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Leila Fadel, McClatchy Newspapers: "A key pillar of the US strategy to pacify Iraq is in danger of collapsing because the Iraqi government is failing to absorb tens of thousands of former Sunni Muslim insurgents who'd joined U.S.-allied militia groups into the country's security forces."

http://www.truthout.org/article/key-us-iraq-strategy-danger-collapse



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Washington is headed toward another dismal milestone in Iraq. With more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers dead and a conflict that's outlasted World War II, now add a $100 billion bill for private contractors by year's end.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/14/EDM512BA7J.DTL


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Keith Olbermann, MSNBC: "Senator McCain - on the 22nd of May, 2003 ... you said, of Iraq, on the Senate floor, quote: 'We won a massive victory in a few weeks, and we did so with very limited loss of American and allied lives. We were able to end aggression with minimum overall loss of life, and we were even able to greatly reduce the civilian casualties of Afghani and Iraqi citizens.' Senator - you declared victory in Iraq, five years and nearly three months ago. Today you say: 'victory in Iraq is finally in sight?' The victory you already proclaimed five years ago?"

http://www.truthout.org/article/mccain-senator-grow-up



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My Army Went To Iraq And All I Got Was This Lousy Airlift

By David Michael Green

Your average American is going to have a hard time seeing the Iraq war as morally equivalent to the one in Georgia (let alone even less justified), but that is simply because he or she is American. The rest of the world has no such problem, and never has. An invasion of a sovereign state is an invasion of a sovereign state, pure and simple.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20527.htm



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Detroit Free Press

08/14/08

Multiple combat deployments to Iraq are increasing serious mental health problems among soldiers, triggering drug and alcohol abuse and contributing to record suicide levels, suggest reports out today. In a typical unit headed to Iraq, 60% are on their second, third or fourth deployment, lasting about a year each, said Army Col. Carl Castro, who directs a medical research program at Ft. Detrick, Md...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Deborah Haynes in Baghdad

American soldiers will withdraw from cities across Iraq next summer and all US combat troops will leave the country within three years, provided the violence remains low, under the terms of a draft agreement with the Iraqi Government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20511.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/12/10954/



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Andrew Tilghman, TPM Muckraker: "Today private military contractors supporting the U.S. occupation in Iraq far outnumber U.S. troops inside the country. All together, these non-uniformed workers have cost nearly $100 billion, accounting for roughly 20 percent of the total U.S. budget for the five-year war."

http://www.truthout.org/article/iraq-contractors-outnumber-troops



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Freedom's Phoenix
by Sherwood Ross

08/11/08

The Hunt and Halliburton deals offer vivid proof that ‘crony capitalism,’ not the free market brand, is being practiced divvying up Iraq’s oil resources and the other spoils of war. This has long been Bush’s modus vivendi. The Wall Street Journal once noted his Harken Energy Co. acquired exclusive offshore drilling rights from Bahrain in 1990 even though it had never drilled a single well. How did Harken get it? Well, Bush’s father at the time occupied the White House...

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=036922


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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