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"Every time a soldier from Oregon dies in the Iraq war, Senator Gordon Smith calls up the mother or surviving spouse, and commiserates. His son killed himself four years ago, he tells them. He knows what it's like to lose a boy. He has made this call 103 times," says Timothy Egan.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070107D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Senator+Gordon+Smith

The new man in No 10 was a fervent supporter of the war. The only way to signal a fresh start is by taking Britain out of Iraq.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2114468,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Standing on the shattered bodies

Normally VIP visits to Iraq are kept under wraps, at least until the day of the trip. But Senator John McCain Friday night said he's going to Iraq next week.

http://tinyurl.com/2ok37z


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

Pelosi, Reid say House and Senate will vote in July -- won't wait for report on surge.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/30/MNGSCQONU11.DTL


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

By Gilad Atzmon

What a great day for peace enthusiasts! A new envoy to the Middle East has been appointed for the Quartet, and it's no other than the former British PM, Tony Blair. Blair, the man who gave the Israelis the green light to flatten Beirut.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17945.htm

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Is it a bird? A plane? No, it's the Quartet's fifth horseman
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2115414,00.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17956.htm


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gilad+Atzmon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman

By Walter C. Uhler

In order to support their BIG LIE about the grave and growing threat to the U.S. posed by Iraq, the Bush/Cheney regime not only pressured the intelligence community to produce conclusions that supported its own preconceptions about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaida, it also embellished and lied about that intelligence. Moreover, it fabricated damning intelligence where the intelligence community found none.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17946.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+C.+Uhler

With the immigration bill dead, troop-withdrawal deadlines vetoed and other high-profile initiatives stalled, Democratic leaders closed six months in control of Congress mired in low approval ratings and plotting a legislative blitz on an issue they once tried to escape: Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063007Y.shtml



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

"A CBS News poll shows Americans are increasingly dissatisfied with the Iraq war, President Bush and the Congress, as well as the overall direction of the country."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063007C.shtml

"American soldiers rolled into Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City slum on Saturday in search of Iranian-linked militants and as many as 26 Iraqis were killed in what a US officer described as 'an intense firefight,'" writes Hamid Ahmed of the Associated Press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063007A.shtml

Video

Official policy promises an eventual departure, while warning of the dire consequences of a "premature" withdrawal. But while Washington equivocates, facts on the ground tell another story. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, and author Chalmers Johnson, are discovering that military bases in Iraq are being consolidated from over a hundred to a handful of "megabases" with lavish amenities.

http://tinyurl.com/2qety2



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson