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Text Of Secret U.S. Security Adviser’s Iraq Memo

classified secret

Following is the text of a Nov. 8 memorandum prepared for cabinet-level officials by Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, and his aides on the National Security Council. The five-page document, classified secret, was read and transcribed by The New York Times.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15780.htm

Baker To Bush: Game Over
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Why the U.S. study group won't solve anything

The forthcoming report by James Baker's Iraq Study Group has enjoyed the biggest public buildup since the Segway. And it is likely to be just as big of a bust.

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15957154/site/newsweek/



From Information Clearing House

The Iraq Study Group, which wrapped up eight months of deliberations yesterday, has reached a consensus and will call for a major withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, shifting the US role from combat to support and advising, according to a source familiar with the deliberations.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/113006Z.shtml

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Iraq’s violence meets the standard of a civil war and thinks President Bush needs to acknowledge that.

https://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/29/powell-civil-war


From Information Clearing House

Rival Shi'ite and Sunni groups are massing their militias in expectation of major confrontations, Iraqis say.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20061128-115226-2217r.htm


From Information Clearing House

Violence against Iraqi civilians, which is already taking between 60 and 100 lives a day, is likely to rise still further, Major General William Caldwell, the US military spokesman in Baghdad, conceded yesterday.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1959496,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The US military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda's rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military's mission in Anbar province.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906L.shtml



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Bob Herbert writes: "There is something terribly wrong with this juxtaposition of gleeful Americans with fistfuls of dollars storming the department store barricades and the slaughter by the thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, including old people, children and babies. The war was started by the US, but most Americans feel absolutely no sense of personal responsibility for it."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906G.shtml

"I'm tired of nit-picking over how we should bully the Iraqis into becoming better citizens of their own country," former CIA Middle East expert Ray Close wrote in an email. "The long-term effect of blaming Iraqis also could be poisonous," said Juan Cole, a University of Michigan specialist in Middle Eastern issues, who predicted that it will "infuriate the Iraqis and worsen further the future relationship of the two countries."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112906C.shtml