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Bush sends our children to Iraq to get their heads blown off for his amusement: Rep. Pete Stark

"I'm just amazed that they can't figure out -- the Republicans are worried that they can't pay for insuring an additional 10 million children. They sure don't care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/18/417935.aspx


From Information Clearing House

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/17/cbsnews_investigates/main3378787.shtml


From Information Clearing House

THE British military is facing allegations that the bodies of Iraqi prisoners showed evidence of eye-gauging, genital mutilation and hanging.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22608773-401,00.html



Iraq's Brutally Wounded (Photo Essay)

As Americans scramble for funding to try to help the many wounded veterans returning from war, many more thousands in Iraq have suffered equally horrific injuries, yet have virtually no way of receiving care.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/65513/


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Iraq put more pressure on the United States on Thursday to pull out security contractor Blackwater from Baghdad but the State Department said no decision had been made on the North Carolina firm.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18425934.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercenaries
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This video clip from the upcoming, award winning film from Steve Connors and Molly Bingham, Meeting Resistance, portrays a side of the Iraqi insurgency President Bush doesn't want the world to see.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18580.htm



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By Associated Press

President Vladimir Putin, in his latest jab at Washington, suggested Thursday that the U.S. military campaign in Iraq was a "pointless" battle against the Iraqi people, aimed in part at seizing the country's oil reserves.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18579.htm



Putin: US must set Iraq withdrawal

Speaking on national television and radio, the president called the US occupation of Iraq a "dead end" and suggested that the United States had invaded the country for its oil.

http://snipurl.com/1sced


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/18/4666



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Conn+Hallinan

Truthdig
by Robert Scheer

When will we listen to the troops? I’m not talking about soldiers used as props for a George Bush photo op, telling reporters what Washington wants to hear. The military is disciplined and thus accustomed, from Gen. David Petraeus on down, to toeing the official line. But the Iraq war has also produced brilliant messages of dissent from the ranks that should cause us to stop in our tracks and reconsider what we have wrought. First, a group of sergeants came forward, and on Tuesday it was the captains’ turn to speak out. … How come those brave veterans know it’s time to get out, but leading Democrats, who voted for the war to be authorized, are still pussyfooting about quickly removing the troops from this ever-deepening quagmire?

http://tinyurl.com/3bl3sf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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"In the beginning it was very difficult. I never imagined that one day I was going to be forced by destiny to feed my children from the remains of other people's food," Barira said. "We always had good food on our table when my husband was alive but since he was killed in August 2005, my life has gone from bad to worse."

http://snipurl.com/1saln


From Information Clearing House

By Bernd Debusmann

No court, either in Iraq or in the U.S., has dealt with an Iraqi national seeking compensation for death from a U.S. private security contractor. The companies operate in a legal no-man's land where they have been virtually immune from prosecution.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18576.htm



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