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According to The Associated Press, several whistleblowers have suffered harrowing consequences - ranging from ridicule, to loss of employment, to imprisonment and interrogation in a Baghdad compound - for their decision to report corruption and fraud in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082507Z.shtml

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Iraq for Sale Banned Excerpts



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Iraq corruption whistleblowers face penalties
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20430153/


Informant: John Perna

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Whistle Blowers On Contractor Fraud in Iraq Face Penalties

By Deborah Hastings

One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted. Or worse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18253.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Deborah+Hastings

As coalition troops continue to die on Iraqi soil and the US Government's military spending on the war bleeds into billions of dollars, a new book says that not only could this have been avoided, but it was all predictable, as long as you had read the Al Qaeda manual.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/24/2013753.htm


From Information Clearing House

A belief that Iraq is unwinnable, fears that Afghanistan could go the same way and an overwhelming feeling that the government has not looked after the Armed Forces properly in return for the sacrifices they make.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6961380.stm


From Information Clearing House

America's top military brass appeared at odds Friday over the course of the Iraq War as outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace reportedly stood ready to recommend a major reduction next year in troop strength while a key ground commander warned that such a move would be "a giant step backwards."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294421,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Pace

A Republican senator's call to begin a troop withdrawal from Iraq is a wake-up call for President George W. Bush as he fights to keep his policy from unraveling, but it may not immediately sway votes in Congress for a pullout.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24364788.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

Brig Gen John Bednarek, who commands forces in Diyala province, told CNN that "democratic institutions are not necessarily the way ahead in the long-term future".

http://snipurl.com/1px4b


From Information Clearing House

A senior US general warned Thursday of "sensational" attacks during the upcoming Ramadan period in Iraq directed at swaying perceptions of a key upcoming US report on progress in the war there.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=21853


From Information Clearing House



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

By Don Chapman

So what might this history mean for America and Iraq?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18250.htm


"When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order." : Winston Churchill - 1922

Chris Christoff writes in the Detroit Free Press, "Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, said as the Iraqi government flounders, he's changed his original support for the Bush administration's stated goal of molding a democratic Iraq as a means to stabilize the Middle East."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082407H.shtml



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

The editors of The New York Times write: "Blaming the prime minister of Iraq, rather than the president of the United States, for the spectacular failure of American policy, is cynical politics, pure and simple. It is neither fair nor helpful in figuring out how to end America's biggest foreign policy fiasco since Vietnam."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082407C.shtml



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