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Peter Baker reports for The Washington Post: "The television commercial is grim and gripping: A soldier who lost both legs in an explosion near Fallujah explains why he thinks US forces need to stay in Iraq.... Every investigation has shown that Iraq did not, in fact, have anything to do with the Sept. 11 attacks. But the ad, part of a new $15 million media blitz launched by an advocacy group allied with the White House, may be the most overt attempt during the current debate in Congress over the war to link the attacks with Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207B.shtml



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Warren P. Strobel reports for McClatchy Newspapers, "Much to the frustration of the senators - mostly Democrats, but including a few Republicans - who grilled them Tuesday, neither the general nor the diplomat outlined a strategy for putting Iraq back together or a timetable for bringing US troops home."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207N.shtml



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Christian Science Monitor
by Andy Zelleke

09/11/07

Gen. David Petraeus’s report of some ’surge’-driven success on the ground does not change the reality that invading Iraq has proved disastrous, and that nothing plausibly salvageable there is worth thousands more GI lives, or hundreds of billions more dollars. So our soldiers should come home. But President Bush is right to remind the nation that humanitarian horrors followed closely on the heels of America’s withdrawal from Vietnam, and that a horrific scenario could unfold in Iraq if US forces leave abruptly. Unconscionable as it may have been to stand by during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, consider how much greater the moral culpability when the slaughter would flow from a sequence of events that America’s own war of choice set in motion...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0911/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary

09/11/07

Public finance and economics textbooks tell us that markets fail to provide adequate public goods such as security, which is why governments provide it. Yet if we look at Iraq in 2007, its government has failed to secure the country, and even the mighty US army has not stopped the slaughter. Instead of being protected by the corrupt state police, Iraqis look to militias for defense against crime and terror. There is in Iraq massive government failure. American politicians blame the current government chiefs and the members of parliament for not reconciling their differences and for the lack of progress in providing security and utilities. But we have to look beneath the current personae to the structure of governance that the American presence created. If the current structure is the best that political science has come up with, then the field of political science has to admit to intellectual failure...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002971.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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by Rick Perlstein

Folks for staying in Iraq so we don't precipitate some fresh disaster are making the same argument that the British made about keeping their colonies forever.

http://ga3.org/ct/0p20pgF1EXCe/



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Eugene Robinson writes for The Washington Post: "The next six months in Iraq are crucial - and always will be. That noise you heard yesterday on Capitol Hill was the can being kicked further down the road leading to January 2009, when George W. Bush gets to hand off his Iraq fiasco to somebody else."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091107E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eugene+Robinson

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0911-01.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3779/



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