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Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have fled their homeland are likely to seek refugee status in the United States, putting intense pressure on the Bush administration to re-examine a policy that authorizes only 500 Iraqis to be resettled here next year. The official US policy has been that the refugee situation is temporary and that most of the estimated 1.5 million who have fled to Jordan, Syria, and elsewhere will eventually return to Iraq. But US and international officials now acknowledge that the instability in Iraq has made it too dangerous for many refugees, especially Iraqi Christians, to return any time soon.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106T.shtml

Niall Ferguson writes: "Last week saw the publication of a masterpiece of persuasion. But whom will it persuade? And with what sticks and carrots? Most commentators have interpreted the report of the Iraq Study Group as a well-crafted admission of defeat.... Rather, the report's aim is to convince legislators that withdrawal from Iraq - no matter how much their constituents may yearn for it - is not an option."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106S.shtml



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

By Patrick Cockburn

Manipulation of facts was often very crude. As an example of the systematic distortion, the Iraq Study Group revealed last week that on one day last July US officials reported 93 attacks or significant acts of violence. In reality, it added, "a careful review of the reports ... brought to light 1,100 acts of violence".

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Informant: ranger116

Americans are in agreement over one thing: their Army's intervention in Iraq is a terrible failure. Even Kissinger admits today that "a military victory is no longer possible." Just before the publication of the ISG report, Sara Daniel laid out the six scenarios that have been proposed to extricate the US from the quagmire.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106G.shtml

"The fact is, for most Iraqis, there is little hope left," writes Dahr Jamail, "though polls show that over 70 percent of them still want all occupation forces out of their country. I've long since abandoned asking myself the question: How much worse can it get in Iraq? My Iraqi friends and colleagues tell me that one of the more popular sayings in Baghdad nowadays is, 'Today is better than tomorrow.'"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106F.shtml



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"Indeed, everybody seems to understand that if you want to help amend the disaster in Iraq, the No. 1 rule is that you can't acknowledge it's a disaster in Bush's presence," writes Jonathan Chait. "Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes, the court stenographer of the Bush administration, recently reported that this was a key factor in the hiring of Defense Secretary Robert Gates."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106C.shtml