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Declines To Repeat Administration Promises Of Bringing U.S Troops From Iraq Before Term's End.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/01/national/main3896087.shtml


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw

A total of 633 civilians died violently in February, compared with 466 in January, according to figures released by Iraq's interior, defence and health ministries.

http://tinyurl.com/2x3qau


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+casualties

By George Galloway

As the peerless John Pilger put it, the invasion of Iraq would have been impossible without the supine connivance of the British media. The BBC was as much a part of operations as the Black Watch.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19449.htm



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The Guardian UK's Elana Schor reports: "The Bush administration is blocking an inquiry into the delay-plagued construction of the $736 million US embassy in Baghdad, a senior Democrat in Congress said today."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030108F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+embassy

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) will create temporary security bases in northern Iraq after troops wrap up an ongoing ground offensive in the region against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), security sources told Today's Zaman.

http://tinyurl.com/2bovel



Turkey Resumes Attacks in Iraq's North

Turkish warplanes and artillery pounded the Zap area, according to the officials, the same mountainous region in Iraq in which Turkish ground troops fought guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in an eight-day offensive that ended Friday.

http://tinyurl.com/2shhh6



Turkish army refuses to close bases in northern Iraq

The Turkish military leadership has rejected a request by Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish region to shut down several military bases in northern Iraq, the Turkish daily Vatan reported yesterday, citing a statement by the Turkish General Staff.

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=135688


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Turkey

The Australian's Peter Wilson writes: "The Iraq war has cost the US 50-60 times more than the Bush administration predicted and was a central cause of the sub-prime banking crisis threatening the world economy, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022908T.shtml

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The True Cost Of War

By Aida Edemariam

In 2005, a Nobel prize-winning economist began the painstaking process of calculating the true cost of the Iraq war. In his new book, he reveals how short-sighted budget decisions, cover-ups and a war fought in bad faith will affect us all for decades to come.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19443.htm



Economist: War to cost $3.5 trillion

Nobel economist tells Congress about impact of war that White House said would cost $60B.

http://tinyurl.com/ysketb


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=banking+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+Stiglitz

Tom Engelhardt and Frida Berrigan write for TomDispatch.com: "In other words, in honor of the soon-to-arrive fifth anniversary of his war without end, the President has offered a formula for economic success in bad times that might be summed up this way: less houses, more bases, more weaponry, more war. This, of course, comes from the man who, between 2001 and today, presided over an official Pentagon budget that leapt by more than 60% from $316 billion to $507 billion, and by more than 30% since Iraq was invaded. Looked at another way, between 2001 and the latest emergency supplemental request to pay for his wars (first in Afghanistan and then in Iraq), supplemental funding for war-fighting has jumped from $17 billion to $189 billion, an increase of 1,011%. At the same time, almost miraculously, the US armed forces have been driven to the edge of the military equivalent of default."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022908N.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Frida+Berrigan

Little new was said in the past two days, but thanks to Republican procedural maneuvers, the Senate was forced to debate a doomed Iraq troop withdrawal bill proposed by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.). Republicans boasted that they wanted to have a debate to highlight recent successes in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/yu48tv



More troops for Iraq and Afghanistan, Defense Department says

The Defense Department says it needs more troops to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. But an Army general warns that troops already in the fight are under too much strain.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0227/p99s04-duts.html


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feingold
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+strain

Iraq's presidential council rejected a plan for new provincial elections and sent the bill back to parliament for reworking yesterday, a major setback to U.S.-backed efforts to promote "national reconciliation". The ruling came despite a reported last-minute telephone call by Vice President Dick Cheney to the main holdout on the three-member panel.

http://tinyurl.com/ywx9xt


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Barack Obama - October 2002 Speech

You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil, through an energy policy that doesn't simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil. Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19440.htm



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