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AlterNet
by Arianna Huffington

06/13/07

With each passing day, Washington, D.C. is turning into the Land That Time Forgot. While the rest of the country is dealing with the here and now — exemplified by Bush’s puny approval ratings and this new poll showing rural voters turning against the GOP’s handling of Iraq — the Beltway’s Democratic dinosaurs are acting like it’s 2002. For them, Bush still has credibility on Iraq, Democrats still need to tread lightly in opposing the war for fear of alienating red state and swing voters, and Iraq is still a right vs left issue...

http://www.alternet.org/story/53951/


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MSNBC

06/14/07

The struggle to regain control of Baghdad crossed into its fifth month Thursday with the last of 30,000 additional U.S. soldiers about to join an increasingly bitter fight. The security operation has failed to curb violence nationwide, and the number of American troops killed in the capital is on the rise. But some potential bright spots have emerged in Baghdad’s most lawless districts and troubled regions outside the capital: among them, a U.S. gambit to arm and train Sunni insurgents as proxy fighters against groups inspired by al-Qaida...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19232343/


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Roseburg News-Review

06/14/07

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid caused a stir Thursday when he said Gen. Peter Pace failed in his job of providing Congress a candid assessment on the Iraq war and that he was concerned Gen. David Petraeus might be guilty of the same. Democrats typically have shied from stinging comments on military officers, instead focusing on President Bush and administration policies in Iraq. Republicans responded vigorously to the change against Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq...

http://tinyurl.com/3y23jm


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TOP US congressional Democrats bluntly told President George W. Bush today that his Iraq troop "surge" policy was a failure, as the Pentagon submitted a report saying early results of the strategy were mixed.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21903136-38198,00.html


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Joseph L. Galloway writes: "The war in Iraq grinds on without much regard for an American president's pipedreams of victory, a Congressional majority's impotent attempts to stop it and most of the American people's wish that it would just go away. More than one student of history has looked hard at where we, as a nation, are today and said: 'Late Rome.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061407E.shtml



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With the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq in its fifth year, one leading study estimates that more than 655,000 Iraqis have been killed -- with no end to the violence yet in sight. Left behind are loved ones who continue to mourn their loss, as well as what might have been.

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38065



Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War On Iraq - At Least 655,000 +
http://tinyurl.com/usq4x

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 3513
http://icasualties.org/oif/

The War in Iraq Costs
$434,237,842,266

See the cost in your community
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Mike Ferner: Collateral genocide

Of course our government didn't intend to commit genocide, it just sort of happened. The Iraqis kept getting in the way while we were trying to complete the mission. Mistakes were made as we were building democracy, but surely no genocide was intended.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2072.shtml


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Iraq's political leaders have failed to reach agreements on nearly every law that the Americans have demanded as benchmarks, despite heavy pressure from Congress.

http://tinyurl.com/yqhcbf


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Anti-war Senate Democrats, admitted they had erred by making supporters think they could end the war.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070612/ts_alt_afp/usiraqpolitics


From Information Clearing House

By Glenn David Cox

A new and perhaps last chapter has begun, new in the names and places but as old as war itself. The military is well aware of the coming checkmate and are fired for their candor in saying so only the media and the madman soldier on. Fighting on not to achieve victory or even to forestall defeat but to sacrifice the blood of innocents on all sides but to preserve protect and defend the fragile ego of the leader.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17871.htm



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