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by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com

One provocative view: Bush can win the conflict, and the rest of us will be the losers.

https://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/20/iraqs_uncomfortable_realities.php

Helicopters flew over the Iraqi town of Ramadi and warplanes could be heard overhead as US troops hunted down insurgents in the rebel stronghold on Monday, a Reuters witness said. Shops were shuttered and most residents stayed home, fearing a US offensive on the scale of the one that inflicted heavy destruction and loss of life in nearby Falluja in 2004.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061906T.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ramadi

To accomplish its goals, the “Out of Iraq” Caucus will work with other Congressional Caucuses and national organizations to hold hearings, press conferences and town hall meeting to educate the American people and pressure the Administration to conclude the war in Iraq.

https://tinyurl.com/p5w2y


From Information Clearing House

Helicopters flew over the Iraqi town of Ramadi and warplanes could be heard overhead.

https://newsnow.co.uk/newsfeed/?search=Ramadi&x=0&y=0&name=



SOS Ramadi

The first heavy attack on Ramadi by the American and Iraqi forces was launched last Friday, the 9th of June. Ramadi is the capital of the Anbar province and is situated about 100 km west of Baghdad, on the Euphrates.

https://www.brusselstribunal.org/SosRamadi.htm


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ramadi

Democrats plan to offer a resolution in the US Senate on Tuesday seeking a timetable for a phased withdrawal from Iraq, California Senator Dianne Feinstein said on Sunday. Recent polls show a majority of Americans favor such a course.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061906B.shtml

"Here we go again," writes Dahr Jamail, "only this time with even more troops, raiding even more homes, manning more checkpoints, and of course more death squads operating - with backup support from American soldiers, and of course their air strikes."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061906J.shtml

MSNBC

06/18/06

Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops set up outposts Sunday in southern parts of Ramadi as part of an operation to establish Iraqi army bases in the country's largest Sunni Arab city and wrest it away from months of insurgent control. U.S. commanders stressed that the operation was not a large-scale assault on the city but rather an 'isolation' tactic to prevent insurgents from receiving supplies or reinforcements from outside. Arab television networks and some Western outlets have reported on an impending attack on the city...

https://msnbc.msn.com/id/13398011/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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