World-News

House Democrats are planning another veto showdown with President Bush on the Iraq war. And this time, they say they won't back down.

http://snipurl.com/1tefv


From Information Clearing House



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

Joshua Holland and Raed Jarrar, from AlterNet, report: "The United Nations Security Council, with support from the British and American delegations, is poised to cut the Iraqi parliament out of one of the most significant decisions the young government will make: when foreign troops will depart."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110907C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Holland
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Raed+Jarrar

Jason Leopold, Maya Schenwar and Matt Renner, reporting for Truthout, write: "A year after Democrats took control of both houses of Congress, due in large part to the public's frustration with the occupation of Iraq, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a new plan Thursday that ties additional war funding to the withdrawal of US troops from the region."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110907A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+funding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maya+Schenwar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Renner

Paying tribes to keep the peace is nothing new. It was one of Mr. Hussein's tools in his selective patronage system designed to weaken and control all institutions outside his Baath party. The British also tried it when they ruled Iraq last century.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1108/p01s04-wome.html


From Information Clearing House

House Democrats said Thursday they would send President Bush $50 billion for combat operations on the condition that he begin withdrawing troops from Iraq.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-7062241,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Manu Raju and Mike Soraghan, reporting for The Hill, write: "Four powerful lawmakers are working on a new Iraq plan for the Democratic Congress in the hope it will reignite the war debate as soon as this week."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110807A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Manu+Raju
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Soraghan

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/07/5083/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Howard+Zinn

Blix said that by staying in Iraq, the US military would also be able to keep a close eye on neighbouring Iran -- a country he said was treated differently to another state with nuclear ambitions, North Korea.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071107/pl_afp/iraqusmilitaryblix_071107063949


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blix
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

"You're not going home" this year until more money for the war is approved. But his proposal to add $70 billion for the war was voted down.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06399868.htm


From Information Clearing House

By David Cracknell, Political Editor

TONY BLAIR privately conceded two weeks before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein did not have any usable weapons of mass destruction, Robin Cook, the former foreign secretary, reveals today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18676.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=weapons+of+mass+destruction