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Irak: Der beinahe vergessene Surrealimus verschwundener Milliardenbeträge; das Dahinschwinden und Versickern von amerikanischen Steuergeldern im Sumpf der Korruption und betrügerischer Geschäfte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28795/1.html

By Rep. Ron Paul

Yes, I was wrong about Iraq. I knew it would be bad. I didn't know it would be this bad.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20842.htm



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Military prosecutors accused a U.S. soldier Sunday of taking an Iraqi detainee to a remote desert location, stripping him naked, shooting him in the head and chest and then watching as another soldier set fire to the body with an incendiary grenade.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080921/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_soldiers_charged_2


From Information Clearing House

Is there a way for U.S. negotiators to finagle permanent bases without permission from Congress? Yep. It's called a SOFA.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/09/iraq-sofas.html



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Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/sc_nm/iraq_lights_dc


From Information Clearing House

Ann Wright, Truthout: "In the five and one-half years of the US occupation of Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed by US military personnel at checkpoints, during convoy movements and during operations to find the 'enemy.' In the half-decade of US military presence in Iraq, a very small number of US military personnel and an even smaller number of CIA and contractors have been charged with manslaughter or murder in these deaths.... This week we see again that punishment is less for murdering four Iraqis than for refusing to participate in a war that many citizens, and many in the military, see as a crime against the peace - a war crime."

http://www.truthout.org/article/when-refusing-kill-has-a-higher-sentence-than-murder



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By John W. Dean

By Deceiving a Congressional Leader, Cheney Sent Us to War on False Pretenses and Violated the Separation of Powers - as Well as the Criminal Law.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20814.htm



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Leila Fadel and Laith Hammoudi, McClatchy Newspapers: "At least eight civilians, all from one family and including women, were killed in a US raid and airstrike Friday near Tikrit, Iraqi police and witnesses said."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-strike-kills-civilians-iraqis-say

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"We Blew Her to Pieces"

By Dahr Jamail

Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves. A new book gives readers vivid and detailed accounts of the devastation the U.S. occupation has brought to Iraq, in the soldiers' own words.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20813.htm



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