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Noam N. Levey and Alexandra Zavis of The Los Angeles Times report, "As the Bush administration struggles to convince lawmakers that its Iraq war strategy is working, it has stopped reporting to Congress a key quality-of-life indicator in Baghdad: how long the power stays on."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072707E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+N.+Levey

"We're hard upon the dog days of August," writes Joseph L. Galloway of McClatchy Newspapers. "Members of the US Congress and the Iraqi parliament will soon slither away to the shade of cooler rocks, and President Bush will no doubt head off to Crawford to take his frustrations out on some brush with a chainsaw. Meanwhile, in Iraq, the 60,000 American combat troops who daily patrol the most dangerous streets and roads in the world will carry on fighting, dying and bleeding in the broiling sun where temperatures nudge the 130-degree mark and 40 pounds of body armor and Kevlar helmet plus weapon and ammunition weigh more with every step an Infantryman takes."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072707A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+L.+Galloway

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0726-16.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permanent+bases

Another Day in the Empire
by Kurt Nimmo

07/25/07

It appears this nonsense is working — at least a little. According to ‘recent opinion polls, the president has had some recent success in making a case to voters for continuing the war in Iraq. He has insisted both that success is possible and that failure would be catastrophic, in part because Al Qaeda in Iraq might then turn its attentions elsewhere,’ for instance a day care in Killdeer, North Dakota...

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=937


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kurt+Nimmo

http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/72/The_Death_Mask_of_War.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

by Pierre Tristam

07/26/07

We’ve known about the Bush administration’s Fortress of Folly for a while. It’s one of Iraq’s endless occupation-bred, American-made scandals: the $600 million American ‘embassy compound’ redrawing Baghdad’s skyline along the Tigris River — and American designs on the Middle East. But like every scandal with this administration — from sleeping at the wheel of 9/11 to nonexistent WMDs to Abu Ghraib to the most corrupt Justice Department in history thanks to torture-apologist Alberto Gonzales — the embassy folly continues to evade the din of accountability. A new Congressional Research Service report shows just what the major media are missing, and how illustrative of American imperiousness the compound is becoming...

http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/07/cn072607.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baghdad+embassy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pierre+Tristam

"It hasn't been decided yet, it will come up for consideration within the next couple of months, I suspect, but I am fairly confident that we should be able to achieve that position in the second-half of the year," Chief of Defence Staff Jock Stirrup said in an interview on BBC radio.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKL2646288520070726?rpc=401&


From Information Clearing House

DENMARK has withdrawn most of the 430 troops it has stationed in Iraq earlier than expected, a report said today quoting the Danish military.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22137286-401,00.html


From Information Clearing House

After one of his personal bodyguards was shot dead by a Blackwater USA security contractor last Christmas Eve, Iraqi Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi assured the U.S. ambassador that he was trying to keep the incident out of the public eye.

http://tinyurl.com/2z24u2


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors

Media Spin on Iraq
We're Leaving (Sort of)

By Norman Solomon

The matter of U.S. bases in Iraq is a prime example of how events on Capitol Hill have scant effects on war machinery in the context of out-of-control presidential power. "The House voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to bar permanent United States military bases in Iraq," the New York Times reports. But the war makers in the nation's capital still hold the whip that keeps lashing the dogs of war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18077.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+bases+in+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon