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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/20/10482/

Bush, US Military Pressure Iraqis on Withdrawal
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/25/10591/

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Premier says Iraq can look after own security

We are making great progress in the security situation,' al-Maliki said, adding there was now a considerable measure of freedom and democracy in the country. 'Iraq is able to take the security situation into its own hands. We have achieved great success,' al-Maliki said.

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The man who can end the war in Iraq
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind143.html

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Former "Bush Puppet" Calls for US Withdrawal

Truthout's Maya Schenwar reports: "Dr. Ayad Allawi, the former interim Iraqi prime minister previously referred to even by US Congress members as a 'Bush puppet,' voiced his strong support for a US withdrawal timeline during a Wednesday Congressional hearing. During his term in office, from June 2004 to April 2005, Allawi endorsed the US's controversial bombings of Fallujah and echoed Bush's speeches almost word for word in many of his own statements; The Washington Post reported that Bush administration officials coached Allawi on the content of his public comments. Prior to his involvement in the US-backed, post-invasion Iraqi government, Allawi worked with the CIA. Yet, on Wednesday, Allawi blatantly called for 'a time frame for reduction of US forces,' a statement that stands in stark contrast to the hazy, deadline-less 'time horizon' recently advocated by President Bush."

http://www.truthout.org/article/former-bush-puppet-iraqi-pm-calls-us-withdrawal



You Need Uncle Sam, Iraq Told

By Gareth Porter

Instead of moving toward accommodating the demand of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for a timetable for United States military withdrawal, the George W Bush administration and the US military leadership are continuing to pressure their erstwhile client regime to bow to the US demand for a long-term military presence in the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20357.htm

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Who will determine Iraq's future?

Sabah al-Nasseri: The majority of US troops and private security firms will stay in Iraq.

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Peter W. Dickson writes for Consortium News: "As these fig leaves drop to the ground, they are exposing raw geo-strategic objectives that were present in the original calculations of Republican foreign policy experts going back to the early 1990s, a desire for a firm US foothold in the Middle East to protect the West's access to oil and to defend the state of Israel from, then, primarily its Arab enemies."

http://www.truthout.org/article/iraqs-falling-fig-leaf

By Aijaz Zaka Syed

I respect ICC chief prosecutor Ocampo for his courage to bring justice to the people of Darfur. But would he or can he bring justice to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan too?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20307.htm



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By David Michael Green

No oceans of ink applied to mountains of parchment, and certainly no new scheme concocted by James Baker and Warren Christopher, could ever save America's Congress, or its press, or its opposition party, or its people, from the historical stain which has attached to them forever by virtue of their abdication of responsibility when it came to Iraq.

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By Peter Phillips

The United States is directly responsible for over one million Iraqi deaths since the invasion five and half years ago. In a January 2008 report, a British polling group Opinion Research Business (ORB) reports that, “survey work confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the conflict which started in 2003…. We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been of the order of 1,033,000. If one takes into account the margin of error associated with survey data of this nature then the estimated range is between 946,000 and 1,120,000”.

This report comes on the heels of two earlier studies conducted by Johns Hopkins University published in the Lancet medical journal that confirmed the continuing numbers of mass deaths in Iraq. A study done by Dr. Les Roberts from January 1, 2002 to March 18 2003 put the civilian deaths at that time at over 100,000. A second study published in the Lancet in October 2006 documented over 650,000 civilian deaths in Iraq since the start of the US invasion. The 2006 study confirms that US aerial bombing in civilian neighborhoods caused over a third of these deaths and that over half the deaths are directly attributable to US forces. The now estimated 1.2 million dead, as of July 2008, includes children, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, cab drivers, clerics, schoolteachers, factory workers, policemen, poets, healthcare workers, day care providers, construction workers, babysitters, musicians, bakers, restaurant workers and many more. All manner of ordinary people in Iraq have died because the United States decided to invade their country. These are deaths in excess of the normal civilian death rate under the prior government.

The magnitude of these deaths is undeniable. The continuing occupation by US forces guarantees a mass death rate in excess of 10,000 people per month with half that number dying at the hands of US forces— a carnage so severe and so concentrated at to equate it with the most heinous mass killings in world history. This act has not gone unnoticed.

Recently, Dennis Kucinich introduced a single impeachment article against George W. Bush for lying to Congress and the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq. On July 15 The House forwarded the resolution to the Judiciary Committee with a 238 to 180 vote. That Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq’s threat to the US is now beyond doubt. Former US federal prosecutor Elizabeth De La Vega documents the lies most thoroughly in her book U.S. Vs Bush, and numerous other researchers have verified Bush’s untrue statements.

The American people are faced with a serious moral dilemma. Murder and war crimes have been conducted in our name. We have allowed the war/occupation to continue in Iraq and offered ourselves little choice within the top two presidential candidates for immediate cessation of the mass killings. McCain would undoubtedly accept the deaths of another million Iraqi civilians in order to save face for America, and Obama’s 18-month timetable for withdrawal would likely result in another 250,000 civilian deaths or more.

We owe our children and ourselves a future without the shame of mass murder on our collective conscience. The only resolution of this dilemma is the immediate withdrawal of all US troops in Iraq and the prosecution and imprisonment of those responsible. Anything less creates a permanent original sin on the soul of the nation for that we will forever suffer.


Peter Phillips is a Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and director of Project Censored a media research group. He is the co-editor with Dennnis Loo of the book Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney.



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THE Ministry of Defence has agreed to pay almost £3 million to the family of an Iraqi who died while being detained by UK troops, and to nine other men who were also allegedly mistreated.

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By Tony Perry

Nelson said that he watched in shock as Nazario shot a kneeling prisoner at point-blank range: "He hit the dude in the forehead, the dude went down and there was blood . . . all over his [Nazario's] boots."

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