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Freshman Class Message: Don't Back Down
http://ga3.org/ct/Pp20pgF1Mz-N/

Borosage Plays Hardball On Iraq
http://ga3.org/ct/P120pgF1Mz-_/



Deeper Into Iraq

The Iraq War remains the hottest emotional issue at the Take Back America conference.

http://ga3.org/ct/Pd20pgF1Mz-A/



They Can't Ignore Us...

Conservative news service runs a dispatch on Take Back America.
http://ga3.org/ct/Q120pgF1Mz-2/



Don't Ask, Don't Tell At Take Back America

Meet Antonio Agnone--Marine, IED-defuser and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" victim.
http://ga3.org/ct/P720pgF1Mz-M/



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

Seattle Post Intelligencer
by staff

06/18/07

What can be salvaged for those children is uncertain. But while we’re liberating their country and spreading democracy there, perhaps we should give some thought as to what sort of future we’re mapping out for Iraq by leaving its people with a population of damaged children who will one day become broken, angry adults with clear memories of how they came to be so...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/320052_iraqkidsed.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent [UK]

06/19/07

Tony Blair has been told that his foreign policy of intervening in the world’s troublespots to uphold democracy is in tatters because of the disaster in Iraq.Senior Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs challenged the Prime Minister over whether his “liberal intervention” strategy would survive after he leaves office next week because other countries were turning against it. They clashed with Mr Blair when he was quizzed for the last time by the Commons Liaison Committee, which is composed of the chairman of all the select committees.

Mike Gapes, the Labour chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said the case for intervening in other countries in future would be “discredited and undermined” by the experience in Iraq. He added that Mr Blair’s strategy was now “out of step” with opinion around the world”...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2675774.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

FBI informant imprisoned and treated like an Iraqi for 97 days.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19226700/from/RSS/


From Information Clearing House

Iraq has emerged as the world's second most unstable country, behind Sudan, more than four years after President George W. Bush ordered the U.S. invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, according to a survey released on Monday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18374264.htm


From Information Clearing House

As Noor Muhammad, 36, was cooking dinner for her family in their Baghdad home two months ago, she heard her son scream from the living room. He had just seen his father dead on TV.

http://tinyurl.com/2ptsvn



US Soldier Sodomised Female Iraqi Detainee

A Seymour Hersh interview with General Anthony Taguba, who investigated Abu Ghraib, confirms details of the abuse not previously public. It also confirms that the torture was sanctioned from the top.

http://tinyurl.com/3689e2


From Information Clearing House



What's an Iraqi life worth?

How about an Iraqi car? For the U.S. military in Iraq, it may be roughly the same.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17899.htm



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The man who led the initial American effort to reconstruct Iraq after the war believes the country is on the brink of a genocidal civil war and its government will fall apart unless the US changes course and allows a three-way federal structure. He has also urged talks with Iran and other regional players.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061807A.shtml

The dark underside of the world's fastest growing refugee crisis is the indelible scarring of millions of Iraqi children, alarming numbers of whom have witnessed gruesome violence and have had close family members murdered, a new report from World Vision finds.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/aiddevelopment/Report_Violence_scarring_Iraqi_children_3116.shtml

Simmering in the summer heat, Iraqis now have a dream called electricity. It is a part of the bigger dream of reconstruction that collapsed. On all measurable levels, the infrastructure is worse than under the former regime of Saddam Hussein, even when it was crippled by the harshest economic sanctions in modern history. Iraqis lack security, jobs, potable water, and these days when it really pinches, electricity.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/newsanalysis/A_dream_called_electricity.shtml