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"It is estimated that 1.3 million individuals are displaced inside Iraq, nearly five percent of the country's total population," said a UNAMI statement.

https://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1958776,00.html


From Information Clearing House

https://www.commondreams.org/views06/0628-20.htm

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The Occupation of Iraqi Hearts and Minds

By Nir Rosen

Imagine how many Iraqi homes have been destroyed. How many families have been traumatized. How many men have disappeared into American military vehicles in the night. How many crimes have been committed against the Iraqi people every single day in the course of the normal operations of the occupation.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13848.htm

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The Occupation of Iraqi Hearts and Minds
https://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20060627_occupation_iraq_hearts_minds/


Informant: Lew Rockwell

"The Iraqi reconciliation plan unveiled by Prime Minister Al-Maliki on Sunday had the potential to mark a turning point in the war. But thanks to US interference, instead of a road map for peace, the plan that emerged looks more like a bump in Iraq's torturous path to continued violence and suffering," write Medea Benjamin and Raed Jarrar.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062806G.shtml

Dahr Jamail writes, "This 'army' has brought nothing but chaos, suffering and death to every city, town, village or institution it has visited, and while sectarian and ethnic politics are played out in the so-called Iraqi government, the agenda of the Bush administration rolls forward unabated."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062806A.shtml

Baltimore Sun
by Trudy Rubin

06/27/06

The debate in the Senate last week over when to exit Iraq was disgraceful. Americans deserve an honest airing of the most important foreign policy issue facing the country. But this congressional circus had little to do with policy and everything to do with election-year politics. Democrats looked hapless, and many Republicans were flat out dishonest. The Pinocchio prize for devious discourse went to Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania...

https://tinyurl.com/fu47p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Mother Jones
by Col. Daniel Smith, USA (Ret.)

06/29/06

In October 2002 the White House deceived the Congress and the public, inducing Congress -- in the administration's interpretation -- to abandon its constitutional responsibilities in matters of war-making. This 'fool me once' has inflicted on the world 39 months of bloody occupation and war in Iraq. Now the House has once again, in effect, abandoned its role in any future decision about the need for and the wisdom of initiating war in the name of the people they represent -- creating a vacuum the administration will eagerly fill...

https://tinyurl.com/mbe4u


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Reuters

06/27/06

The number of displaced people in Iraq has swelled by 150,000 since the bombing of a Shiite shrine in February pushed the country to the brink of civil war, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday. The U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) put the number of displaced higher than the 130,386 estimate of registered internal refugees given by the Ministry of Displacement and Migration on Monday. 'It is estimated that 1.3 million individuals are displaced inside Iraq, nearly 5 percent of the country's total population,' said a UNAMI statement...

https://tinyurl.com/lhqa7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Recently founded in Oakland, Calif., Courage to Resist is one of several organizations around the country trying to stop the Iraq war by focusing on those ordered to wage it.

https://tinyurl.com/ov2xo


From Information Clearing House



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