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The Bush administration is becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of an imminent British withdrawal from southern Iraq and would prefer UK troops to remain for another year or two.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2143879,00.html


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

Protests broke out in al-Tareq district in eastern Baghdad's predominately Shiite Sadr City, with demonstrators carrying the coffins of people killed during a US air strike on Wednesday morning, Iraqi state-run al-Iraqiya TV reported.

http://tinyurl.com/yr5ob2


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By Marcus Karr

How elegantly simple and effectively deceptive the method of revolution really is! All it takes is to convince the people of a serious and imminent threat, and then, with panic and fear sown in their hearts, they will hand over their liberties without thought or hesitation. The 'serious and imminent threat' of the hour, which is naught but hallucinated menace, has heretofore been of the strange and external variety: 'They' are 'over there', where we must meet them with courage and conviction, lest 'they' come 'over here' once again, and do us real harm. This myth has served its purpose well enough - we are occupying Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18144.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marcus+Karr

By Mike Whitney

The War Dept.'s latest fraud appeared in this week's newspapers under the ominous-sounding headline: "US Kills Mastermind of Iraq Shrine" The article is similar to hundreds of other stories we've seen in the passed few years boasting of the murder of an "alleged" terrorist kingpin whose evil deeds have prevented democracy from flourishing in Iraq. Oh, please.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18140.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

By Chris Hedges

The war in Iraq is about to get worse -- much worse. The Democrats' decision to let the war run its course, while they frantically wash their hands of responsibility, means that it will sputter and stagger forward until the mission collapses. This will be sudden. The security of the Green Zone, our imperial city, will be increasingly breached. Command and control will disintegrate. And we will back out of Iraq humiliated and defeated.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18141.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Hedges

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/08/3052



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Naiman

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/08/3061/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aaron+Glantz

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6555/

Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The United States has more troops in Iraq now than at any previous time in the war, with around 162,000 members of the military in the country, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07328662.htm


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