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Charnel House

Will we destroy the city to liberate it? How many doors will be kicked in? How many buildings will be reduced to rubble? How many innocent people will be dragged off to interrogation-centers and filthy prisons? How many tens of thousands of people will be killed?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15408.htm

By Phil Rockstroh

History reveals: What a nation inflicts upon the world -- its own people will, sooner or later, inflict upon each other. There is no need to warily scan the horizon line for its arrival, because we're already living in the midst of the angst and emptiness we have wrought. Ergo, when dreams mean nothing -- when words and images are rendered meaningless -- our lives reflect these dismal states.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15401.htm

https://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1025-02.htm

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US Troops in Iraq Using Whistle Blower Protection Laws to Inform Congress of what is Really Happening in Iraq

Troops Revolting

https://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Soldiers_in_Revolt_218_activeduty_troops_1025.html
https://tinyurl.com/yde5cj


Informant: ranger116



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

More than 100 US service members have signed a rare appeal urging Congress to support the "prompt withdrawal" of all American troops and bases from Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102506B.shtml

Overhead costs have consumed more than half the budget of some reconstruction projects in Iraq, leaving far less money than expected to provide the oil, water and electricity needed to improve the lives of Iraqis. More money was being spent on housing and feeding employees, completing paperwork, and providing security than on actual construction.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102506N.shtml

The Pentagon wants a democratic Iraq - a model to the region - but until Iraq has a genuine unity government that its own forces respect and are willing to fight for, it seems likely that the American military will continue to shoulder most of the burden.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102506K.shtml

George Packer writes: "The President's Iraq war is lost. Plan A - a unified and democratic Iraq that will be a model in the region - is no longer achievable. The civil war for which the administration will not consider new responses is already at hand."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102506J.shtml

Demands for an urgent Commons debate on pulling British troops out of Iraq were stepped up last night at Westminster after an opinion poll found that 62 per cent of voters support a withdrawal before the country has been made stable.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15390.htm

Video

Watch his haunting observational film that explodes the myth around the claims that the Iraqis are preparing to take control of their own country.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15389.htm