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You Are Invited To A Screening Join film director Robert Greenwald for the official Washington, D.C. premiere of "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers," a new documentary exposing the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision-makers who allow it.

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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Now Playing in United States

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by T. Christian Miller, TomPaine.com

How corporate contractors wasted billions and lost lives in Iraq—and got away with it.
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https://arcticbeacon.com/9-Sept-2006.html


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news

Iraqis are not primitive people who need American colonial tutelage to resolve their problems.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14942.htm

In spite of a sharp increase in Sunni-Shiite violence, however, attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces are still the primary source of bloodshed in Iraq, the report found. It was the latest in a series of recent grim assessments of conditions in Iraq.

https://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15494904.htm


From Information Clearing House

The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western al-Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the US military can do to improve the political and social situation there.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206N.shtml

Dahr Jamail quotes one of the emails he's received from Baghdad: "Although I have perfect job satisfaction as a full professor with an MRCP, FRCP, and two more degrees from London and France, things are so unhappy here in Baghdad. There is no quality of life at all. There are no services; we are loaded with garbage as it is not collected more than once every so many weeks. Garbage collectors are also afraid of being killed. We have almost no electricity, no fuel, bad water supply and what is more, you could get killed whether you are Shi'ite or Sunni if you fall into the wrong hands!"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206E.shtml

“The majority of war coverage in the study heavily emphasised the soldier’s experiences, of the war while downplaying the effects of the invasion on the Iraqi people,” said Lindner. “

https://www.psu.edu/ur/2006/embedreporting.html


From Information Clearing House

The Pentagon's fondness for secrecy along with partisan agendas in Baghdad often lead to contortions with death tolls and other details.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14919.htm



Marine colonel's Iraq report fuels US gloom

Iraq's biggest province has suffered a total breakdown in law and order in which al-Qaida has emerged as the dominant political force, according to descriptions of a classified US military intelligence review reported today.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1870023,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By Elias Khoury

I stood before the ruins, and the tears flowed. No, it was before that scene that I stood, when the people carried the coffins walking over the rubble with the dust of death blanketing them. I couldn't feel the tears collecting at the edges of my eyes, burning them, before they fell on my cheeks. The dust covered us under the burning sun, the sweat trickling out of our pores and spreading over our bodies. I didn't realise I was crying when I did. I had never experienced weeping that came out of the whole body, mixing tears and sweat.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14930.htm