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"Iraq fails to meet key US political and security benchmarks in an upcoming report to Congress that seems certain to increase calls from lawmakers and the restive public to withdraw US troops," reports Agence France-Presse.

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

Tom Paine
by Don Monkerud

07/06/07

Rather than beginning at the beginning of the discredited ’save the world from WMD’ invasion of Iraq, step back one year ago, when Bush went on the offensive to help Republicans win midterm elections. Back then, Bush claimed the capture of al-Zarqawi (remember him?) was ‘the turning point’ in Iraq and the tide was turning in favor of the U.S. Not the first time for a tidal change since the infamous aircraft carrier ‘victory speech,’ but a starting point for an evaluation. … Despite horrifically bad news pouring in from Iraq, the president and the GOP declared the U.S. would be ‘victorious’ because the troops knew ‘their cause was noble.’ GOP House Speaker Hastert declared, Democrats lacked ‘the will to win,’ suggested they were unpatriotic, and guaranteed that 2006 was ‘a year of significant transition’ in Iraq...

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Salon
by Joe Conason

07/09/07

It was predictable that endangered Republicans in the Senate, fearing punishment by angry Americans for their complicity in the Iraq war, would seek to escape the political vortex created by the sinking Bush administration. They gaze upon the abandoned shipwreck of the once invincible presidential campaign of their colleague John McCain, and suddenly realize that they too can no longer ignore the grim message of the pollsters. Even entrenched figures such as Pete Domenici, R-N.M., with decades of seniority, know they can no longer continue to support President Bush’s escalation and expect to be reelected...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/07/09/iraq_study_group/



Iraq war conservative skepticism

Free Market News Network
by Tibor R. Machan

07/06/07

Slowly but surely quite a few early supporters or fellow travelers joined in and by now many conservatives such as Senator Chuck Hegel and William F. Buckley, Jr. have gone on record opposing President George W. Bush in his refusal to relinquish his irrational objective of building a functional constitutional democracy in Iraq. These are, it bears keeping in mind, not a bunch of America hating Leftists. These are men and women who came to realize that there is no rational justification for America to be fighting this completely mad war, a war against an enemy that amounts to, as I recently put it, a deadly heavy fog with no clearly identifiable substance that could be construed as a disposal enemy...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/117/8139/tibor.asp?nid=8139&wid=117


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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So-called "oil contracts" have been on the table of the Iraqi Parliament for months, and the fluff of lies printed about them in U..S. media is nauseating.

http://www.counterpunch.org/gerard07072007.html


From Information Clearing House



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"Sensing momentum from the new Republican defections, Mr. Reid and other leading Democrats intend to force a series of votes over the next two weeks on proposals to withdraw troops and limit spending. Democrats are increasingly confident they can assemble majority opposition to administration policies," according to Carl Hulse and Jeff Zeleny, The New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070807B.shtml



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More than four years after The New York Times published a series of news stories that arguably helped pave the way toward a US led invasion of Iraq, the country's newspaper of record, in a sobering Sunday editorial, has called for an end to the Iraq war. In stating its position, the Times editorial says, "President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have used demagoguery and fear to quell Americans' demands for an end to this war. They say withdrawing will create bloodshed and chaos and encourage terrorists. Actually, all of that has already happened - the result of this unnecessary invasion and the incompetent management of this war. It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070807Z.shtml

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NY Times says 'time for US to leave Iraq' but doesn't really
mean it
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6427/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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U.S. eager and it shows in Iraq

The U.S. command in Baghdad this week ballyhooed the killing of a key al Qaeda leader but later admitted that the military had declared him dead a year ago.

http://tinyurl.com/27vcz4


From Information Clearing House

According to a new report by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, "in the first half of this fiscal year, the Defense Department's "average monthly obligations for contracts and pay is running about $12 billion per month, well above the $8.7 billion in FY2006."

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/06/iraq-war-costs-could-top-14-trillion/


From Information Clearing House

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi

Video

Shortages; lack of electricity; potable water; tanks rolling through the streets night and day; gunfire and explosions. Iraqi health care in shambles. 200 bodies turn up daily in the Baghdad morgue. For Iraqis, it's 9/11 every day.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17979.htm



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