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The Associated Press reports, "Most US troops can be withdrawn safely from Iraq in roughly one year and the Bush administration should begin planning the pullout immediately, according to a study released Wednesday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082907C.shtml



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/29/3474/

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Iraq: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

Michael Winship writes for Truthout: "Throughout, the Bush administration has misinterpreted, cooked or hidden the numbers that tell the real story: the number of attacks, the number of suicide bombings, the numbers of civilian dead and wounded. For politicians and generals, statistics (as I have quoted an old British truism here before) are like a lamppost to a drunk - used more for support than illumination."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Winship

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/29/3492/



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

Britain's pull-out from Iraq will go ahead regardless of what happens to American troops in Baghdad, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said today.

http://snipurl.com/1q248


From Information Clearing House

Police ordered a curfew Tuesday in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and ordered more than one million pilgrims to leave after two days of violence claimed least 10 lives during a Shiite religious festival.

http://snipurl.com/1q246


From Information Clearing House



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

James Glanz and Eric Schmitt, of The New York Times, report: "Several federal agencies are investigating a widening network of criminal cases involving the purchase and delivery of billions of dollars of weapons, supplies and other material to Iraqi and American forces, according to American officials. The officials said it amounted to the largest ring of fraud and kickbacks uncovered in the conflict here, the officials said. The inquiry has already led to several indictments of Americans, with more expected, the officials said. One of the investigations involves a senior American officer who worked closely with Gen. David H. Petraeus in setting up the logistics operation to supply the Iraqi forces when General Petraeus was in charge of training and equipping those forces in 2004 and 2005, American officials said Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807J.shtml



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

With the civilian death toll in Iraq approaching a million innocent victims, where is the outrage from the pro-life movement in America?

http://snipurl.com/1q0m4


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+death+toll
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hypocrisy

Consider the most recent example of disdain for Iraqi national sovereignty: the U.S. attempt to overthrow of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

http://www.counterpunch.org/dimaggio08272007.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anthony+DiMaggio

The gunmen are particularly stringent when it comes to Christian families, who are forced to convert to Islam or pay huge taxes.

http://snipurl.com/1q0le


From Information Clearing House