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Truthout's Maya Schenwar reports: "despite the Bush administration's warnings renewed Iraq funding is immediately necessary, a November Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, obtained by Truthout, states preexisting funds can easily finance the war through February, and probably beyond. While the Army cites January as the deadline for replenishing funding for the 'global war on terror,' the CRS notes the Department of Defense could reasonably slow its 'non-readiness-related spending,' stretching money transferred from the general defense budget to last another month."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120407J.shtml



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Bush Negotiates Permanent Presence in Iraq

By Marjorie Cohn

The revelation that Bush will sign an agreement for a permanent U.S. military presence in Iraq before his term is up confirms the real reason he invaded Iraq and changed its regime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18820.htm



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Damien Cave reports in Sunday's New York Times that there is a growing sense that Iraq has slipped to new depths of lawlessness as "Some American officials estimate that as much as a third of what they spend on Iraqi contracts and grants ends up unaccounted for or stolen, with a portion going to Shiite or Sunni militias."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120207Y.shtml

McCarthyism Comes to Iraq: Dententions of Those Accused of "Iran Connection" on the Rise

Locals claim the U.S. military had been using members of the Mehdi Army to carry out attacks on Sunnis in Baghdad.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/69343/


From Information Clearing House

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The new McCarthyism

The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

03/03/10

The ‘Gitmo Nine’ aren’t terrorists. They weren’t captured fighting for the Taliban. They’ve made no attempts to kill Americans. They haven’t declared war on the United States, nor have they joined any group that has. The ‘Gitmo Nine’ are lawyers working in the Department of Justice who fought the Bush administration’s treatment of suspected terrorists as unconstitutional. Now, conservatives are portraying them as agents of the enemy…. The attorneys who challenged the Bush administration’s national-security policies saw themselves as fulfilling their legal obligations by fighting an unconstitutional power grab. At heart, this was a disagreement over process: Should people accused of terrorism be afforded the same human rights and due process protections as anyone else in American custody?

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_new_mccarthyism


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Sami Moubayed

When President George W Bush comes out to praise political prisoners in Damascus, he completely ruins their credibility in the Syrian Street, projecting them as stooges for the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18812.htm



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Matt Renner reports for Truthout: "The storm brewing over funding for the Iraq war has escalated in recent days. Democrats appear ready to stand firm on their demand that any further funding for US military operations in Iraq be predicated on a timetable for a draw-down of US forces there."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/113007D.shtml



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Seventy three percent of Poles is for as quickest as possible pullout of Poland's soldiers from Iraq, according to results of a poll conducted by the CBOS public opinion polling center, which are available on Thursday.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/30/content_7171331.htm



From Information Clearing House

By Ron Jacobs

Making occupation and calling it peace. Killing fewer and calling it progress. Rotating troops and calling it a withdrawal. Setting up new death squads and calling them allies. Lowering standards and calling it opening new opportunities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18791.htm



State Department official Iraq update is really compilation of plagiarized major media articles

Kind of pathetic when the official report from the US State Department on what's "really" happening in Iraq is actually just a bunch of plagiarized paragraphs from the major media in the US.

http://snipurl.com/1ueb8


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