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Two GOP congressmen say most Republicans on the Hill now believe the Iraq war was a mistake, and "more than half the Republican caucus" believes the way in which the US entered the Afghanistan war was also a mistake.

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/gop-iraq-war-horrible-mistake/



US protesters mark Iraq invasion

Thousands of anti-war protesters have marched through the US capital to call for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, on the seventh anniversary of the US-led invasion.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/03/201032102119638717.html


From Information Clearing House

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Seven years of war in Iraq

CounterPunch
by Andy Worthington

03/22/10

Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, but by now, it seems, the American people have become used to living in a state of perpetual war, even though that war was based on torture and lies. Protestors rallied across the country on Saturday, but the anti-war impetus of the Bush years has not been regained. … Some activists were still burnt out from campaigning for Barack Obama, others thought the new President had waved a magic wand and miraculously cured all America’s ills, while others, to the right of common sense and decency, were beginning to mobilize in opposition to a President who, to be frank, should have been more of a disappointment to those who thought that ‘hope’ and ‘change’ might mean something than to those who supported the Bush administration’s view of the world...

http://counterpunch.org/worthington03222010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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