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Mother Jones
by Raed Jarrar

07/17/06

The ongoing civil conflict in Iraq is one of the major issues being considered in the debate over future U.S. military and political steps in Iraq. A growing number of analysts argue that U.S. military forces must stay in Iraq to prevent a full-scale sectarian civil war between Sunni and Shia Arabs in Iraq. But evidence exists that the roots of the Iraqi civil conflict is political rather than sectarian, and that the best solution is finding a way to bring the troops home...

https://tinyurl.com/gcwqf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

In Iraq, lives differ in value - and so do deaths. In this disparity lies an important reason why the United States has botched this war.

https://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/07/16/ed.col.iraqideaths.0716.p1.php?section=opinion


From Information Clearing House

U.S. war commanders think some level of American forces will be needed in Iraq until 2016 and those forces will receive continued support from the vast majority of Iraqis.

https://washingtontimes.com/national/20060717-124948-7563r.htm



Retired soldier concludes: "We are pawns" in Iraq
https://www.denverpost.com/style/ci_4037566


From Information Clearing House

https://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/38995/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Congress demands that the Pentagon release documents that could show U.S. forces kidnapped family members of terror suspects.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13990.htm

In a press conference on the steps of the Cannon House Office Building, members of the "Out of Iraq" Congressional Caucus expressed their support for the "Troops Home Fast."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406K.shtml

"I returned to Baghdad on Monday after a break of several months, during which I too was guilty of glazing over every time I read another story of Iraqi violence," reports James Hider. "But two nights on the telephone, listening to my lost and frightened Iraqi staff facing death at any moment, persuaded me that Baghdad is now verging on total collapse."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071406B.shtml

by Ruth Rosen, TomDispatch.com

The U.S. invasion of Iraq has unleashed a wave of sexual terrorism aimed at Iraqi women.

https://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/14/iraqs_hidden_victims.php