World-News

By Tina Richards

I attended the MoveOn.org rally on Tuesday night where Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid discussed how they were going to "end the war" and "bring our troops home" with the Levin-Reed Amendment. When I asked if they meant all the troops, I was quickly told to, "shut up" and muscled aside by security.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18078.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tina+Richards

As the Bush administration promotes the idea that Al Qaeda is the enemy in Iraq, Bill Moyers Journal analyzes the facts on the ground to explore who the US is really fighting.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072607U.shtml



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

"The White House may have killed attempts to revive the much-heralded Iraq Study Group, but the Bush administration will still face a tough, independent evaluation of the progress in Iraq - from one of its own agencies," reports Robin Wright for The Washington Post.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072607C.shtml

Anne Flaherty of The Associated Press writes: "A leading Democratic House Iraq war critic said Wednesday he'll soon push legislation that would order US troop withdrawals to begin in two months and predicted that Republicans will swing behind it this time."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507S.shtml



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0725-11.htm

--------

House Votes to Ban Permanent Bases in Iraq

The Gavel reports: "Today, the House passed HR 2929, Banning Permanent US Bases in Iraq. This bill states that it is the policy of the United States not to establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing a permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507T.shtml



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

Ann Scott Tyson reports for The Washington Post: "Mike Helms, 31, a civilian counterintelligence expert with the Army's 902nd Military Intelligence Group, had been sent to Iraq in 2004 to help fill a critical intelligence gap in the area known as the Sunni Triangle. While in Iraq, he lived with soldiers and ate military rations, took fire from mortar rounds and small arms, and clocked hundreds of miles manning a machine gun on the back of a Humvee. Nevertheless, his status as an Army civilian would leave him stranded in the aftermath of the June 16, 2004 attack, when the bomb hit his Humvee so hard it blew his M-60 off its turret. In the months that followed, Helms recalled, he was denied vital care for his wounds."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507O.shtml

The New York Times writes: "The American people have only one question left about Iraq: What is President Bush's plan for a timely and responsible exit? That is the essential precondition for salvaging broader American interests in the Middle East and for waging a more effective fight against al Qaeda in its base areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan. And it is exactly the question that Mr. Bush, his top generals and his diplomats so stubbornly and damagingly refuse to answer."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=exit+strategy

Just six percent of those polled said they felt more safe, according to the Newspoll survey for GetUp, a political pressure group that claims nearly 190,000 members.

http://tinyurl.com/27vd8t


From Information Clearing House



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

The draft, developed by Gen. David Petraeus' staff, lays out a series of security-related goals over two years, envisioning U.S. troops in the "war zone" through 2009.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24204445.htm


From Information Clearing House



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