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Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Obama’s non-withdrawal withdrawal plan

CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd

02/25/09

It would be superfluous in us to point out that a plan to ‘end’ a war which includes the continued garrisoning of up to 50,000 troops in a hostile land is, in reality, a continuation of that war, not its cessation. To produce such a plan and claim that it ‘ends’ a war is the precise equivalent of, say, relieving one’s bladder on the back of one’s neighbor and telling him that the liquid is actually life-giving rain. But this is exactly what we are going to get from the Obama Administration in Iraq...

http://counterpunch.org/floyd02252009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Change? What Change?

U.S. To Leave Residual Force Of 50,000 In Iraq After "Pullout"

By ANNE GEARAN

"I think a limited number of those that remain will conduct combat operations against terrorists, assisting Iraqi security forces," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said. "By and large you're talking about people who we would classify as enablers, support troops."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22102.htm

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Military Families Speak Out (MFSO): Obama: Bring All Our Troops Home From Iraq Now!
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/26-4

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Tell the truth about the War on Terror
http://www.avaaz.org/en/end_the_war_on_terror/?cl=189533180&v=2913



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anne+Gearan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Military+Families+Speak+Out

Their number remains "worryingly high" and the majority are suffering from food shortages, substandard and expensive accommodation, while work is scarce.

http://tinyurl.com/bch2yh


From Information Clearing House



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

Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service: "'We only want a normal life,' says Um Qasim, sitting in a bombed-out building in Baghdad. She and others around have been saying that for years. Um Qasim lives with 13 family members in a brick shanty on the edge of a former military intelligence building in the Mansoor district of Baghdad."

http://www.truthout.org/021909WA



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

Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "Although Oates did not explicitly address the issue of drawdown plans, he has been known to favour a more rapid withdrawal from Iraq than Petraeus and Odierno for some time, according to a military officer who served under Odierno and is familiar with Oates's views. 'His belief is that we need to get out of the country and let the Iraqis take responsibility for their areas.'"

http://www.truthout.org/021709S



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Odierno
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdraw+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "It is not the threat of violence that weighs on the people of Iraq. It is the omnipresent occurrence of violence that has resulted in the desperate nation wide chant, 'We are tired. All we want is for normal life to return.'"

http://www.truthout.org/021609B



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo32.html



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

The company spent $75 million digging a pipeline under the Tigris river at a location where the army later decided nobody should have tried. This was part of the $7 billion (no bid) contract to restore Iraq oil exports, which has been a disaster. Then there are the disposable canteen plates that cost the American taxpayer $28 each.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0213/1233867934795.html


From Information Clearing House



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Veterans for Peace: Veteran Organization: "Congress Must Face Escalating Military Suicides. Bring the troops home now!"

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/12-15

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The suicide rush

CounterPunch
by Kathy Sanborn

02/14/09

More soldiers than ever are committing suicide, and the Army apparently has no ready explanation. The top brass are perplexed. One Army official said, ‘This is terrifying … We do not know what is going on.’ I can tell you what’s going on. American troops are sick and tired of fighting two bogus wars that seem to have no end in sight. Twenty-four soldiers killed themselves in January 2009, eight more than died that month from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan...

http://counterpunch.org/sanborn02132009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+suicide
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Veterans+for+Peace
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Sanborn

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/02/12-4



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Randerson

Dahr Jamail, TomDispatch.com: "Driving through Fallujah, once the most rebellious Sunni city in this country, I saw little evidence of any kind of reconstruction underway. At least 70 percent of that city's structures were destroyed during massive US military assaults in April, and again in November 2004, and more than four years later, in the 'new Iraq,' the city continues to languish."

http://www.truthout.org/021209R

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Where U.S. 'Reconstruction' Funds Are Really Going

Fallujah remains devastated, even as the U.S. military delivers shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills to the sheiks in charge.

http://tinyurl.com/cfcljt


From Information Clearing House



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