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We need to find out if the colonial period has ended or not. If an agreement is worked out that allows American troops, subcontractors and modern mercenaries to remain above the law of the land in Iraq, we will all suffer for years to come, says Rami G. Khouri.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=28430


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Iraq warned on Wednesday it would not be bullied into signing a security pact with the United States, despite US leaders warning of potentially dire consequences if it failed to approve the deal.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/384675/1/.html


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Pfc. Steven D. Green, 22, told FBI agents that "George Bush and Dick Cheney ought to be the ones that are arrested," according to court documents. He also said "You probably think I'm a monster" and "Guess I'm looking at spending the rest of my life in jail," the documents said.

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-iraq-rape-slaying,0,6623125.story


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The Iraqi Cabinet dealt a blow today to a draft agreement to allow US forces to stay in Iraq beyond the end of the year, demanding changes to the document to make it more acceptable.

http://tinyurl.com/5739mv



Iraqi-U.S. pact dishonors Iraq: Jaafari

Former Iraqi Premier Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Monday said from Iran that the Iraqi-U.S. long-term proposed security agreement is both detrimental to and dishonors Iraq, calling on the Iraqi people to reject it, according to Fars News Agency.

http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=101554


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The Real News Network: US-Iraq Security Deal in Doubt Again
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/10/21-2



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By Aaron Glantz, Haymarket Books

We were told we were fighting terrorists; the real terrorist was me, and the real terrorism is this occupation. Racism within the military has long been an important tool to justify the destruction and occupation of another country. Without racism, soldiers would realize that they have more in common with the Iraqi people than they do with the billionaires who send us to war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21055.htm



Is America Fascist?

By Sherwood Ross

What if some clever tyrant in the White House, having the backing of the military, got USA to invade and loot another country without arresting and/or killing vast numbers of his own people who opposed his war? What if he just ignored their protests and then, when his term of office ended, enjoyed a blissful retirement at his ranch?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21053.htm



"Bush Guilty Of First Deg Murder"

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George W Bush knew and purposely lied to America and mislead The Congress about "Saddam Hussein NOT being an IMMINENT threat to the United States by deleting that critical sentence in a declassified report (The White Papers) by his own Intelligence Advisors in order to start the War with Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21057.htm



Translating Propaganda and Thinking the Unthinkable

By Max Kantar

Propaganda in the US rests mostly in what is not said, but rather assumed. Such a system of indoctrination is extremely powerful as it serves the purpose of making certain thoughts not so much undesirable, but unthinkable, strikingly reminiscent of Orwell's depiction of totalitarian control and manipulation of the English language in his novel, 1984.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21052.htm



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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rallied in the streets of Baghdad Saturday against a proposed American-Iraqi deal that would allow US troops to stay in the country for three more years.The large turnout points to trouble ahead for the US-Iraqi security deal as Sunni and Shiite lawmakers weigh the political risks associated with the agreement."

http://www.truthout.org/102008T

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Another Million Iraqi demonstrators

Get out of our country: Baghdad witnessed another demonstration with more than one million Iraqi, Arabs and Kurds and others, Muslims and Christians and others, Sunnis and Shiites and others demonstrated together against the occupation and the long term agreement, asking for a complete withdrawal the leaves no permanent bases, no troops, and no mercenaries.

http://tinyurl.com/6en5y4


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Agence France-Presse: "Iraq has secured the right to prosecute US soldiers and civilians for crimes committed outside their bases and when off duty, in the latest draft of a security pact that will set the terms of their deployment beyond this year. The draft stipulates that the United States will have the primary right to exercise jurisdiction over its soldiers and civilians if they commit a crime inside their facilities or when on missions, according to a copy obtained by AFP."

http://www.truthout.org/102008N



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The Associated Press: "Fort Carson soldiers returning from deployment in Iraq are suspects in at least five slayings, and officials want to know why."

http://www.truthout.org/article/101908E



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Corinne Reilly and Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers: "A draft agreement by US and Iraqi negotiators that calls for withdrawing American troops by 2012 appears to be facing obstacles in Iraq that could kill the deal before it's implemented, lawmakers in Baghdad said."

http://www.truthout.org/article/101908D



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