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President George W. Bush's nominee to be top military adviser said on Tuesday the United States will be in Iraq for "years not months" and a Pentagon official said the war was costing even more than expected.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070731/pl_nm/usa_iraq1_dc


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By Layla Anwar

What have Iraqis done to you? Did they invade you? Did they steal your homes? Did they imprison you? Did they torture you? Did they rape you? Did they occupy your lands? Of course, some of you will come and present me with your usual condescending, paternalistic, patronizing lists of political theories, attempting to explain the inexplicable.

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/8-million-iraqis-in-need-of-emergency-aid-video/


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

Mark Seibel and Leila Fadel of McClatchy Newspapers report, "Despite President Bush's recent insistence that al Qaida in Iraq is the principal cause of this country's violence, senior American military officers here [in Baghdad] say Shiite Muslim militias are a bigger problem, and one that will persist even if al Qaida is defeated."

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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2916/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Schwartz

A Very Private War
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2896/

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The Mercenary Revolution: Flush With Profits From the Iraq War

Jeremy Scahill, of the Indypendent, reports: "With almost no congressional oversight and even less public awareness, the Bush administration has more than doubled the size of the U.S. occupation through the use of private war companies. There are now almost 200,000 private 'contractors' deployed in Iraq by Washington. This means that U.S. military forces in Iraq are now outsized by a coalition of billing corporations whose actions go largely unmonitored and whose crimes are virtually unpunished.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081507L.shtml



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MSNBC

07/31/07

A Marine accused of masterminding a plot to kidnap and kill an Iraqi civilian told his squad, ‘Gents, we just got away with murder’ after firing three fatal rounds into the man’s head, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III is charged with murder, kidnapping, conspiracy and other offenses in the April 26, 2006, killing...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20059629/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Wilkes-Barre Times Leader

08/01/07

A soldier testified Tuesday that another in his unit bragged to him about an attack in which a 14-year-old girl was raped and killed and her family slain. Sgt. Anthony Yribe, 23, testified during the second day of the court-martial of Pfc. Jesse Spielman, who is accused of being a lookout while other soldiers assaulted the girl and her family in March 2006...

http://www.timesleader.com/news/ap?articleID=27426


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Los Angeles Times's Ned Parker writes: "Legislators joked and chatted, showing no sense of urgency about breaking a deadlock between Sunni and Shiite Muslims over national reconciliation as Iraq's Parliament held its final session Monday before a monthlong recess."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107S.shtml

An attempt to prevent the press from repeating British concerns about US military tactics in Iraq, including the killing of civilians in Falluja and President Bush's alleged suggestion that the offices of the Arabic satellite TV station al-Jazeera should be bombed, was quashed by the appeal court yesterday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2138236,00.html


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