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The Media's Iraq Offensive

by Norman Solomon, TomPaine.com

Most of the D.C. press corps has been at pains to portray withdrawal of U.S. troops as unrealistic.

https://ga3.org/ct/Md20pgF1EmEH/

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The New Media Offensive for the Iraq War
https://www.commondreams.org/views06/1116-34.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon

A Way Out Of Iraq
https://ga3.org/ct/Ad20pgF1EmEQ/

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1948057,00.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Informant: rafeswhiterose



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wasfi
https://tinyurl.com/yg4p3n

Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who was elected Senate Majority Leader yesterday, said last night that President Bush still has not grasped the urgent need to change course in Iraq. Reid vowed to press quickly for phased troop withdrawals, a more international approach to Iraq's problems, and a rebuilding of the depleted US military.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111506K.shtml

Jason Leopold reports that the Senate voted Tuesday in favor of keeping open a federal agency that monitored taxpayer-funded reconstruction efforts in Iraq, a month after the Republican majority in both houses of Congress quietly passed legislation signed into law by President Bush to close down the agency.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111506J.shtml

https://www.brusselstribunal.org/WayOut.htm


Informant: Jennifer Van Bergen

From ufpj-news

Larry Johnson writes that one critical dilemma we confront in Iraq is the burden of our status as the Superpower. "All people in the region - Sunnis, Shia, Kurds, and Persians - assume that we have a secret plan that we are pursuing unilaterally. The majority of these folks cannot accept that the sectarian violence unleashed in Iraq is a consequence of US incompetence. They assume that the rising sectarian violence is something we want because we are a Superpower. By virtue of our status as a Superpower it is inconceivable that we would allow such violence unless it suited our 'hidden' purposes."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111506D.shtml

Truthout's UK Correspondent Chris Floyd writes that in a season already notable for the official demonization of British Muslims, the new assault twisted the screws even tighter. It is obvious that Blair has been badly stung by his American partner's rejection at the polls, which makes his own fanatical devotion to Bush and the bloodsoaked folly in Iraq look even more absurd. His frenzied waving of the terror flag is, in part, Blair's panicked response to the political diminishment of the Washington regime that has been a mainstay of his own power.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111506A.shtml