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https://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt231.html

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Nine Paradoxes of a Lost War

"In 'The Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency,'" writes Michael Schwartz, "the nine paradoxes the experts lay out are eye-catching, to say the least, and so make vivid reading; but they are more than so many titillating puzzles of counterinsurgency warfare. Each of them contains an implied criticism of American strategy in Iraq. Seen in this light, they become an instructive lesson from insiders in why the American presence in that country has been such a disaster, and why this (or any other) new counterinsurgency strategy has little chance of ameliorating it."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101606D.shtml

A British coroner ruled Friday that US troops unlawfully killed a British television journalist during the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101506D.shtml

Mary Riddell writes "History will forgive the war on Iraq. Or so Tony Blair told the US Congress in July 2003, as the first cold shadows fell on the invasion. The Prime Minister also warned of 'many further struggles ahead'. He cannot have imagined that these would include being gunned down by the head of the British army. By calling for a pull-out from Iraq, General Sir Richard Dannatt has reversed the view of the French wartime leader, Georges Clemenceau, that 'war is too serious a matter to entrust to military men'."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101506A.shtml

The authority of Tony Blair was left battered last night as he attempted to play down a rift with the head of the British Army over his unprecedented warning that the presence of foreign troops was "exacerbating" the security situation in Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101406G.shtml

Thousands of Iraqis are fleeing the country every day, in what the UN's refugee agency describes as a steady, silent exodus.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101406A.shtml

Der ehrliche General
https://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23749/1.html

Tony Blair has received a public warning from the country's most senior military commander that the British presence in Iraq is threatening disaster there and in the UK.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15288.htm



UK Government stunned by Army chief's Iraq blast

General Sir Richard Dannatt said troops should come home within two years - flatly contradicting the Prime Minister's policy that the military will stay "as long as it takes". In unprecedented comments he warned that the Army could 'break' if British soldiers are kept too long in Iraq.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15289.htm

At least 44 U.S. troops have been killed so far in October. At the current pace, the month would be the deadliest for U.S. forces since January 2005.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2559501


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