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Surge Hasn't Cut Attacks on Iraqi Civilians
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/05/3643/



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Morganton News Herald

09/05/07

President Bush’s senior advisers on Iraq have recommended he stand by his current war strategy, and he is unlikely to order more than a symbolic cut in troops before the end of the year, administration officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The recommendations from the military commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker come despite independent government findings Tuesday that Baghdad has not met most of the political, military and economic markers set by Congress...

http://tinyurl.com/2uah5e


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

While our national media was glorifying the Great Commander-in-Chief and actively disseminating their most manipulative claims and mocking Democrats on the pettiest of grounds, the Bush administration was dismantling the rule of law, systematically violating long-standing statutes and treaties at will.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/04/addington/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

The desolating reality is that Iraq has devolved into a collection of separate cities and regions ruled by sectarian or criminal militias - and the warlords who command the men with guns -- Iraq has been sundered into separate fiefdoms and has descended into Somalia-style warlordism, there is no identifiable enemy over whom President Bush may claim victory. There are now many different wars in Iraq, but none that America can win.

http://tinyurl.com/22na54



Cut and run: Bush heralds cut in troops as British forces head for exit

President George Bush flew into a US airbase in Anbar province in western Iraq yesterday to announce that recent American military successes would allow a reduction in the 160,000-strong US force in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/2ql8qr



GAO: Iraq Hasn't Met 11 of 18 Benchmarks

Violence in Iraq remains high, fewer Iraqi security forces are capable of acting independently, and the Baghdad legislature has failed to reach major political agreements needed to curb sectarian violence, says a report released Tuesday.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3556396



Juan Cole: On How al-Anbar isn't that Safe and on How its "Calm" is Artificially Produced :

Bush made a surprise visit to Al-Anbar Province on Monday, as part of his propaganda drive to get Americans to think we should stay in Iraq because "progress" is being made.

http://tinyurl.com/yr86qa


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GAO
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/04/3596/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ira+Chernus

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/04/3606



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mary+Dejevsky

Mike Collett-White reports for Reuters: "The scars from the Iraq war do not heal when US soldiers return home, says a powerful new film starring Tommy Lee Jones that keeps the conflict at the heart of the Venice film festival this year. After Brian De Palma's 'Redacted' stunned audiences with its reconstruction of horrific events in Iraq, Paul Haggis' 'In the Valley of Elah' brings a more nuanced, yet moving account of the brutality some soldiers bring back to the United States."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090407P.shtml

Edmund L. Andrews of The New York Times reports, "A previously undisclosed exchange of letters shows that President Bush was told in advance by his top Iraq envoy in May 2003 of a plan to 'dissolve Saddam's military and intelligence structures,' a plan that the envoy, L. Paul Bremer, said referred to dismantling the Iraqi Army."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090407N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Bremer

The current request for Iraq-related spending for 2008 is $116 billion, which would raise total Iraq war spending to $567 billion. Who's getting all that money?

http://tinyurl.com/ypl6ru



U.S. Poverty Data Raise New Questions About Cost of War

It is one of the most affluent countries in the world, but sill millions of people in the United States find it very difficult to put a nice meal on their dinner table.

http://tinyurl.com/22p3pl


From Information Clearing House

At a time when millions of Baghdadis outside the green zone receive only a couple of hours of water and electricity daily, Iraqis observe that this project has been completed on time, on budget, and is entirely self-sufficient with its own fresh water supply, electricity plant, sewage treatment facility, maintenance shops and warehouses.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article2364255.ece


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=embassy+Baghdad