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"The militias from all sides are in the universities. Classes are not happening because of the chaos, and colleagues are fleeing if they can," said Professor Saad Jawad, a lecturer in political science at Baghdad University.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329593191-103550,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Congress has set a 2007 termination date for the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction at the behest of the Bush administration, removing the source of a series of audit reports that have emboldened critics of the president's war polices.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20061003-104001-2200r.htm


From Information Clearing House

Dahr Jamail writes: "There are approximately 100,000-125,000 American civilian contractors working in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their jobs range from providing security to desk work to interrogating prisoners to driving convoy trucks to clearing unexploded ordnance.... The US Department of Labor listed 428 civilian contractor deaths and 3,963 wounded in Iraq - none of which are ever counted in the official casualty counts."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100506J.shtml

The International Organization for Migration says nearly 190,000 people in the 15 central and southern provinces of Iraq have been displaced by violence since the bombing in late February in Samarra.

https://voanews.com/english/2006-10-03-voa36.cfm



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

If you really want to gauge the toll of the Iraq War on the American public, you have to read the local newspapers.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article15217.htm

In the second month of a security crackdown in the capital, U.S. military casualties appear to be rising, even as deaths among Iraqi security forces have fallen, according to U.S. military sources and analysts.

https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003288027_iraq04.html


From Information Clearing House

https://www.counterpunch.org/solomon10022006.html


From Information Clearing House

Ivan Eland writes: "The bellwether of the cautious establishment press, Bob Woodward, has finally unloaded both barrels on the Bush administration's Iraq policy in his new book 'State of Denial.'" Eland continues: "The Bush administration's main advisor during the war has been Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, according to Woodward's book, apparently has convinced the Bush White House that any troop withdrawals from Iraq will start a wave of public pressure to pull out all US forces from Iraq."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100306P.shtml



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

by Paul McLeary, CJR Daily

Iraq and the U.S. are stifling the very thing they say they are building in Iraq—free speech and a free press.

https://ga3.org/ct/pd20pgF1TmjX/