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What A Great Freakin' War!!

By David Michael Green

For months - nay, years! - I've been ranting about how screwed up the war in Iraq has been, and how disastrous have been its consequences. What a fool I've been! In reality, it's actually turned out pretty great.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19210.htm



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By Garrett Therolf

Government spokesman Ali Dabbagh echoed remarks by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates last week that the agreement would include no provisions for permanent American bases. The accord would take effect after the United Nations mandate governing U.S. operations in the country expires at the end of the year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19198.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7082/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

As President George W. Bush seeks to deeply entrench U.S. military forces in Iraq, the Congress and foreign policy pundits are looking beyond his term and debating the future of U.S. foreign policy there.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40934


From Information Clearing House

By Seattle PI Editorial

With the clock ticking on our "commitments" in Iraq - the international mandate expires in less than a year - the Bush administration is left in an interesting position. It could create a plan for a troop withdrawal; instead, the plan being negotiated with the Iraqi government focuses on reasons to stay there.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19190.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw

By Jonathan Steele

Defeat in Iraq? The paradox of Baghdad is that a fundamentally anti-western government is umbilically linked to US occupation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19192.htm



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Reuters reports: "The Iraq war may not dominate US news reports as the carnage drops, but a new report underscores the financial burden of persistent combat that is helping run up the government's credit card."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012608A.shtml

The Acid Test

By Claire Spencer

As we face yet more ideologically-driven debate about Iran, the central question is how far and entrenched is this retreat from logic in the pursuit and practice of US and UK foreign policy? Are we all going to stand by while another set of Manechean visions is paraded before us in the form of the struggles between freedom and despotism, moderates and radicals, global jihadi-terrorist networks and pro-Western freedom fighters?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19176.htm



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By Richard Cowan

The Iraq war may not dominate U.S. news reports as the carnage drops, but a new report underscores the financial burden of persistent combat that is helping run up the government's credit card.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19182.htm



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