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Comparing "Vietnamization" to "Iraqification," Judith Coburn writes: "One of the great, failed, unspeakably cynical, blood-drenched policies of the Vietnam era, whose carnage I witnessed as a reporter in Cambodia and Vietnam, was being dusted off for our latest disaster of an imperial war. Some kind of brutal regression was upon us. It was the return of the repressed or reverse evolution."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080306D.shtml

Britain's outgoing ambassador to Iraq has advised his government that the country is more likely headed to "low intensity civil war" and sectarian partition than to a stable democracy.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080306K.shtml

Col. Michael Steele, whose heroics were portrayed in the movie "Black Hawk Down," is under investigation for allegedly encouraging his men to go on a killing spree.

https://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=4423503


From Information Clearing House

A U.S. soldier testified Wednesday that four of his colleagues accused of murdering three Iraqis during a raid threatened to kill him if he told anyone about the shooting deaths.

https://tinyurl.com/e8pn7


From Information Clearing House

President Bush came and sat by the side of Sergeant Brian Fountaine, a 24-year-old tank commander from Dorchester, a gung-ho soldier who had lobbied to be deployed a second time. The president chatted about the sergeant's beloved Red Sox, but made no reference to the war, the soldier said. If the topic had come up, the president might not have liked what Fountaine had on his mind.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206G.shtml

"If 50,000 troops, including several thousand Americans, cannot end the violence in Baghdad, why are we not committing a significantly larger force?" Reed said.

https://tinyurl.com/z5wk2


From Information Clearing House

A former US soldier accused of raping and murdering an Iraqi girl compared killing people in Iraq to "squashing an ant," in an interview with a reporter about a month before the attack.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14292.htm

"'Fiasco' has shot to #1 on Amazon.com. It provides the hard objective facts, woven within an air-tight narrative, of America's involvement in Iraq, which in places seems to mirror Vietnam, and in others a wholly new geo-political malaise of faith-based militarism. No one in America today can afford to be without this book; no one making public policy can ignore the facts he documents, or the picture he paints of a nation that has failed to understand the consequences of its decisions," writes Stirling Newberry.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073106M.shtml

International Society for Individual Liberty
by Jarret Wollstein

07/27/06

Just days before President Bush declared that the U.S. is making 'good progress' in Iraq and our plan to bring democracy to that country is 'advancing well,' the U.S. embassy in Baghdad (Iraq's capital) sent a long memo to the Secretary of State depicting an Iraq mired in chaos, despair and hopelessness. As the following quotes from that memo, released by the Washington Post on 6-18-06, makes it clear, that there is little doubt that Iraq is now far worse off under U.S. occupation than it was under Saddam Hussein's tyranny...

https://www.isil.org/towards-liberty/iraq-in-chaos.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp