World-News

Despite Bush's repeated statements that the report will reflect evaluations by Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, administration officials said it would actually be written by the White House, with inputs from officials throughout the government.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/15/91352/0867



White House may prevent general from testifying publicly on Iraq

If the White House gets its way, the Bush Administration's Sept. 15 progress report on Iraq may be delivered by the U.S. secretaries of state and defense -- and not by top US Iraq General David Petraeus and US Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker in a widely anticipated public congressional briefing.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_House_may_prevent_general_from_0816.html


From Information Clearing House

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"They Attacked Us!"

by Rick Perlstein

The cocked-up "Petraeus" Report that's actually being written by the White House will be delivered on September 11. Can you imagine anything more cynical?

http://ga3.org/ct/-120pgF1dmZz/



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

The Associated Press

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services committee said he was leaving Wednesday for Iraq to tell its leaders that they must accept responsibility for their country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18195.htm



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

The violence destroyed the life of my son while he was still in my uterus," Leila said.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/LRON-763GZF?OpenDocument


From Information Clearing House

U.S. troops will likely be fighting in Iraq when the next president takes office in 2009 and some U.S. forces will need to stay there to deter regional threats, Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13364653.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

Iraq's top Sunni cleric called on the United States on Monday to cut ties with Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, saying his "puppet" government had failed and a U.S. backed political process was at a dead end.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13229150.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

Vizepräsident Cheney, maßgeblicher Motor des Kriegs gegen den Irak, erklärt auf einem auf YouTube veröffentlichten Video aus dem Jahr 1992, welche Folgen ein Sturz des Hussein-Regimes hätte - Er hatte Recht...

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25947/1.html



Waffengeschäfte im Irak

Unkontrollierbar: Der Handel mit Kalaschnikow und Co.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25946/1.html

Newsweek's Christopher Dickey reports, "At least three US government agencies are now investigating the massive 'disappearance' and diversion of weapons Washington intended for Iraqi government forces that instead have spread to militants and organized gangs across" the Middle East.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081307A.shtml

by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

Here's what "progress" in Iraq really means, in lives and dollars.
http://ga3.org/ct/o120pgF1ARKH/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

In an editorial, The New York Times argues "there should be no illusions about trying to continue the war on a reduced scale. It is folly to expect a smaller American force to do in a short time what a much larger force could not do over a very long time. That's exactly what the British are now trying to do. And the results are painfully plain to see."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081307M.shtml

Lincoln Journal Star

08/12/07

There are now nearly as many private contractors in Iraq as there are U.S. soldiers — and about half of them are private security guards equipped with automatic weapons, body armor, helicopters and bullet-proof trucks. They operate with little or no supervision, accountable only to the firms employing them. And as the country has plummeted toward anarchy and civil war, this private army has been accused of indiscriminately firing at American and Iraqi troops and of shooting to death an unknown number of Iraqi citizens who got too close to their heavily armed convoys...

http://tinyurl.com/2lun6k


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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