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"The important question is: Can the Iraq Study Group be expected to come up with constructive suggestions for alternative policy on Iraq?" asks Ray McGovern. "The answer is no."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406A.shtml

https://www.meta-info.de/?lid=24517



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

The civil reconstruction of Iraq will cost at least $100 billion, U.S. officials in Baghdad told Iraqi contractors who are vying for some of the work.

https://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061110-114629-4533r


From Information Clearing House

Saddam Finale

By Said K. Aburish

What is good for America in Iraq is not necessarily good for Iraq. Controlling Iraq and using its strategic position, oil and status within the Arab-Muslim worlds is part of America’s plans and the weaker Iraq is through religious and ethnic divisions the easier it is to control.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15593.htm

https://www.consumersforpeace.org/headline_iraq_troop_withdrawal_far_off.html


Informant: Charles Jenks

From ufpj-news

No Exit Strategy
https://ga3.org/ct/8120pgF1Imhx/

A New York Times editorial warns: "The Democrats will not be able to savor their victory for long. Americans are waiting to hear if they have any good ideas for how to get out of Iraq without creating even wider chaos and terrorism. Criticizing President Bush's gross mismanagement of the war was a winning electoral strategy. But criticism will not extricate the United States from this mess, nor will it persuade voters that the Democrats are ready to take back the White House."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111206D.shtml

Iraq's top anti-corruption watchdog, a high-profile judge whose efforts have been hailed by Americans as one of the few bright spots in the country, is himself the target of a corruption probe, officials said Saturday.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111206B.shtml

A commission of experts appointed by President George W Bush will advise him to abandon his dream of cementing a new democratic system in Iraq and instead tackle the security crisis so that the withdrawal of American troops can begin.

https://tinyurl.com/ur9a4


From Information Clearing House

Sectarian revenge killings in Baghdad and the mixed Sunni-Shiite regions surrounding the capital have reached civil war proportions. Morgues across a wide sweep of the center of the country are full as Shiite militiamen and death squads range through the region killing Sunnis.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111206Y.shtml