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DEMOCRACY in Iraq is meaningless until an end is brought to the civil war now tearing the country apart.

https://tinyurl.com/yhj98a


From Information Clearing House

The war in Iraq has been a "catastrophic blunder" that has substantially increased the terrorist threat to Australia, one of the nation's most distinguished former diplomats said today.

https://tinyurl.com/yk7qtd


From Information Clearing House

A Marine friend just back from Ramadi said to me, "It didn't get any better while I was there, and it's not going to get better." Virtually everyone in Washington, except the people in the White House, knows that is true for all of Iraq.

https://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061019-104408-1976r


From Information Clearing House

American and Iraqi efforts to improve security in Baghdad have failed to reduce bloodshed in the increasingly violent Iraqi capital, the senior US military spokesman in Iraq acknowledged on Thursday.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15358.htm

One Crime Too Many

By Mike Whitney

In Baghdad, “liberation” has become a permanent state of martial law where one can never be certain if his door will suddenly be kicked in and he will either be shot or dragged off to some remote prison for torture.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15359.htm

Michael Scheuer doubts the Baker Commission will come up with the necessary change in Iraq strategy: "I don't think it can come back and say: 'We lost; we'd do better to leave,'" he explained. Dominique Dhombres applauds the honesty of his bleak prognostications.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101906H.shtml

Foreign Policy Blindness

by Immanuel Wallerstein, TomPaine.com

Defeat in Iraq may force Democrats to rethink America's role in the world—or tragically, it may not.

https://ga3.org/ct/3p20pgF1_XhN/