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The invasion of a sovereign country in March 2003 not only was founded on false pretences. It also created more problems than it has solved.

https://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1772334.ece


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Christian Science Monitor
by Daniel Schorr

09/29/06

"President Bush likes to say he will stay the course in Iraq. The question is: What course? Is it the course that has so far cost some 2,700 American lives, 100 Iraqi lives a day, and an estimated expenditure of $300 billion so far? Is it the course, which, according to a leaked consensus estimate of the US intelligence community, has made Iraq a primary recruitment vehicle for the next generation of violent extremists and weakened the global fight against terrorism? The president has said that Iraq is the central battleground in the war against terrorism. But the intelligence agencies suggest that if this is so, it is only because the war has made it so. Intelligence czar John Negroponte puts it delicately when he says that there have been some notable successes, but that there is still much to be done in the war against terrorism. But the intelligence estimate seems to agree with Osama bin Laden, who said on a videotape released last January that the number of fighters was increasing and Iraq had become 'a point of attraction and recruitment'...

https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0929/p09s02-cods.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Colonel says only pullout will end insurgency
https://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1884383,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The current situation in Iraq is "dire" according to former foreign secretary Jack Straw.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6113248,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The insurgency in Iraq's volatile western Anbar province can be beaten but probably not until after U.S. troops leave the country, the commander of forces in the provincial capital said Friday.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article15154.htm

A meeting of realities

It is a mark of how disastrous the Iraq war was that only now, three years on, our governments are beginning to admit to the chaos they and, of course, the Iraqis are facing.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article15162.htm

Pierre Haski looks at what the US has accomplished in Iraq since its 2003 invasion, while Marc Semo points out that the only bright spot - Iraqi Kurdistan - is also negotiating parlous waters.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906H.shtml

Nach aktuellen Umfragen billigt die Mehrheit der Iraker Angriffe auf US-Truppen und wünscht deren Abzug, al-Qaida und Bin Laden werden von der überwältigenden Mehrheit der Iraker abgelehnt.

https://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23649/1.html

MSNBC

09/28/06

An explosive new book, now just days away from store shelves, is tonight making news before arriving on the market. 'State of Denial' is the work of journalist Bob Woodward, and according to advance publicity materials released to the media, it alleges that attacks by insurgents in Iraq are worse than Americans have been led to believe. It's no secret that the Bush administration has tried to put the best face on the war in Iraq, but Woodward claims it's a deliberate attempt to deceive the American people about the worsening state of the war...

https://msnbc.msn.com/id/15051776/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp