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From her office in clouded cuckoo land

Clinton, seeking the Democratic nomination for president, praised the work that soldiers have done in Iraq but described the government there as "on vacation," leaving American troops in the middle of a sectarian war.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/08/21/clinton_0821.html



Standing on the bodies: Thompson tells veterans

U.S. should remain in Iraq, rebuild military for global fight: Undeclared presidential candidate Fred Thompson says the U.S. needs to rebuild its military to fight global terrorism because leaders "took a holiday" at the end of the Cold War.

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=6962107


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Across the political spectrum in Washington, members of Congress are now demanding that the Iraqi government meet certain benchmarks, which presumably would show that it's really in charge. But there's a big problem with the most important benchmark: the oil law. It is extremely unpopular in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/378t34


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Amira El Ahl, Volkhard Windfuhr and Bernhard Zand report for Der Spiegel: "Iraq, a country still shaken by daily violence, is currently the scene of what is likely the biggest refugee disaster since the displacement of Palestinians in the Arab-Israeli War in 1948 ... They are not just the country's poor and desperate. Many are the elites of a nation that already lost many of its best and brightest during decades of tyranny and economic embargoes."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082107D.shtml

Aaron Glantz reports for OneWorld US, "Members of a leading Iraq war veterans' organization voted this weekend to launch a campaign encouraging US troops to refuse to fight."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082107N.shtml



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Mesabi Daily News
by Linda Tyssen

08/20/07

A grieving family stood at the grave that would hold their beloved boy. Men in uniform fired a salute, taps sounded. The flag on his coffin was folded and placed in the arms of his mother. At his funeral she had kissed his face one last time. And so, on Aug. 1 in the Virginia veterans plot, a soldier of the war in Iraq was laid to rest, his troubled soul finally at peace. Noah Charles Pierce, age 23, had taken his own life. Noah Pierce suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. He knew it. His family knew it. Friends knew it. They tried desperately to help him. But to no avail...

http://virginiamn.com/mdn/?section_id=70&story_id=210121


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Tens of thousands of Iraqis held a massive demonstration against the American forces' savage raids on the peaceful parts ofBaghdad Monday morning.

http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=242733&n=36


From Information Clearing House

By Buddhika Jayamaha

Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18212.htm



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Colin Brown reports for The Independent UK, "Sir Menzies Campbell has backed calls by military chiefs for British forces to pull out of Iraq because they can 'achieve nothing' by staying."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082007N.shtml