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A Timetable Isn't an Exit Strategy

"The Iraqi government has not failed to develop adequate police and military forces of its own because it lacks the incentive. It has failed to do so because it is weak and divided, because its people are frightened and because the strongest leaders in the country are the men who control sectarian militias." Editors at the New York Times write, "A phased withdrawal by itself would simply leave the American soldiers who remain behind in graver danger, and hasten what looks like an inevitable descent into civil war."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080606D.shtml

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No Exit Strategy

By Ray McGovern

Ret. Gen. John Keane of the “Military Senior Adviser Panel” takes a different tack. He recommends that 40,000 additional U.S. troops be sent to secure Baghdad. And Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., too, continues to press for sending more troops to Iraq as the only way to “salvage” the situation.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15607.htm

The failure of the Iraqis to halt the slide into chaos in Baghdad undercuts the central premise of the American project here: that Iraqi forces can be trained and equipped to secure their own country, allowing the Americans to go home.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080606B.shtml

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4906/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Helton said the soldiers fired and one detainee "fell flat down and the second one, wherever he got shot, it was kind of like what you'd see in a movie where he spun around and landed on his back." One was spitting up blood, he said.

https://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/latimes318.html


From Information Clearing House

"This weekend marks the first anniversary of my nephew's death in Iraq. August 6, 2005, is the date Marine Lance Cpl. Chase Comley was killed instantly by a vehicle-borne IED. My brother, Chase's father, received the news just after midnight, early on the 7th. 'We regret to inform you.' These are the words that shifted the earth's plates," writes Missy Comley Beattie.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080506E.shtml

"The most horrifying testimony of the day was when we met with 'Dr. Nada,' an Iraqi doctor who stayed in Baghdad to help her people during the sanctions and the invasion," writes Cindy Sheehan. "Dr. Nada told us about seven harrowing days she spent working in an emergency room in Baghdad between April 2 and April 9 in 2003. She said that over 100 casualties PER HOUR were coming through her hospital alone and that many died because they could not be helped in time."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080406J.shtml

Senator John Kerry, during a speech on the floor of the United States Senate, said: "Mr. President, this is more than an important period, this may well be the moment that decides the security of the Middle East itself, and it's time the Administration was candid about the situation and got to work on rescuing what's salvageable in Iraq. With at least 2,578 Americans killed, over 19,000 wounded, and no end in sight, we simply cannot sit idly by as more of our kids die for a policy that isn't working. And we cannot be silent while this Administration continues to deny reality and repeat the same mistakes."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080406Z.shtml

The head of the U.S. Central Command on Thursday said sectarian violence in Baghdad was as bad as he has ever seen and could lead to a civil war.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060803/ts_nm/iraq_civilwar_abizaid_dc


From Information Clearing House



British diplomat warns of Iraq civil war

A confidential report from Britain’s outgoing ambassador to Iraq warned the country is sliding toward civil war and is likely to divide eventually along ethnic lines, according to a news report Thursday.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14344.htm