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by Art Levine, The Huffington Post

The party faces long-term disaster without the will to effectively oppose the war.
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by Bill Scher

Do Senate GOPers want to tell their constituents they support the real Bush-Petraeus plan?

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The Associated Press reports, "The most prominent figure in a U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq was killed Thursday by a bomb planted near his home in Anbar province, 10 days after he met with President Bush, police and tribal leaders said."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307B.shtml



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James Glanz for The New York Times reports that a carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq's rich oil fields seems to have collapsed. The oil law is part of a list of benchmarks that the Bush administration has been pressing the Iraqis to meet.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307T.shtml



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Ali Yussef for Agence France-Presse reports that "Hundreds of Shiites and Sunnis marched on Wednesday in protest at the building by US troops of a tall concrete wall separating their northwest Baghdad neighborhoods."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307R.shtml



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

President Bush has already made it clear that he intends for American troops to remain in Iraq for years--if not decades--to come. And it also seems clear that the GOP presidential candidates (except Ron Paul) plan to follow Bush's madness. Republicans need to wake up to reality: people are sick of George Bush, and they are sick of the Iraq war. Good grief! In less time than our troops have been in Iraq, our men and women in uniform defeated the combined forces of Germany, Japan, and Italy during World War II. In Iraq, we have not been able to secure the city of Baghdad........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin398.htm



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Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39235



Meet Gen. David Petraeus

His Militia Strategy Plunged Iraq Into a Civil War, And Now He's Back for More
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=13744


From Information Clearing House

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Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge

Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service: "Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant...Fallon was strongly opposed to Petraeus's role as pitch man for the surge policy in Iraq adopted by Bush in December as putting his own interests ahead of a sound military posture in the Middle East and Southwest Asia...The CENTCOM commander believed the United States should be withdrawing troops from Iraq urgently."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307L.shtml



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The U.S. has promised to release 50 of them every day throughout Ramadan. But the U.S. is not the only authority with the right to jail Iraqis. Iraqi armed forces and police can also imprison Iraqis without trail and informed sources say there are more than 82,000 Iraqis in government jails.

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\\2007-09-13\\kurd.htm


From Information Clearing House

Staff Sergeant Yance Gray, 26, and Sergeant Omar Mora, 28, were among a group of seven soldiers serving in Iraq who wrote a piece excoriating America's conduct of the war. The piece was published in the New York Times last month.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2167858,00.html


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