Iraqi official: 'It's civil war'
A senior official in the Iraqi government has for the first time admitted the country is in a state of civil war.
http://www.itv.com/news/world_467275.html
Iraq three years on: don't look away
And don't believe all that our leaders tell us about democracy. Three years after the toppling of Saddam, Iraq is a bloody mess. Yesterday 70 people were killed in an attack on a Baghdad mosque. Patrick Cockburn reports on three years of broken promises in a blighted land.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article356466.ece
Time Running Out for Rebuilding of Iraq
The ambitions of 2003, when President Bush spoke of making Iraq's infrastructure ``the best in the region,'' have given way to the shortfalls of 2006, in electricity and water supply, sanitation, health facilities and oil production.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5743067,00.html
Wisconsin voters want U.S. troops out of Iraq
On Tuesday, folks in 34 cities and towns across Wisconsin cast their votes on referendums calling for immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. The referendums passed in 24 out of 32 communities.
http://progressive.org/mag_wx040506
'The war is illegal. I can't pay for a government killing machine'
A man has vowed to go to prison rather than pay taxes which he believes would fund a "blatantly illegal war" in Iraq.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article356034.ece
From Information Clearing House
US veterans against War in Iraq
Garett Reppenhagen's experience in Iraq - where he served for a year - has changed his mind on the occupation and has led him to leave the US Army.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12653.htm
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Iraq War Makes World Less Safe
Ann Wright, former Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Mongolia for the US Foreign Service, feels as long as the US remains in Iraq, the violence there will continue. Wright said the US needs to leave as soon as possible and leave it up to the Iraqi people to decide if they want an international presence and, if so, whom.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040806B.shtml
http://www.itv.com/news/world_467275.html
Iraq three years on: don't look away
And don't believe all that our leaders tell us about democracy. Three years after the toppling of Saddam, Iraq is a bloody mess. Yesterday 70 people were killed in an attack on a Baghdad mosque. Patrick Cockburn reports on three years of broken promises in a blighted land.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article356466.ece
Time Running Out for Rebuilding of Iraq
The ambitions of 2003, when President Bush spoke of making Iraq's infrastructure ``the best in the region,'' have given way to the shortfalls of 2006, in electricity and water supply, sanitation, health facilities and oil production.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5743067,00.html
Wisconsin voters want U.S. troops out of Iraq
On Tuesday, folks in 34 cities and towns across Wisconsin cast their votes on referendums calling for immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. The referendums passed in 24 out of 32 communities.
http://progressive.org/mag_wx040506
'The war is illegal. I can't pay for a government killing machine'
A man has vowed to go to prison rather than pay taxes which he believes would fund a "blatantly illegal war" in Iraq.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article356034.ece
From Information Clearing House
US veterans against War in Iraq
Garett Reppenhagen's experience in Iraq - where he served for a year - has changed his mind on the occupation and has led him to leave the US Army.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12653.htm
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Iraq War Makes World Less Safe
Ann Wright, former Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Mongolia for the US Foreign Service, feels as long as the US remains in Iraq, the violence there will continue. Wright said the US needs to leave as soon as possible and leave it up to the Iraqi people to decide if they want an international presence and, if so, whom.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040806B.shtml
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