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Die Initiatoren des sich in Gründung befindenden »Europäischen
Friedensrats Türkei« haben sich mit einem Aufruf an die Öffentlichkeit
gewandt. Sie wenden sich gegen die Großoffensive der türkischen Armee und
fordern den sofortigen Rückzug der türkischen Streitkräfte aus dem
Nordirak. Siehe die Medieninformation der Initiatoren des Europäischen
Friedensrats Türkei vom 25. Februar 2008 mit dem Wortlaut des Aufrufs:
http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Tuerkei/irak13.html


Aus: LabourNet, 26. Februar 2008

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Turkey's Northern Iraq Incursion
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1029&thisview=item

http://www.slate.com/id/2184890/


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

http://counterpunch.org/dimaggio02252008.html


Informant: Kev Hall



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permanent+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dimaggio

Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, reporting for The Times of London, write: "The Bush Administration was wrong about the benefits of the war and it was wrong about the costs of the war. The president and his advisers expected a quick, inexpensive conflict. Instead, we have a war that is costing more than anyone could have imagined."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022508H.shtml

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Losing the future

Common Wonders
by Robert C. Koehler

03/06/08

A certain reverence is required just to approach the book’s title: ‘The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict’ by noted economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. I can see why they understated it. The pulse of outrage beats behind the cold calculations in this concise volume, newly published by Norton. We’re not just ‘losing’ this tragic, arrogantly unplanned war in the conventional sense of failing to subdue our enemies — we’re committing slow socioeconomic suicide with its open-ended pursuit, losing, as we plunge recklessly into debt over it, our options, our ability to choose. We’re losing the future...

http://commonwonders.com/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+Stiglitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Linda+Bilmes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+C.+Koehler

Chris Hedges, writing for TruthDig, says: "The United States is funding and in many cases arming the three ethnic factions in Iraq - the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunni Arabs. And the current US policy, born of desperation and defeat, means that when Iraq goes up, the U.S. military will have to scurry like rats for cover."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022508D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Hedges

Reuters reports, "Iraq fears that a prolonged Turkish incursion into northern Iraq could trigger clashes between Turkish troops and Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga security forces, the country's national security adviser said on Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022508J.shtml

Analysis by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail

The Iraqi government has issued instructions to all security and health offices not to give out the body count to the media. Dozens of bodies are found every day across Baghdad, residents say. Morgue officials confirm this.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19405.htm



Dahr Jamail: Beyond the Green Zone

Dahr Jamail - Unembedded Journalist talks about his amazing experiences reporting the Iraqi side of the war. Torture, white phosphorus and deadly attacks unfold in graphic stories of the American occupation.



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19406.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ali+al-Fadhily
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail

By Noam Chomsky

According to Iraqis, there is hope of national reconciliation if the invaders, responsible for the internal violence, withdraw and leave Iraq to Iraqis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19409.htm



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

Lawyers for five Iraqis have accused British soldiers of mass executions and torture and called for a police investigation into an "atrocious episode" in British army history.

http://tinyurl.com/2dvl8s


From Information Clearing House



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