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An "emergency" request to the U.S. Congress for funds to pay for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is strewn with money to buy military goods that cannot yet be used in either country.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7478146


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By Paul Craig Roberts

Bush invaded Iraq with the intent of turning Iraq into an American colony. The so-called government of Maliki is not a government. Maliki is the well paid front man for U.S. colonial rule. Maliki's government does not exist outside the protected Green Zone, the headquarters of the American occupation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19789.htm



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Iraq is resisting U.S. proposals for a pair of new bilateral security agreements, saying it expects Washington to compromise on "sensitive issues," including the right to imprison Iraqi citizens unilaterally, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Monday.

http://tinyurl.com/3ztvhe


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Behind Sadr's warning to the US lies an unavoidable fact: He holds critical cards in Iraq.

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?wc_mid=1664:886208&wc_rid=107480579

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Iraq's Sadr cannot be defeated by force: experts

Suddenly, after many months in which the news from Iraq has been mostly about falling violence, the country is reeling towards a rebellion by millions of Sadr's followers against a government crackdown on his black-masked Mehdi Army militia.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-33157320080421


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The Bush administration's support for the Iraqi government crackdown on Shi'ite militias risks drawing the United States into a dangerous confrontation between rival Shi'ite sects, analysts warn.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20080421-0836-usa-iraq-shiites.html


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Robert Parry writes for Consortium News, "After prying loose 8,000 pages of Pentagon documents, the New York Times has proven what should have been obvious years ago: the Bush administration manipulated public opinion on the Iraq War, in part, by funneling propaganda through former senior military officers who served as expert analysts on TV news shows."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042108E.shtml

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Pentagon Propaganda & Antiwar Analysts

By The Nation

The article reports that most of the news organizations either didn't know or didn't care about their paid analysts taking direction from the administration while claiming to neutrally assess its policies; or taking expensive trips paid by the administration; or meeting secretly with senior administration officials and plotting military or political strategy; or competing for military contracts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19781.htm



Behind Analysts, the Pentagon's Hidden Hand

By David Barstow

Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19782.htm



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http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/305.html

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Rice fails to clinch Arab commitments on Iraq

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Sunni-led Arab allies on Monday to try to persuade them to back Iraq's Shiite leadership but failed to clinch any concrete commitments on debt relief or diplomatic presence.

http://tinyurl.com/4y8kt2


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http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt328.html



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