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https://www.commondreams.org/views06/1204-20.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

The White House found itself on the defensive from the second recent leak of an insider's memo on Iraq in a week. The latest, first reported in Sunday's New York Times, showed that Donald H. Rumsfeld called for a "major adjustment" in US tactics on November 6 - the day before an election that cost Republicans the Congress and Rumsfeld his job as defense secretary.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120406M.shtml



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"With Iraq falling apart, it's getting lonely at the top for President Bush. His hawkish neo-con advisers are deserting him. He had to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The Democrats have won control of Congress. US allies are angry at his Iraq policies. And even Henry Kissinger - one of Bush's foreign policy advisers and a key architect of the Vietnam debacle - has decided Iraq is a can't-win situation," says Helen Thomas.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120306G.shtml



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

Army officials destroyed critical evidence that could have determined who shot and killed Pfc. Jesse R. Buryj at an Iraq checkpoint in May 2004, one of several problems with the friendly-fire inquiry that may permanently shroud Buryj's death in mystery.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120306D.shtml

The Iraqi government is in danger of being brought down by the wholesale smuggling of the nation's oil and other forms of corruption that together represent a "second insurgency".

https://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1962245,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The Ministry further threatened to sue journalists who do not modify stories that the ministry deems inaccurate upon receiving a demand to do so.

https://tinyurl.com/y7nq8n


From Information Clearing House

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Iraq was in the grips of a civil war and many people were worse off now than under Saddam Hussein, according to an interview to be broadcast on Monday.

https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N03431252.htm


From Information Clearing House

Residents in the village of al-Lihaib near the town of Garma, said 24 people had been killed and some buildings levelled in the assault.

https://tinyurl.com/smzvl


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