World-News

The fight against rebels in Iraq could carry on for decades, the head of U.S. forces there has warned.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6285156.stm


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Half of Badiaa's house is now burned down."We will send you a cheque." They laughed and walked away in the night.

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2007/07/short-bedtime-stories.html


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By William Blum

Think of why you are opposed to the war. Is it not largely because of all the unspeakable suffering brought down upon the heads and souls of the poor people of Iraq by the American military? Hillary Clinton couldn't care less about that, literally. She thinks the American military has "succeeded". Has she ever unequivocally labeled the war "illegal" or "immoral"?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17996.htm



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By Emily DePrang

These are the stories of three veterans of this war, told in their voices, edited for flow and efficiency but otherwise unchanged. They bear out the statistics and suggest that even those who are not diagnosably impaired return burdened by experiences they can neither forget nor integrate into their postwar lives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17997.htm



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Sarah Baxter

THE former American secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2½ hours vainly trying to persuade President George W Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today's conflict cannot be resolved by US forces.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17998.htm



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New York Daily News

07/09/07

Debate starts today in the Senate on a defense bill that will show whether the Republican Party is in full revolt against President Bush over the Iraq war. Key members of the GOP have already broken with the President over the war. More than a dozen others have signaled they could demand a new plan after a September status report from the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus. … Six Republicans — many facing reelection in 2008 — also have signed on to a bill that does not set a deadline for withdrawal, as Democrats would like, but aims to lay the groundwork for leaving by March next year. That bill and others are expected to be offered as amendments to the $670 billion defense spending bill the Senate plans to start debating this afternoon...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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In the wake of the Iraqi cabinet's approval of part of a controversial oil law, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviews Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Federation of Oil Unions and a founding member of the oil workers union in Iraq, and Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union and the first woman to head a national union in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/070907LA.shtml



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David E. Sanger reports in The New York Times, "White House officials fear that the last pillars of political support among Senate Republicans for President Bush's Iraq strategy are collapsing around them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070907F.shtml



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