World-News

The agency says an additional 50,000 Iraqis a month are fleeing their homes but remaining within Iraq, which classifies them as "internally displaced" rather than as refugees who have crossed an international border.

https://tinyurl.com/y4oj5r


From Information Clearing House

By Mike Whitney

After 3 and a half years of violence and mayhem we still know as little about the Iraqi resistance as we did in March 2003. This is inexcusable. In addition, there’s been no attempt to engage the representatives of the resistance in political dialogue. How can we possibly reach a political solution without dialogue and negotiation?

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article15488.htm

As Bechtel Goes

Paul Krugman writes: "Bechtel, the giant engineering company, is leaving Iraq. Its mission - to rebuild power, water and sewage plants - wasn't accomplished: Baghdad received less than six hours a day of electricity last month, and much of Iraq's population lives with untreated sewage and without clean water. But Bechtel, having received $2.3 billion of taxpayers' money and having lost the lives of 52 employees, has come to the end of its last government contract."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306M.shtml



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

US President George Bush's plans to invade Iraq have nothing to do eliminating “weapons of mass destruction”, preventing terrorism or ending human rights abuses. An attack on Iraq will be the first phase of a pre-existing strategy to increase US control of the world's oil supplies.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15476.htm

Christian Science Monitor
by John Hughes

11/01/06

In the last days of an election campaign that many will interpret as a referendum on the Iraq war, both the president of the United States and the prime minister of Iraq say they are dissatisfied with the state of things in that violence-beset country. There have been several days of confusion as to whether the White House or the US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad or Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have set 'timetables,' or 'deadlines' or 'benchmarks,' for faster progress to peace and stability...

https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1101/p09s01-cojh.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The number of Iraqi civilians killed by violence may have jumped to another record high in October, data from the Iraqi government indicated on Wednesday. Statistics issued by the Interior Ministry for Iraqis killed in political violence put civilian deaths last month at 1,289, nearly 42 a day and up 18 percent from the 1,089 seen in September, itself a record for this particular series of data.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110106S.shtml

The astounding arrogance that underwrites Bush's smug determination to keep killing and maiming tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of people is no different than that of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Both knew the war was a failure, but determined to "stay the course" for a decade out of a misguided belief in protecting an image of American infallibility that was paired with shameful political motives.

https://tinyurl.com/wdu6v


From Information Clearing House

U.S. officials on the bases paid cash to fly-by-night Iraqi agents to cart away new vehicles and spare parts - along with generators - that had been left behind by Saddam's army. The Iraqis then sold the valuable equipment in Syria and Jordan and paid kickbacks to the U.S. officials.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15457.htm

A recent study published in The Lancet medical journal estimated that 655,000 Iraqi people have been killed as a result of the March 2003 US-UK invasion of Iraq.

https://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=655%2C000

The US military has confirmed Iraq is close to chaos, in a classified briefing prepared just two weeks ago, which gives a stark assessment of the country.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15466.htm