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CNN

09/09/07

Congress is expected this week to pick apart U.S. military data suggesting attacks and civilian casualties in Baghdad have sharply decreased in recent months. Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, is scheduled to testify before Congress beginning Monday, and he is expected to tell lawmakers the troop buildup is producing results...

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Americans doubt Petraeus report

Washington Post

09/09/07

Most Americans think this week’s report from Army Gen. David H. Petraeus will exaggerate progress in Iraq, and few expect it to result in a major shift in President Bush’s policy. But despite skepticism about the Petraeus testimony and majority support for a U.S. troop reduction in Iraq, there has also been a slight increase in the number who see the situation there as improving. The findings, from a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, underscore the depth of public antipathy toward the Iraq war, the doubts about the administration’s policies and the limited confidence in the Iraqi government to meet its commitments to restore civil order...

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Robert Weller reports for The Associated Press: "'President Eisenhower warned of the growing military industrial complex in his farewell address. Since Dick Cheney can now afford solid gold oil derricks, it's safe to say we failed Ike miserably. After losing two friends and over a dozen comrades, I have this to say: Do not wage war unless it is absolutely, positively the last ditch effort for survival,' wrote Spc. Alex Horton, 22, of the 3rd Stryker Brigade in Army of Dude. 'In the future, I want my children to grow up with the belief that what I did here was wrong, in a society that doesn't deem that idea unpatriotic,' he blogged."

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Martin Kady II reports for Politico.com, "The emerging movement among Democratic leaders in Congress to find some middle ground on troop withdrawal deadlines is being met with severe pushback from rank-and-file Democrats in both chambers who are startled that their leaders are suddenly seeking bipartisan consensus on the war."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091007K.shtml



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Gary Langer reports for ABC News, "Barely a quarter of Iraqis say their security has improved in the past six months, a negative assessment of the surge in US forces that reflects worsening public attitudes across a range of measures, even as authorities report some progress curtailing violence."

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"AIPAC is the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning," U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) said in this month's Tikkun magazine. "Because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful -- most of them are quite wealthy -- they have been able to exert power."

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104067.html



Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) made a very big mistake, at least as far as the Democratic leadership in the House is concerned.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/9/18/19318/7181


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In the week that British forces departed from Basra Palace, Kim Sengupta reports on the propects for a country where so many have died - and are still dying.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2944349.ece


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By Andrew Tilghman

Fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq is the last big argument for keeping U.S. troops in the country. But the military's estimation of the threat is alarmingly wrong.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18346.htm



Bush Administration Has Intensified False Reporting On Al Qaeda Since 'Surge' Began

Attempting to drum up public support for the war in Iraq in July, President Bush referred to al Qaeda 95 times in a single speech, claiming the war in Iraq has become the central front in the fight against al Qaeda.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/08/crs-al-qaeda/


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Tell Congress To Reject The PHONY Baloney Petraeus Report

Please make a special point of making at least one toll free phone call to Congress this week. Here are three tested working numbers 800-828-0498, 800-614-2803 or 866-340-9281, and to make sure your voice is heard also submit the action pages below.

TELL CONGRESS THIS IS THEIR LAST CHANCE TO STOP THE LIES

Eight months ago, when Congress lacked the will to reject the "surge" scam cooked up by the White House, we knew how it would all turn out.

The administration sent out all its stooges to try to lull anyone who lacked the capacity for critical thinking by saying, "Just wait until we see the results, in a couple months, and a couple months more after that."

OUT NOW ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/get_out_now.php

Instead, the situation continues to deteriorate the more money and bodies we throw at it. And now that the inevitable and damning results are in, the same White House fraudsters are doing everything they can to hide and downplay them. The GAO report, that only 3 of 18 of the so-called benchmarks have been met, has been "edited" like just like all those science reports that did fit their political agenda. Even the Petraeus report itself has been doctored by the resident spin team.

And don't expect anything from Petraeus himself in his testimony but the Stepford party line. Remember this is the same General Petraeus, who vouched for the lie that we had found the WMD biological labs way back in 2003. He has floated to the top of the administration scum pond precisely because he was practically the last military man of rank who would parrot according to the administration's bidding. They might as well have Tony Snow deliver the report to Congress.

Not one more dime except to get out. It's time to END the fraud on the American people called the war on terror in Iraq.

And while you've at it, please speak out on the question of Cheney impeachment. It's just one more click of the mouse. Join the 100,000 of our own participants who are already mobilized on this. NOTHING will get us out of Iraq faster than getting him out of the White House at the first possible moment.

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And after they've run our military into the ground running fools errands in Iraq for the last 5 years, who pops his head up again this week but the REAL terrorist, the man who Bush said he wasn't worried about and not spending any time on? The Cheney gang is not the least bit interested in stopping the real bad guys. They did NOTHING to stop 9/11 despite warnings from people with their hair on fire. Instead they need to keep them around to keep the rest of us hiding under our beds, or as justification for their own evil deeds.

The one thing we know for sure is that occupying Iraq is making things worse. Bombing civilians is NOT going to root out Bin Laden. We leave you with a very interesting quote from the end of an MSNBC article on the latest Bin Laden tape. The speaker was Asad Durani, retired head of Pakistan's spy agency.

Durani said U.S. Bombing campaigns along the Afghan-Pakistani border had thoroughly alienated civilians who otherwise might help root out Al Qaeda commanders. "The first instinct you Americans have is military power - - dropping bombs," he said. "This was absolutely 100 percent guaranteed not to succeed, and it's continued that way for the past 6 years."

WHY NOT ENCOURAGE DENNIS KUCINICH TO KEEP SPEAKING THE TRUTH?

Who else out there has had more courage to speak the truth, or more wisdom to question the insanity of our Iraq policy since day one. If you can, why don't you make a donation to Dennis to tell him you appreciate his stands on the issues.

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The New York Times editors say, "Mr. Bush, we fear, isn't looking for the truth, only for ways to confound the public, scare Democrats into dropping their demands for a sound exit strategy, and prolong the war until he leaves office. At times, General Petraeus gives the disturbing impression that he, too, is more focused on the political game in Washington than the unfolding disaster in Iraq. That serves neither American nor Iraqi interests."

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