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by Jim Lobe, TomPaine.com

New leaks suggest that even George Bush and Nouri al-Maliki may soon have to concede that "stay the course" is no longer an option.

https://ga3.org/ct/3720pgF1_XhM/

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Endgame in Iraq
https://www.commondreams.org/views06/1024-26.htm

https://tinyurl.com/ya3mza


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Odessa Amercian

10/18/06

Eight soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were ordered Wednesday to be court-martialed on murder charges stemming from their service in Iraq, and two could get the death penalty for allegedly raping a 14-year-old and killing her and her family. The Fort Campbell soldiers facing the death penalty are Sgt. Paul E. Cortez and Pfc. Jesse V. Spielman. Both are accused of raping Abeer Qassim al-Janabi in her family's home in Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, then killing the girl, her parents and younger sister...

https://tinyurl.com/u77os


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

America must leave Iraq without preconditions and hope that its neighbours, hated Syria and Iran, can clear up the mess. This advice comes not from some anti-war coalition but from the Iraq study group under the former Republican secretary of state, James Baker.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1924736,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The scientific community is in agreement over the statistical methods used to collect the data and the validity of the conclusions drawn by the researchers conducting the study.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15336.htm



Study of Iraqi Dead Shocking, But Sound Science

The Statistical Assessment Service a non-profit, non-partisan media research organization - finds the study estimating 650,000 excess Iraqi casualties since American forces entered the country to be methodologically sound.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15335.htm



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

https://www.washtimes.com/world/20061019-120324-9846r.htm


Informant: Kev Hall

https://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20060627_occupation_iraq_hearts_minds/


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Former US secretary of state James Baker was visibly shocked when he last visited Iraq, and said the country was in a "helluva mess." Mr. Baker is leading a review of the situation in Iraq by a bipartisan US committee of experts, and is expected to recommend a change in strategy for rebuilding Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101806M.shtml

Dennis Ross

Staying the course is a prescription for avoiding reality. But simply setting a deadline and withdrawing might also constitute a form of denial -- denial of what will happen in the region after a precipitous pullout.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15321.htm