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Much of the Iraqi capital was without running water Thursday and had been for at least 24 hours, compounding the urban misery in a war zone and the blistering heat at the height of the Baghdad summer.

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From Information Clearing House

At least 1,652 civilians were killed in Iraq in July, one third more than in the previous month, according to figures compiled from three Iraqi ministries and seen by AFP.

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Josh White reports for The Washington Post, "US commanders in Kuwait said Wednesday that they have enormous capability to handle the tens of thousands of troops and their equipment that would stream out of Iraq during a US withdrawal."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080207E.shtml



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

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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6533/


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From ufpj-news

Mike Soraghan reports for The Hill: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reversed herself on Iraq strategy Wednesday, revealing a fight within the Democratic Caucus over how much Democrats should compromise to gain agreement with Republicans on the unpopular war. Progressive Caucus leaders were fuming after they walked into a meeting with Pelosi to find out that she had decided to allow a vote Thursday on an Iraq bill they consider too mild."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080207O.shtml



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Agence France-Presse reports, "The US government cannot account for 190,000 weapons issued to Iraqi security forces." And Sharon Theimer reports for the Associated Press, "The Pentagon sold more than a thousand aircraft parts that could be used on F-14 fighter jets - a plane flown only by Iran - after announcing it had halted sales of such surplus."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080207M.shtml

Green Zone, Red Zone

Tom Engelhardt, writing for The Nation says: "Under the headline, 'A War We Just Might Win,' The New York Times published an op-ed by Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution and Kenneth Pollack, both referred to as critics of the way the Bush administration has 'handled' the war in Iraq. (Pollack had, in fact, been a major cheerleader for the Bush administration's invasion in 2003.) The two claimed that '[w]e are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080107T.shtml



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

The Pentagon cannot fully account for $19.2 billion worth of equipment provided to Iraqi security forces, government auditors said Tuesday.

http://tinyurl.com/39qx7p


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