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The US Won't Go So Quietly

By Seumas Milne

Obama was elected on the back of revulsion at Bush's war, but greater pressure will be needed to force a full withdrawal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21437.htm



It's All Spelled Out in Unpublicized Agreement

Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq

By PATRICK COCKBURN

The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), signed after eight months of rancorous negotiations, is categorical and unconditional. America's bid to act as the world's only super-power and to establish quasi-colonial control of Iraq, an attempt which began with the invasion of 2003, has ended in failure.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21444.htm



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"Meine Regierung brach mir das Herz"

Irak-Veteran André Shepherd ist der erste US-Soldat, der in Deutschland politisches Asyl beantragt hat. Im April 2007 ist er desertiert. In den USA droht ihm dafür sogar die Todesstrafe. Er aber sagt: "Ich kann nicht mehr an diesem völkerrechtswidrigen Krieg teilnehmen." Interview von Viktor Funk und Andreas Schwarzkopf mit Irak-Veteran Shepherd in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 11.12.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/1643743_Meine-Regierung-brach-mir-das-Herz.html


Irak: Besatzungsende nicht in Sicht

Abkommen über Truppenrückzug kaum bindend – wenig Hoffnung auf einen Wandel durch Obama. IMI-Analyse 2007/041 von Joachim Guilliard, erschienen in Ausdruck vom Dezember 2008 http://www.imi-online.de/2008.php3?id=1858

Siehe dazu auch:

Change We Can't: Barack Obama, der Siegeszug der "War-Democrats" und die Re-Vitalisierung der NATO

IMI-Analyse 2008/037b von Jürgen Wagner in Ausdruck vom Dezember 2008 http://www.imi-online.de/2008.php3?id=1857


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Dezember 2008



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Leila Fadel: Explains many factors that led to a decrease in violence in Iraq.
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Agence France-Presse: "Fragments of bricks, engraved with cuneiform characters thousands of years old, lie mixed with the rubble and sandbags left by the US military on the ancient site of Babylon in Iraq. In this place, one of the cradles of civilisation, US troops in 2003-2004 built embankments, dug ditches and spread gravel to hold the fuel reservoirs needed to supply the heliport of Camp Alpha. Today, archaeologists say a year of terracing work and 18 months of military presence, with tanks and helicopters, have caused irreparable damage."

http://www.truthout.org/121008L

From his office in clouded cuckoo land

Iraq has gone from an enemy of America to a friend of America, from sponsoring terror to fighting terror, and from a brutal dictatorship to a multi-religious, multi-ethnic constitutional democracy.

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Michael Breen, The Christian Science Monitor: "For a platoon leader on the streets of Iraq, a trusted interpreter can be the difference between a successful patrol and a body bag. At great personal risk, interpreters bridge the language gap, guide soldiers and Marines through unfamiliar streets, serve as cultural advisers, and make crucial introductions. Unfortunately, the same US military that depends on them has needlessly placed Iraqi interpreters and their families in jeopardy. For the past several months, commanders in Baghdad enforced an ill-considered policy prohibiting Iraqi interpreters from wearing masks to conceal their identities while on patrol."

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Del Quentin Wilber, The Washington Post: "Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in the shooting deaths of 14 Iraqi civilians last year turned themselves in to federal authorities in Salt Lake City this morning, according to their attorneys, and the Justice Department unsealed a 35-count indictment against them. The five guards were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Washington in connection with the shooting, which occurred September 16, 2007, in Baghdad's bustling Nisoor Square."

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Blackwater Guards "Used Grenades"

BBC News: "US guards indicted over the 2007 fatal shooting of 17 Iraqis used machine guns and grenade launchers against unarmed civilians, prosecutors have said. The guards, from the US security firm Blackwater, were contracted to defend US diplomats. The firm says its guards acted in self-defence."

http://www.truthout.org/120908L

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US Contractors Charged in Massacre
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Kelly Kennedy, Army Times: "A Georgia man has filed a lawsuit against contractor KBR and its former parent company, Halliburton, saying the companies exposed everyone at Joint Base Balad in Iraq to unsafe water, food and hazardous fumes from the burn pit there. Joshua Eller, who worked as a civilian computer-aided drafting technician with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, said military personnel, contractors and third-country nationals may have been sickened by contamination at the largest U.S. installation in Iraq, home to more than 30,000 service members, Defense Department civilians and contractors."

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Iraq 'has signed an agreement' to put the US in charge of the security of its shores along the Persian Gulf without parliament's approval.

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