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By Robert Fisk

Western mercenaries killed their 48-year-old Iraqi Armenian mother, Marou Awanis, and her best friend - firing 40 bullets into her body as she drove her taxi near their four-vehicle convoy in Baghdad.

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Thom Shanker and Steven Lee Myers report for The New York Times, "With its international mandate in Iraq set to expire in 11 months, the Bush administration will insist that the government in Baghdad give the United States broad authority to conduct combat operations and guarantee civilian contractors specific legal protections from Iraqi law, according to administration and military officials."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012508K.shtml



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Arizona Senator John McCain, on Thursday turned his attention to the Democrats, saying he was "absolutely astonished" that Senator Hillary Clinton "says she wants to surrender in Iraq -- she wants to wave the white flag." "After all the sacrifice we have made in this (U.S. troop) surge.

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By Keith Olbermann



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Politico — The White House confirmed that the president's budget will not request a full year's funding for the Iraq war in 2009, leaving that battle to his successor and the new Congress.

http://www.ourfuture.org/news-headline/bush-budget-wont-fund-war


From TomPaine.com

Michael Abramowitz reports for The Washington Post, "The leading Democratic presidential candidates and their allies on Capitol Hill have launched fierce attacks in recent days on a White House plan to forge a new, long-term security agreement with the Iraqi government, complaining that the administration is trying to lock in a lasting US military presence in Iraq before the next president takes office."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012408L.shtml



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Keeping US troops in Iraq on a long-term basis was a key part of the neo-cons' agenda. They were well aware of the link between military power and political control. As long as the US had troops on the ground that the Iraqi government felt it needed, the US would be able to use them as leverage for defining the main lines of Iraqi government policy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2245308,00.html


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In a ruling on a freedom of information request relating to what is alleged to be the first draft of the dossier published in 2002, the tribunal said that the public should be allowed to read the document.

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Students of how the Bush administration led the nation into the Iraq war can now go online to browse a comprehensive database of top officials' statements before the invasion, connecting the dots between hundreds of claims, mostly discredited since then, linking Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda or warning that he possessed forbidden weapons.

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LISTEN TO BUSH ADMINISTRATION LIES
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Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neo-cons, and Iraq

Are the ideas of the conservative political philosopher Leo Strauss a shaping influence on the Bush administration's world outlook? Danny Postel interviews Shadia Drury - a leading scholarly critic of Strauss - and asks her about the connection between Plato's dialogues, secrets and lies, and the United States-led war in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5010.htm


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