after Christmas and three weeks before his redeployment, shot by a sniper representing the government for whom he had already risked his life in Afghanistan.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060307G.shtml



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MSNBC

12/26/06

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signed orders that will send the 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade to Kuwait shortly after the new year, senior defense officials said Tuesday. The decision to send the unit was first reported earlier this month. The soldiers, who are based at Fort Bragg, N.C., are expected to be deployed to Iraq early next year, and the move could be part of a short-term surge of troops to the battlefront to quell the ongoing violence...

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16361118/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

What matters is the opinion of Iraqis. If there is remaining doubt, the question of withdrawal should be submitted to a referendum, conducted under international supervision to minimize coercion by the occupying forces and their Iraqi clients.

https://www.middle-east-online.com/english/opinion/?id=18938


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+Study+Group
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Soldier tried to report abuses but was rebuffed.
https://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A41687


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https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2518729,00.html



U.S. Military graduates calls War in Iraq illegal and criminal

America stands shamed in the eyes of the world thanks to the Bush administration’s crime spree. And, as a partial result, the Democrats scored a resounding triumph in an election where only 40.4% of eligible Americans cast ballots. 40.4%! So much for urgency.

https://tinyurl.com/ynyddh


From Information Clearing House



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A fugitive former Iraqi minister, with dual U.S. citizenship, flew to Jordan in an American plane after escaping from a Baghdad jail earlier this month, Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakheet said on Tuesday.

https://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L26386901


From Information Clearing House

Incoming congressional leaders have publicly stated their support for increasing troop levels, and Democrats have no intention of pursuing any serious withdrawal plan in Congress. They will not withhold war funding. The war will plod on, and Democrats will call for more of the same.

https://tinyurl.com/yaxxur



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Basra City Council has withdrawn co-operation from UK forces in southern Iraq after the police's serious crimes unit was disbanded by troops. More than 1,000 troops blew up a police station run by the unit, which has been blamed for robberies and death squads.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6209249.stm


From Information Clearing House

By Juan Cole

Myth number one is that the United States "can still win" in Iraq. Of course, the truth of this statement, frequently still made by William Kristol and other Neoconservatives, depends on what "winning" means. But if it means the establishment of a stable, pro-American, anti-Iranian government with an effective and even-handed army and police force in the near or even medium term, then the assertion is frankly ridiculous.

https://tinyurl.com/ydkn83



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BY W. PATRICK LANG and RAY MCGOVERN

Robert Gates' report to the White House on his discussions in Iraq this past week is likely to provide the missing ingredient for the troop ''surge'' into Iraq favored by the ''decider'' team of Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush.

https://tinyurl.com/yzg62p



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