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David Morgan reports for Reuters, "More than half of top US foreign policy experts oppose Bush's troop increase as a strategy for stabilizing Baghdad, saying the plan has harmed US national security."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

Lolita C. Baldor reports for The Associated Press, "Sapped by nearly six years of war, the Army has nearly exhausted its fighting force and its options if the Bush administration decides to extend the Iraq buildup beyond next spring."

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

MILITARY advisers in the United States have warned that British troops face an "ugly and embarrassing" withdrawal from the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

http://tinyurl.com/2lssdq



British forces useless in Basra, say officials

"The short version is that the Brits have lost Basra, if indeed they ever had it. Britain is in a difficult spot because of the lack of political support at home, but for a long time - more - they have not been engaged in Basra and have tried to avoid casualties.

http://tinyurl.com/2fep6o


From Information Clearing House



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

Yesterday a radio interviewer in South Africa asked me what had been the response of the "mainstream media in the United States" to Just Foreign Policy's ongoing estimate of the Iraqi death toll from the U.S. invasion and occupation, which on Thursday crossed the one million mark.

http://tinyurl.com/2vup5p


From Information Clearing House

The New York Times columnist Frank Rich writes: "Back in those heady days of late summer 2002, Andrew Card, then the president's chief of staff, told The New York Times why the much-anticipated push for war in Iraq hadn't yet arrived. 'You don't introduce new products in August,' he said, sounding like the mouthpiece for the Big Three automakers he once was. Sure enough, with an efficiency Detroit can only envy, the manufactured aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds rolled off the White House assembly line after Labor Day like clockwork."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081907C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+Card
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Frank+Rich

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/19/3270

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Seven Returning Troops: "The War As We Saw It"

In The New York Times, seven soldiers write: "Viewed from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. 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. As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081907A.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/19/3266/



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

The humanitarian disaster in Iraq is being compounded by a mass exodus of their medical staff fleeing chronic violence and lawlessness. A report by Oxfam International shows the lack of doctors and nurses is fracturing a health system on the brink of collapse.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2874108.ece


From Information Clearing House

Remember the Americans came with a precise agenda: 1) Regime Change 2) The Division of Iraq along ethnic lines. Shias, Sunnis and Kurds. Kurds are majority Sunnis by the way.

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2007/08/puppets-on-string.html



A Corner of "Peace"

So this is the price of your famous Peace. This was the plan of your Peace. This was the orchestrated diabolical blueprint for your Peace.

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2007/09/corner-of-peace.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Layla+Anwar

Arwa Damon reports for CNN on Iraqi women who "are too afraid and ashamed to show their faces or have their real names used. They have been driven to sell their bodies to put food on the table for their children -- for as little as $8 a day."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081707E.shtml