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"Good lord, if even Henry Kissinger now says that military victory in Iraq is impossible, pretty soon George W. Bush really will be left with just Laura and Barney on his side," writes Eugene Robinson.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112206E.shtml



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

Iraq's Reality Bandwagon
https://ga3.org/ct/9720pgF18myR/

Washington's Iraq Chimeras
https://ga3.org/ct/o120pgF18myT/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

The United Nations said Wednesday that 3,709 Iraqi civilians were killed in October, the highest monthly toll since the March 2003 US invasion and another sign of the severity of Iraq's sectarian bloodbath.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112206Z.shtml

Independent Institute

by Ivan Eland

11/21/06

General John Batiste, a retired Army major general who was a division commander in Iraq and called for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation, called the Democrats' proposal 'terribly naive.' Among other initiatives, Batiste argues that the United States has to make new efforts to secure Iraq's borders, weaken or eliminate the Iraqi militias, step up training of the country's security forces, reduce Iraqi unemployment, and solicit more cooperation from tribal leaders. To do all of these things, Batiste recommends increasing the number of U.S. forces in Iraq. General Anthony Zinni, one of Abizaid's predecessors as Middle East commander and another critic of administration policy, as well as Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), agree that more U.S. troops should be sent. But if the Democratic plan is naive, this proposal is just plain crazy...

https://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1854


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

"We were up in Tikrit and went to a hospital, and it was guarded with guns and security to the point they were pushing weapons into women's faces," Wolf said. "I saw we can't be successful if we're going into an operating room with pistols and weapons."

https://tinyurl.com/y7y9mw


From Information Clearing House



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

A new poll in Iraq makes it more stark than ever: the Iraqi people want the U.S. to exit their country. And most Iraqis now approve of attacks on U.S. forces, even though 94% express disapproval of al-Qaeda.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15697.htm

How our news is sanitized to prevent the destruction and suffering created by the U.S. occupation of Iraq from entering our reality.

Channel 4 Investigates

- Warning -

This video contains images that should only be viewed by a mature audience.

Iraq: The Hidden Story shows the footage used by TV news broadcasts, and compares it with the devastatingly powerful uncensored footage of the aftermath of the carnage that is becoming a part of the fabric of life in Iraq.

Video - Click to play
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13420.htm