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Roy Gutman and Leila Fadel, McClatchy Newspapers: "The US military has warned Iraq that it will shut down military operations and other vital services throughout the country on Jan. 1 if the Iraqi government doesn't agree to a new agreement on the status of US forces or a renewed United Nations mandate for the American mission in Iraq. Many Iraqi politicians view the move as akin to political blackmail, a top Iraqi official told McClatchy Sunday."

http://www.truthout.org/102708K



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+deal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leila+Fadel

CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs

10/26/08

I should be used to it by now, but I’m not. When I read statements from US policymakers telling the world that Iraq is still not capable of defending itself without US help, I am still angered and amazed at the bold-faced arrogance. Most recently, several US political leaders and generals have told the Iraqi and American people that only they know when it is time for US troops to leave Iraq. Furthermore, while Iraqis from virtually every segment of that nation’s political sphere demand changes in the US-imposed agreement to keep US forces there, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice vocalizes Washington’s response: we decide what we want to do in Iraq and we decide how long we will stay, so take it or leave it. If you leave it, then we will find another way to stay, and if we do, we will make your lives more miserable than we already have...

http://counterpunch.org/jacobs10242008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+deal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleeza+Rice
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Jacobs

http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1158567/12759198/63006/0/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk

Fearing political division in the parliament and in his country, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki won't sign the just-completed agreement on the status of U.S. forces in Iraq, a leading lawmaker said Friday.

http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/857005.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+deal

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/24



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+war+dead
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Paulson

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/23-3



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/23-3



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+pact
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter

Michael Schwartz, TomDispatch.com: "Even before the spectacular presidential election campaign became a national obsession, and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression crowded out other news, coverage of the Iraq War had dwindled to next to nothing. National newspapers had long since discontinued their daily feasts of multiple - usually front page - reports on the country, replacing them with meager meals of mostly inside-the-fold summary stories. On broadcast and cable TV channels, where violence in Iraq had once been the nightly lead, whole news cycles went by without a mention of the war."

http://www.truthout.org/102308T



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Great+Depression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Schwartz

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m47991&hd=&size=1&l=e


Informant: MoJo



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Terminator
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

- Say you misplaced $185,481 somewhere? Just expense it - Iraq style! A U.S. contractor hired to teach Iraqis about good government physically lost that amount in cash, then claimed the loss as "an expense."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_go_ot/iraq_lost_cash


From Information Clearing House



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