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By Amy Goodman

I think both the candidates, Obama and McCain, are planning to leave troops in the long run. So from an Iraqi point of view, I don't think there is a major difference in the U.S. foreign policy in Iraq between the two candidates, because both of them are not for ending the intervention in Iraq. Both of them are for keeping troops in Iraq. They call it residual force; they call it whatever they want to call it. But they want to continue interfering in Iraq militarily and politically in the long run.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20745.htm



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Military Families Speak Out (MFSO): Iraq Troop Withdrawls Too Little Too Late
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/09/11-0



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If George Bush's recent speech is anything to go by, Iraq has been a success. Does anyone in their right mind believe him?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/georgebush.iraq


From Information Clearing House

Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, and subject to frequent sexual abuse by guards, current and former prisoners say.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/08/iraq.humanrights


From Information Clearing House

Michael Schwartz, TomDispatch.com: "As the Bush administration was entering office in 2000, Donald Rumsfeld exuberantly expressed its grandiose ambitions for Middle East domination, telling a National Security Council meeting: 'Imagine what the region would look like without Saddam and with a regime that's aligned with U.S. interests. It would change everything in the region and beyond.' A few weeks later, Bush speechwriter David Frum offered an even more exuberant version of the same vision to the New York Times Magazine: 'An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein, and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States, would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.' From the moment on May 1, 2003, when the President declared 'major combat operations ended' on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, such exuberant administration statements have repeatedly been deflated by events on the ground."

http://www.truthout.org/article/who-lost-iraq-is-maliki-government-jumping-off-american-ship-state



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"If it is true, it reflects that there is no trust and it reflects also that the institutions in the US are used to spying on their friends and their enemies in the same way," said Mr Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman of the Iraqi government.

http://tinyurl.com/5je9d2



Iraq does not need agreement violating country's sovereignty - Iraq's Vice President

"We do not need the agreement unless it guarantees sovereignty conditions, taking Iraq out from the UN charter seven, and assures the implementation of the Iraqi law in general," al-Hashemi said during a visit to al-Adhamiya neighborhood in Baghdad

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From Information Clearing House



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Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "A leaked version of last month's draft of the proposed US-Iraq status of forces agreement (SOFA) suggests that the Iraqi parliament may not be consulted before it is signed, despite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's promises to do so. The pact would govern the future US presence in Iraq. The draft indicates no intent to set a deadline for withdrawal of 'noncombat' troops from Iraq. It also grants immunity from Iraqi law to US military personnel, no matter where they are located."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-iraq-agreement-leaked



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