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Khody Akhavi writes for the Inter Press Service that the narrative of the Bush administration's "military adventure in Iraq" is one that paints the conflict as "a struggle between the US-led Coalition forces and the archetypal terrorist threat posed by the shadowy 'radicals and extremists' of al Qaeda, often to the exclusion of other political actors in the mainly Sunni insurgency."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070607R.shtml



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Gen. William Odom
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/7/2325



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The insistence that terror attacks have nothing to do with Britain's actions in the Muslim world only makes them harder to stop.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2118959,00.html


From Information Clearing House

U.N. refugee officials accused donor countries on Friday of leaving Syria and Jordan "in the lurch" by failing to offer aid as thousands of conflict victims flee Iraq each day, overwhelming hospitals and schools.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06413940.htm


From Information Clearing House

Video

Iraq Veterans Against the War recount their personal stories of their military experience and how they became part of the veterans' antiwar movement.

http://www.traprockpeace.org/traprock_video/
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By Layla Anwar

They blindfolded him, handcuffed him and shoved him in a car. His ordeal had started. His torture odyssey was about to unfold ...

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Norman Solomon writes for Truthout: "Many of America's most prominent journalists want us to forget what they were saying and writing more than four years ago to boost the invasion of Iraq. Now, they tiptoe around their own roles in hyping the war and banishing dissent to the media margins ... More than four years - and at least several hundred thousand Iraqi civilian deaths - later, the most reliable epidemiology available confirms that those claims were more than misleading. They were fundamentally out of touch with human reality."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070607M.shtml



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US diplomats in Iraq have become increasingly fearful over their personal safety after recent mortar attacks inside the Green Zone. A large number of mistakes, delays and building and safety blunders in the $592 million US Embassy construction project in Baghdad may leave them vulnerable in the coming months, The New York Times reports.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070607K.shtml



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ABC News

07/05/07

President George W. Bush’s Iraq war policy continued to hemorrhage support in the U.S. Senate as another senior Republican called on Thursday for a new strategy that would start to bring troops home. A day after Bush appealed to Americans to be more patient with the unpopular war, six-term New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici, who is up for re-election next year, urged a new course. … Domenici joined the ranks of influential Republican lawmakers who recently have broken with Bush over the 4-year-old conflict in Iraq, declaring themselves unable to keep backing a war that has no end in sight after the deaths of 3,590 U.S. troops...

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3350223


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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GOP Congressman Joins Sen. Domenici in Breaking With White House on War

"Albuquerque Rep. John Doolittle, a conservative California Congressman, has joined others in his party rapidly deserting the president on the Iraq war," reports Editor and Publisher. The New York Times reports, "Support among Republicans for President Bush's Iraq policy eroded further on Thursday as another senior lawmaker, Senator Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, broke with the White House just as Congressional Democrats prepared to renew their challenge to the war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070607J.shtml



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