World-News

The Bush administration is considering an increase in troop levels in Iraq of 17,000 to 20,000, which would be accomplished in part by delaying the departure of two Marine regiments now deployed in Anbar Province, Pentagon officials said.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/29/news/policy.php



Riverbend: Iraqi Girl Blog: You know your country is in trouble when...

An 8-year war and 13-year blockade are looking like the country's 'Golden Years'.
http://tinyurl.com/ylxwfv



World laughing at US: Mahathir

"The whole world is laughing at America, at the stupidity of the decisions they made and at the refusal to recognise the situation." He described US President George W.Bush as being in "total self-denial".

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20989417-2703,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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Dead wrong

CounterPunch
by Missy Beattie

01/03/07

The president's policy to surge an additional 20,000 troops to quell the violence that defines Iraq is as dead wrong as his pronouncements that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, as dead wrong as his link between Iraq and 9/11, as dead wrong as his words that our troops would be perceived as liberators, and as dead wrong as sending our servicemen and women into war with inadequate body armor. It is as dead wrong as the decision to invade Iraq...

http://counterpunch.org/beattie01032007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Sending More Troops To Iraq Is A Mirage
http://www.rense.com/general74/dee.htm


Informant: ranger116



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