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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes: "When Gen. David Petraeus testified to Congress, there was talk about ethno-sectarian violence levels. That's official language for Iraqis' civil war deaths."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sectarian
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+war+deaths

NEWSWEEK has learned that a separate internal report being prepared by a Pentagon working group will "differ substantially" from Petraeus's recommendations.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/09/newsweek-internal-pentagon-report.html


From Information Clearing House



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

The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker defended U.S. war strategy on Tuesday in the face of criticism from members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11411172.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Dead Dogs, Dead Ponies: The Petraeus Show
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3760

Denying the Truth: Petraeus, Iraq, and Our Pontius Pilate Press
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3774

The Problem With a “War” Strategy
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3754/



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ryan+Crocker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pierre+Tristam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arianna+Huffington
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thom+Hartmann

In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, American military historian Gabriel Kolko argues that the situation in Iraq is worse than ever and that the artificial nation, created after World War I, is breaking up. The "surge," he says, is also failing.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,504865,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Video Report From Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18358.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sectarian
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anbar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=insurgents
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Al+Qaeda

By Patrick McElwee and Robert Naiman

Just Foreign Policy

Unfortunately, the debate over whether the U.S. military should end its occupation of Iraq remains largely uninformed by accurate estimates of Iraqi deaths, at least here in the United States. Worse, there seems to be a lack of interest in how many Iraqis have been killed even as many who oppose withdrawal warn of the deaths that would ensue if the troops left.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18363.htm



Iraqi Civilian Casualties: 2007 More Deadly Than 2006

Comparing each month's death toll in 2007 to the death toll from that same month in 2006, the numbers show that surge has not made Iraq safer for the civilian population. By some measurements, Iraqis are in greater danger than a year ago.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004116.php


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraqi+deaths
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=death+toll
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+casualties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+McElwee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Naiman

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3766/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ryan+Crocker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3759/



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

In Baghdad, joy is unconfined because America has struck a deal with Sunni insurgents in Anbar province for them to fight al Qaeda militants rather than US troops. This deal has been lubricated by large cash injections from the US taxpayer to the very militias who have been killing American soldiers in places such as Fallujah for years. Once again, our enemies' enemies are our friends.

http://tinyurl.com/2rfxq8



We have lost everything

"I don't like to remember how much my six-year old daughter, Rana, suffered. Sometimes when I'm asleep, I can hear her in the hospital screaming with pain.

http://tinyurl.com/2qbz6f


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anbar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fallujah

A majority calls the invasion a mistake and predicts the war will be lost. A record 60 percent say the United States should set a timetable to withdraw forces "and stick to that timetable regardless of what is going on in Iraq."

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/11/content_6700376.htm


From Information Clearing House



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