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Iraqi Cleric Sadr Threatens 'Open War'

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr has threatened "open war" if the crackdown by Iraqi and US forces against his loyalists continues.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1313362,00.html?f=rss



Iranian ambassador lashes U.S. offensive in Baghdad's Sadr City

"We criticize the pounding of cities and the siege of people, which will aggravate the situations and make things worse," ambassador Hassan Kazemi Qomi told a news conference at the Iranian Embassy.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/20/content_8012630.htm



Iran: Claims of support for Iraqi insurgency unfounded

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Iran Thursday to end its backing for Shia militias. She also told reporters in Washington that she has no plans to meet Iran's foreign minister at the conference next week.

http://tinyurl.com/3fqtl2



Purple Patch: The echo chamber of history

The Iranians used to call the United States the 'centre of world arrogance', and I would laugh at this, but I have begun to understand what it means.

http://tinyurl.com/4t43f9



Battle to retake Basra was 'complete disaster'

The British-trained Iraqi Army's attempt to retake Basra from militiamen was an "unmitigated disaster at every level", British commanders have disclosed.

http://tinyurl.com/5srxem



Rice: Muqtada a Coward

Najaf Tense; Veterans Depressed, Unemployed

By Juan Cole

Rice has her 'bring'em on moment' in Iraq, talking trash to the Mahdi Army and calling Muqtada al-Sadr a 'coward.' Muqtada al-Sadr eluded Saddam Hussein for 4 years after Saddam killed his father and two elder brothers; and in 2004 he twice took on the US military. He may be a lot of things, but he is not a coward.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19780.htm


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Petraeus, Crocker Testify Before Impatient Lawmakers

Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post reports on Petraeus's testimony before Congress: "In a reprise of their testimony last September, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker came to Capitol Hill today to tell lawmakers that security has improved in Iraq and that the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has taken steps toward political reconciliation and economic stability."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040808C.shtml



Fighting Intensifies in Iraq's Capital

Reporting for the Los Angeles Times, Tina Susman writes: "Three more U.S. troops were killed Monday as Iraqis struggled to bury their dead amid fierce street battles between Shiite Muslim militias and Iraqi and American soldiers in the nation's capital. In one of the most intense days of fighting here involving U.S. troops in recent months, American helicopters fired at least four Hellfire missiles and an Air Force jet dropped a bomb on a suspected militia target."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040808D.shtml



 

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William Rivers Pitt writes for Truthout, "George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, along with a slew of administration underlings and a revolving-door cavalcade of brass hats from the Pentagon, have been making claims regarding Iraq for many years now."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040808J.shtml



Secret US Plan for Military Future in Iraq

Seumas Milne reports for The Guardian UK, "A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended military presence in the country."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040808K.shtml



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Journalist Jeremy Scahill on "Corporate Pillaging and Military Contractors" panel at Winter Soldier.

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Bill Adair of The St. Petersburg Times evaluates Barack Obama's claims about the costs of the war on average Americans: "Sen. Barack Obama says the war costs each household about $100 per month. We do the math and find he's right. The cost of the Iraq war has often been expressed in billions or trillions.... In a speech on March 20, 2008, Obama took a different approach and emphasized the personal cost of the war."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040708G.shtml



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Writing for TomDispatch, Ira Chernus explains that "supporters of Bush's Iraq policy have insisted that violence there really has been subsiding, hence that his surge strategy has worked. When Democrats and other war critics rejected that claim, they sparked a battle over who has the right, and the proper criteria, to evaluate the surge and its post-surge effects. So violence-lowering success in Iraq also became a symbolic measure of the president's political success here at home."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040708E.shtml



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Interview With Phil Donahue, Co-Director of "Body of War"

Geoffrey Millard reviews "Body of War" and interviews Co-Director Phil Donahue. Introducing the film, Millard writes for Truthout: "With Iraq documentaries having fared poorly at the box office, a new film, 'Body of War,' could mark a turning point because it brings to the big screen a subject that has yet to be broached by a major movie."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040708A.shtml

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Phil Donahue, discusses his new documentary called "Body of War"

Video and Transcript

This documentary tells the story of a former Iraq war soldier, Tomas Young and follows his physical rehabilitation and his decision to actively protest the Iraq war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19714.htm



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Kim Gamel and Bushra Juhi of The Associated Press report: "August 1, 2007, changed the life of 28-year-old Maysa Sharif. It was the day she became one of nearly a million Iraqi women who have lost husbands as the country has suffered through three wars and Saddam Hussein's murderous regime. Such vast numbers of widows would tax any society, and all the more Iraq's."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040708R.shtml

 

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John McCain, the Republicans' choice to run for president, has said that the US can succeed in Iraq, but warned against any hasty withdrawal of US troops.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7334926.stm


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Winter Soldier Vietnam organizer Bill Crandell compares wars.
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