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Richard L. Armitage - who served as Deputy Secretary of State from 2001-2005 is advocating a phased withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102006C.shtml

The American Conservative
by Andrew J. Bacevich

Step by bloody step the Iraq War moves toward its denouement. Having set this tragedy in motion, the United States today finds itself consigned to the role of bystander, the world's only superpower having long since lost control of events. As things unravel, the president -- the most powerful man in the world -- is demonstrably powerless to affect the outcome. Meanwhile, American soldiers fight on, even as it becomes increasingly apparent that the Army only recently thought all but invincible will not win this war. For the Bush White House, September 2006 will be remembered as the month when the roof caved in... (for publication 10/23/06)

https://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_10_23/article2.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

US Reviews Baghdad Strategy as Troop Deaths Mount

The US military said on Thursday it was reviewing strategy in Baghdad, where US reinforcements have failed to halt spiraling violence, and expressed grave concern about mounting troop deaths.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102006O.shtml



Tables Turned for the GOP Over Iraq Issue

Four months ago, the White House offered a set of clear political directions to Republicans heading into the midterm elections: embrace the war in Iraq as critical to the anti-terrorism fight and belittle Democrats as advocates of a "cut and run" policy of weakness.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102006P.shtml

"American troops are still fighting and dying in Iraq and will be for months to come as we try to extricate ourselves from this mess, but it's over," Jay Bookman writes. "What we're doing in Iraq cannot be sustained, not militarily and not politically, and after the election a lot of people are going to start saying so."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102006N.shtml

Robert Dreyfuss writes: "From Washington, London, Baghdad, and other capitals come rumors that Maliki's government will soon be overthrown by a nationalist general or colonel or that he will resign in favor of an emergency 'government of national salvation.' A coup d'état in Iraq would put a period - or rather an exclamation point - at the end of the Bush administration's bungled experiment with democracy there."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102006M.shtml

Kevin Tillman writes, "Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can't be called a civil war even though it is."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102006K.shtml

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Pat Tillman's Brother Blasts Iraq War
https://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/frontpage/30126.php


Informant: NHNE



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

https://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/bringthemhome/email3.html


Informant: John Pietaro

From ufpj-news

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Cindy Sheehan Please help spread the word!

I received this email and believe strongly that we all must do everything we can to "Bring Them Home"!

Please forward as widely as possible to bring our Son's, Daughters, Brother's, Sister's, Husband's and Wife's home safely as soon as the Democrats take control!

Please Sign This Petition Supporting a Resolution in Congress to End Funding of the Iraq War Cindy Sheehan We have endorsed a Resolution in Congress to cut the funds for the Iraq War. We hope you will join us in signing the linked Petition from Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) supporting HR 4232: https://pdamerica.org/petition/mcgovern-petition.php We have been working with PDA organizing support for HR 4232 since Rep. McGovern introduced this important bill in November of 2005. Congress has appropriated more than $300 billion for U.S. military operations in Iraq. Simply stated in monetary terms, we are spending $8 billion per month in Iraq with no end in sight. That's $2 billion per week, or $267 million per day, or $11 million per hour. Small wonder that 61% of the American people are opposed to current U.S. policy in Iraq. H.R. 4232 would end all funding for the deployment of U.S. troops in Iraq. Thank you for your time and consideration. I hope you will sign the petition and please share it with your friends! Please consider adding a link to your page https://pdamerica.org/tools/issues/petition-webmaster.php

In peace,


Informant: ranger116



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

This has been the longest time I have been away from blogging. There were several reasons for my disappearance the major one being the fact that every time I felt the urge to write about Iraq, about the situation, I'd be filled with a certain hopelessness that can't be put into words and that I suspect other Iraqis feel also.

https://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#116120448528625171


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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=655+000

Following hints U.S. troops may remain in Iraq for years, the United States is reportedly building a massive military base at Arbil, in Kurdish northern Iraq.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15344.htm

A PROMINENT former diplomat has labelled the war in Iraq a "disaster" and flayed the Howard Government for undermining Australian democracy.

https://tinyurl.com/yh4mqq


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