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Upon receiving the news that they would be extended for at least four more months, a seasoned NCO on his second tour of duty with the 172nd Stryker Brigade in Iraq said, "I'd like to punch [Rumsfeld] in the gut. He treats us like we're not human. He acts like he's not destroying families."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091006G.shtml

Shortly after the invasion of Afghanistan Donald Rumsfeld told his team to start planning for war in Iraq, but not to bother planning for a long stay, a high-ranking military official said in an interview.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090906A.shtml

The 25,000 civilian contractors in Iraq are an occupying army unto themselves. Some may have engaged in torture -- and, by evident design, they can’t be prosecuted for their crimes.

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From Information Clearing House

More than a year before the invasion of Iraq the CIA devised a plan, codenamed Anabasis, to use Iraqi exile fighters to seize an air base and declare a revolt against Saddam Hussein in the hope that his response would create a pretext for war, according to a book published tomorrow.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14883.htm

We took an interesting phone call today from an official at the Baghdad morgue. We get these calls every day – a daily tally of the violence. But this one was particularly sobering.

https://blogs.abcnews.com/fromthefrontlines/2006/09/what_dropoff_au.html


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. military has lost control over the volatile al-Anbar province, Iraqi police and residents say. The area to the west of Baghdad includes Fallujah, Ramadi and other towns that have seen the worst of military occupation, and the strongest resistance.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14854.htm

"No one understands why we are here and what our mission is," says Sergeant Kahlor. "This war is lost. We aren't helping these people. We are just dying and getting injured." "We are here for each other to make it home," said Sergeant Poetsch. "That's what our motto is. After Potocki went down we sat the platoon down and talked about that even if you don't believe in what is going on, at least we fight for each other. That is how we are going with it now."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090506G.shtml