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US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has rejected a bipartisan panel's recommendation that the Bush administration engage Syria and Iran in efforts to stabilize Iraq, the Washington Post reported on Friday.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506C.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

12/13/06

When John Kerry came back from fighting in Vietnam, he famously inquired, How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a mistake? Regarding the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group (ISG), a lot of people would like to know, How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a bipartisan compromise? Just when you think Washington has hit the rock bottom of cynicism, it finds even lower rungs to descend...

https://www.fff.org/comment/com0612d.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+Study+Group

Independent [UK]

12/15/06

The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act. In the testimony revealed today Mr Ross, 40, who helped negotiate several UN security resolutions on Iraq, makes it clear that Mr Blair must have known Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction...

https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2076137.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Such a large request would mark a rapid escalation in the cost of the Iraq war at a time when public support is plummeting and Bush is looking for new answers to stem violence that threatens to spin out of control.

https://tinyurl.com/w6mfd



McCain Calls For More U.S. Troops In Iraq

Sen. John McCain said today that America should deploy 15,000 to 30,000 more troops to Iraq.

https://tinyurl.com/y7cj3e


From Information Clearing House



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

By Al Jazeera

More than 90 per cent of Iraqis believe the country is worse off now than before the war in 2003, according to new research obtained by Al Jazeera. - Nearly 66 per cent of respondents to the Iraqi survey thought violence would decrease if US forces were to leave.

https://snipurl.com/14yjm

https://www.traprockpeace.org/war_crimes_iraq_101006.pdf


Charles Jenks
Chair of Advisory Board
Traprock Peace Center
103 Keets Road
Deerfield, MA 01342
https://www.traprockpeace.org

From ufpj-news

Chris Floyd reports that "just nine months after an American raid that killed 11 civilians, including five children under the age of five, another ground and air assault on suspected insurgents in the area left behind a pile of corpses, including at least two children. As with the earlier incident, Friday's attack has produced conflicting stories of what really happened, but the end result is clear: a multitude of grieving, angry Iraqis further embittered against the American occupation."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121406A.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Floyd

The Bloodbath We Created
https://ga3.org/ct/Pd20pgF1CmUl/

MSNBC

12/14/06

The nation's top uniformed leaders are recommending that the United States change its main military mission in Iraq from combating insurgents to supporting Iraqi troops and hunting terrorists, said sources familiar with the White House's ongoing Iraq policy review. President Bush and Vice President Cheney met with the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday at the Pentagon for more than an hour, and the president engaged his top military advisers on different options...

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16195925/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp