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Tennessean
by Saritha Prabhu

02/11/08

How’s the Iraq war doing? As wars go, this has become a back-burner war now. It is still the war a majority of Americans love to hate, but we are understandably more worried about our pocketbooks now, and our borders. Besides, the surge, we tell ourselves, is working, is it not? Which kind of lets us off the hook from thinking too much about the war. Meanwhile, a weird kind of codependence has sprung up between the Iraqi government and the Bush administration — the latter doesn’t want to leave Iraq, and the former wants our troops there until 2018. On another note, it makes for some sad commentary that the Democratic-led Congress hasn’t shown much interest in holding hearings to investigate prewar intelligence. It is universally believed that the Iraq war was started and perpetuated by lies, but those who have the power to investigate are basically saying, ‘Let bygones be bygones. Now that we are in Iraq, let’s move forward’...

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There has been no mass return of the two million Iraqis who fled to Syria and Jordan or a further 2.4 million refugees who left their homes within Iraq.

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"The big issue here is at what rate can the Iraqis be responsible for assuming their own security?

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Michael Schwartz writes for TomDispatch: "A tidal wave of misery is engulfing Iraq - and it isn't the usual violence that Americans are accustomed to hearing about and tuning out. To be sure, it's rooted in that violence, but this tsunami of misery is social and economic in nature. It dislodges people from their jobs, sweeps them from their homes, tears them from their material possessions, and carries them off from families and communities. It leaves them stranded in hostile towns or foreign countries, with no anchor to resist the moment when the next wave of displacement sweeps over them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021108D.shtml



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Michael R. Gordon, reporting for The New York Times, writes, "The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But when it comes to the planning for the Iraq war, even an unclassified assessment can acquire the status of a state secret."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021108A.shtml



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According to Chris Good, The Hill, "Forty-six congressional Democrats will send a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey Friday afternoon, asking him what he is doing to ensure that President Bush follows Congress's ban on establishing permanent military bases in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020908B.shtml



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Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail, writing for Inter Press Service, report: "Now that the smoke has cleared and the rubble settled, residents of a group of bombed Iraqi villages see the raid as really a US loss. Many Iraqis view the attack January 10 by bombers and F-16 jets on a cluster of villages in the Latifiya district south of Baghdad as overkill."

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Campaigning in Virginia today, the GOP front-runner criticized his rival Democratic candidates for wanting to set a date for troop withdrawal from Iraq. He says the move could have `catastrophic" consequences.

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=7845281


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Aadel Faiq and Brian Ross, reporting for ABC News, write, "The father of a 9-year-old Iraqi boy killed by Blackwater security guards says the company has offered to build a monument and make an unspecified cash payment to compensate him for the death of his son, Ali."

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