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rudkla - 7. Sep, 00:03

Donnerstag, 6. September 2007

Experts Doubt Drop in Violence in Iraq

Karen DeYoung reports for The Washington Post, "The US military's claim that violence has decreased sharply in Iraq in recent months has come under scrutiny from many experts within and outside the government, who contend that some of the underlying statistics are questionable and selectively ignore negative trends."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090607D.shtml

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karen+DeYoung

rudkla - 6. Sep, 23:40

Edwards Calls on Congress to Force Bush to Change Course on Iraq

Foon Rhee reports for The Boston Globe: "John Edwards said today that Congress, instead of arguing with the White House over whether benchmarks have been met for progress in Iraq, should force President Bush to change policy by setting the start of troop withdrawals in war funding bills. 'It's time for the Congress to stand its ground,' he said on a conference call with reporters. 'If there's no timetable, there should be no funding.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090607O.shtml

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

rudkla - 6. Sep, 17:33

Bush knew Saddam had no WMD

Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal

09/06/07

On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam’s inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again. Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD. No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=weapons+of+mass+destruction
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tenet
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal

rudkla - 6. Sep, 12:02

U.S. holding 22,000 Iraqi prisoners

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said many of those languishing in U.S. jails are innocent and have been incarcerated for long periods without trial or charges.

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2007-09-04/kurd.htm

From Information Clearing House

rudkla - 6. Sep, 09:42

No Relief From Fear: Despite U.S. Buildup

Families Still Fleeing Baghdad Homes As Violence, Rivalries Loom Over Paralyzed Iraqi Government.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090402275.html?referrer=emailarticle

From Information Clearing House

rudkla - 6. Sep, 09:38

Mittwoch, 5. September 2007

How VIPs Get "Brainwashed" on Iraq

Robert Parry writes for Consortium News, "having been on several of these war-zone congressional trips (as a pool reporter for the Associated Press in the 1980s), I can vouch for how effective the propaganda exercises can be."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090507H.shtml

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry

rudkla - 5. Sep, 23:34

Keith Olbermann: "You have no remaining credibility about Iraq, sir"

http://www.blogowogo.com/blog_article.php?aid=951846&t=

Informant: Debi Clark

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Keith Olbermann: Bush Playing Us With "Withdrawal"

Keith Olbermann comments for MSNBC's Countdown: "President Bush told troops in Iraq some of them may be able to come home. To a country dying of thirst, the president seemed to vaguely promise a drink from a full canteen -- a promise predicated on the assumption that he is not lying. Yet you are lying, Mr. Bush. Again. But now, we know why."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090507A.shtml