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by Dahr Jamail, TomDispatch.com

Someone who has experienced war-torn Iraq cannot return to the United States without being followed.

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from Reason to Freedom
by CJ Stone

07/12/07

[A]s we heard in the recent National Intelligence Estimate, al-Qaeda are now better positioned to strike the West than it has been since September 11th 2001. Al-Qaeda is ‘operationally stronger than a year ago’ and has ‘regrouped to an extent not seen since 2001,’ we were told. ‘They are showing greater and greater ability to plan attacks in Europe and the United States. …’ In other words, despite over six years of bombings and tactics designed to dismantle it; despite the war on terror and the attacks on our civil liberties; despite Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay; despite extraordinary rendition and the torture that goes with it; despite possibly up 655,000 dead in Iraq alone (most of them Muslims); despite all of this, al-Qaeda are stronger than ever. Kind of makes you wonder what the last six years have been about doesn’t it?

http://www.reasontofreedom.com/a_war_for_oil.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Ben Lando for United Press International reports: "US President Bush may be right: Iraq's oil law, although highly controversial, could be a 'benchmark for reconciliation.' When Iraq's council of ministers last week suddenly approved the law, critics of various stripes united in opposition."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071207S.shtml



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But Mr Bush rejected calls for a withdrawal of US forces, saying it would be disastrous.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6896789.stm


From Information Clearing House

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House Votes to Force Bush to Withdraw US Troops From Iraq

David S. Rosen reports for Bloomberg.com: "The House of Representatives voted to require the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by April 2008, defying President George W. Bush's veto threat and his request today for time to allow his war strategy to succeed. The chamber's 223-201 vote to begin a withdrawal within 120 days occurred hours after Bush released an interim progress report that said the Iraqi government has failed so far to meet several key political goals even as a military offensive has improved security."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071307K.shtml



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President Bush, defending his troop surge in Iraq, insisted Thursday that the insurgents attacking US troops in Iraq "are the same ones who attacked us on Sept. 11."

http://tinyurl.com/ysjo2g



Edwards: Bush's Iraq/September 11 remarks 'border on the delisonal'

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards slammed President Bush's connecting of insurgents in Iraq with the terrorists who attacked the US on Sept. 11, 2001, saying the president's remarks "border on the delusional" and accusing him of ignoring his role in allowing al Qaeda to gain strength in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/yts2ff



Democrats Slam "Failed" Iraq Policy

While Bush Finds "Cause For Optimism" In Report Citing Failure On 8 Of 18 Iraq Goals.
http://cbs11tv.com/politics/local_story_193162549.html


From Information Clearing House



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Top US intelligence officials gave a bleak appraisal Wednesday of Iraq's chances of stemming political and religious strife and so helping the US administration to declare success in the nation.

http://tinyurl.com/2eweza



CIA Said Instability Seemed 'Irreversible'

"The government is unable to govern," Hayden concluded. "We have spent a lot of energy and treasure creating a government that is balanced, and it cannot function."

http://tinyurl.com/ytaynq


From Information Clearing House

By Leonard Doyle in Washington

Interviews with US veterans show for the first time the pattern of brutality in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18004.htm



The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness

By Chris Hedges and Laila al-Arian

Over the past several months The Nation has interviewed fifty combat veterans of the Iraq War from around the United States in an effort to investigate the effects of the four-year-old occupation on average Iraqi civilians. These combat veterans, some of whom bear deep emotional and physical scars, and many of whom have come to oppose the occupation, gave vivid, on-the-record accounts. They described a brutal side of the war rarely seen on television screens or chronicled in newspaper accounts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18007.htm



U.S. soldiers 'are murdering Iraqi civilians in cold blood'

They emerge in a report in U.S. journal The Nation as reckless and gung-ho - and sometimes criminally violent - as they try to frame innocent Iraqis as insurgents.

http://tinyurl.com/yv6yro


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=combat+veterans
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laila+al-Arian

Video - Should only be watched by a mature audience

"Anyone with a rag on his head is fair game."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18005.htm

Nancy A. Youssef reports US soldiers have killed or wounded 429 Iraqi civilians at checkpoints or near patrols and convoys during the past year, according to military statistics compiled in Iraq and obtained by McClatchy Newspapers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071207D.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0712-07.htm



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