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Beggars have become as visible as blast walls and checkpoints in Iraqi cities.
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The Nation
by Michael T. Klare

07/14/09

Has it all come to this? The wars and invasions, the death and destruction, the exile and torture, the resistance and collapse? In a world of shrinking energy reserves, is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet? Will it all end not with a bang but with a gusher? The latest oil news out of that country offers at least a hint of Iraq’s fate. For modern Iraq, oil has always been at the heart of everything. Its very existence as a unified state is largely the product of oil...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090720/klare


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Quil Lawrence, NPR News: "Nearly two weeks after U.S. combat troops officially pulled out of Iraq's cities, the government in Baghdad is hailing the withdrawal as a sign that it is holding the U.S. to an agreement stipulating that all American troops leave Iraq by 2012."

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Kaitlynn Riely, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Nearly as soon as they arrived, people became sick - not just the soldiers, but also the KBR employees. First, Mr. Powell said, their noses would bleed and their skin would feel raw. They developed sore throats and skin sores and began to cough up blood. When asked, KBR told soldiers it must be allergies or a reaction to the sand."

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Michael Schwartz, TomDispatch.com: "Here's how reporters Steven Lee Myers and Marc Santora of The New York Times described the highly touted American withdrawal from Iraq's cities last week: 'Much of the complicated work of dismantling and removing millions of dollars of equipment from the combat outposts in the city has been done during the dark of night. Gen. Ray Odierno, the overall American commander in Iraq, has ordered that an increasing number of basic operations - transport and re-supply convoys, for example - take place at night, when fewer Iraqis are likely to see that the American withdrawal is not total.' Acting in the dark of night, in fact, seems to catch the nature of American plans for Iraq in a particularly striking way."

http://www.truthout.org/070909U?n



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By Scott Ritter

America will have to deal with the reality that, no matter how we spin facts, President Bush's ill-advised Iraqi adventure has ended in defeat.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23004.htm



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British weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly was writing an expose about his work with anthrax and his warnings that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction at the time of his death in July 2003.

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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

07/06/09

The Iraq War has been long forgotten and treated as a ‘mission abolished’ after the new president pledged to withdraw U.S. forces and the American media, public, and Congress turned their attention back to a war even liberals could love (or at least support) — Afghanistan. Liberals wanted to refocus on the real war on terror — even though it’s not chic to call it that under the new Democratic administration. But what about poor Iraq? As baseball great Yogi Berra once said, ‘It ain’t over, till it’s over.’ And the underlying indicators seem to indicate that the worst is yet to come...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2538


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The US Withdrawal: Rebranding the Occupation or Changing the Game?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/07/07-0



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Nick Mottern, Truthout: "As most American troops reportedly are leaving Iraqi cities, the occupation enters a new phase in which it will become more clear whether the US-backed Iraqi government will be able to retain control without having US firepower instantly available to it in the street. In this situation, detention of Iraqi citizens, a key element of the occupation, may increase."

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