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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/11/5759/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permanent+bases

"It is immoral for Congress to make a deal to keep this war going. It is immoral to keep a war going that is based on lies. And it is immoral to make a deal to claim legislative victories unrelated to the war while at the same time spending money to keep the war going," Kucinich said.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/29282


From Information Clearing House



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

Ben Lando, reporting for United Press International, writes, "Big Oil's big dreams are close to coming true as Iraq's Oil Ministry prepares deals for the country's largest oil fields."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121007C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ben+Lando

Brian Ross, Maddy Sauer and Justin Rood, reporting for ABC News, write, "A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the US government are covering up the incident."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121007A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Halliburton

U.S. House of Representatives Democratic leaders are contemplating legislation that would give President George W. Bush $70 billion in new funds for war but without any timetables for withdrawing troops from Iraq.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08354832.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

Wer soll diesem Präsidenten noch vertrauen? Zuerst hat George W. Bush die ganze Welt belogen, um im Irak seinen Krieg um Öl führen zu können. Heute wissen alle, dass kein einziger US-Soldat im Irak wäre, wenn dort nur Bananen wachsen würden. Doch der Krieg um Öl hat bisher mehr als 200.000 Menschen das Leben gekostet.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682693ms77

Democrats controlling Congress sent the most explicit signals yet on Thursday that they are resigned to providing additional funding for the war in Iraq before Congress adjourns for the year.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22146002/


From Information Clearing House



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

A video that describes what the situation is really like in Iraq.



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18852.htm

From The Guardian UK, Jonathan Steele writes: "If the gladdest tidings of this pre-Christmas season have been the US intelligence community's brilliant move to undermine a Bush attack on Iran by revealing there is no Iranian nuclear weapons programme, the worst news concerns US policy on Iraq. And it is not just the US announcement of plans to get the Iraqi government to agree to permanent US military bases and an open-ended occupation, thereby confirming what most analysts had long assumed was the Republicans' intention."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120707H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Steele

Warren P. Strobel reports for McClatchy Newspapers, "A State Department project manager banished from Iraq by the US ambassador and under scrutiny by the Justice Department continues to oversee the construction of the much-delayed new American embassy in Baghdad from nearby Kuwait, State Department officials disclosed Thursday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120707N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baghdad+embassy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Warren+P.+Strobel