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All the spin in the world can't change the facts on the ground in Iraq
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/862/re71.htm


From Information Clearing House

U.S. troops would probably stay in Iraq for a "protracted period" despite gradual withdrawal, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday.

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From Information Clearing House



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

By FRANK RICH

General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker could grab an hour of prime television time only by slinking into the safe foxhole of Fox News, where Brit Hume chaperoned them on a gloomy, bunkerlike set before an audience of merely 1.5 million true believers. Their "Briefing for America," as Fox titled it, was all too fittingly interrupted early on for a commercial promising pharmaceutical relief from erectile dysfunction.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18395.htm



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By Chrisopher King

Christopher King urges the British people to call to account their representatives who unleashed war on Iraq and "failed not only our interests but also those of the Iraqis they claimed to be helping by acting.... from corrupt motives, with recklessness, bad judgement and incompetence".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18399.htm

One family's harrowing story of kidnap and murder in Iraq

By Kim Sengupta

Nadia Hayali tells Kim Sengupta of the day her family were seized and she lost her husband, a story that gives the lie to claims that US forces are succeeding in Baghdad.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18398.htm



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

By Ray McGovern

For those still wondering why President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney sent our young men and women into Iraq, the secret is now "largely" out.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18406.htm



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Writing in The New Yorker, George Packer says "the inadequacy of the surge is already clear, if one honestly assesses the daily lives of Iraqis. The militias, which have become less conspicuous as they wait out the surge, are nevertheless growing in strength, as they extend their control over neighborhoods like Ahmed's. In the backstreets, the local markets, the university classrooms, and other realms beyond the reach of American observers or American troops, there is no rule of law, only the rule of the gun."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091607E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/15/3859/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Conason

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/16/3879/



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