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The Iraq Effect: War has Increased Terrorism Sevenfold Worldwide
Mother Jones
March 1, 2007
By Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank
Research fellows at the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of
Law. Bergen is also a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington,
D.C.
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Calif. Senate OKs Resolution Against Iraq
By Robert Salladay
The Los Angeles Times
Wednesday 14 February 2007
Amid accusations that it would give comfort to America's enemies, the California
Senate approved a resolution Tuesday calling for a halt to boosting the
number of troops in Iraq or spending any more taxpayer dollars on the war
without explicit approval from Congress.
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500,000 March for Peace in Washington DC
January 27th was an extraordinary outpouring for peace in Washington DC
and in communities all around the country. On Saturday, the National Mall
was filled with the voices of 500,000 people committed to doing their part
to end the war in Iraq and bring all of the troops home. And the energy
in this massive turnout was electric.
See United for Peace and Justice
for full reports, photos and video of the demonstration
Online Video
See George
Galloway's speech to the UK Parliament on Iraq, January 2007
Sunday, 28 January 2007
A powerful speech highlighting the appalling situation in Iraq, and the
pathetic handling of it by the British government: Ill-equipped troops,
brutal treatment of civilians, and support for death squads: Welcome to
democracy, Bush & Blair style!
"I cannot stand the constant military raids in my home"
Thursday, 25 January 2007
By Lina Massufi
01/24/07 -- - BAGHDAD, 22 January (IRIN) - "My name is Lina Massufi. I'm
a 32-year-old laboratory assistant who works 10 hours a day just to make
enough money to raise my children.
"My life has been like hell over the past three months. US and Iraqi soldiers
have raided my house more than 12 times.
"My husband, Khalil, was killed during the US invasion in 2003 when he drove
through a closed road and soldiers shot him dead.
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Lying Like It’s 2003
By Frank Rich
01/21/07 "New York Times"
THOSE who forget history may be doomed to repeat it, but who could imagine
we’d already be in danger of replaying that rotten year 2003?
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Health Care in Iraq Was Better Under Saddam Hussein
Alternet
By Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch. Posted January 19, 2007.
Almost four years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iraq's healthcare
system is still a shambles. Dozens of incomplete clinics and warehoused
equipment are a testament to the failed U.S. experiment to reconstruct Iraq.
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Iraqis will never accept this sellout to the oil corporations
The US-controlled Iraqi government is preparing to remove the country's
most precious resource from national control
Kamil Mahdi
Tuesday January 16, 2007
Guardian
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Botched hanging in Iraq arouses Arab suspicions
By Jonathan Wright, Reuters
Published: Monday, January 15, 2007
CAIRO (Reuters) - The botched hanging of Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan
on Monday aroused Arab suspicions of foul play and malice, deepening the
divide between the Iraqi government and Arabs in other countries.
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Poll shows 70% of Americans oppose troop increases
NANCY BENAC
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Seventy per cent of Americans oppose sending more troops to
Iraq, according to a new poll that provides a devastatingly blunt response
to U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to bolster military forces there.
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Robert Fisk: Bush's new strategy - the march of folly
So into the graveyard of Iraq, George Bush, commander-in-chief, is to send
another 21,000 of his soldiers. The march of folly is to continue...
Published: 11 January 2007, The Independent, UK
There will be timetables, deadlines, benchmarks, goals for both America
and its Iraqi satraps. But the war against terror can still be won. We shall
prevail. Victory or death. And it shall be death.
President Bush's announcement early this morning tolled every bell. A billion
dollars of extra aid for Iraq, a diary of future success as the Shia powers
of Iraq still to be referred to as the "democratically elected government"
march in lockstep with America's best men and women to restore order and
strike fear into the hearts of al-Qa'ida. It will take time oh, yes, it
will take years, at least three in the words of Washington's top commander
in the field, General Raymond Odierno this week but the mission will be
accomplished.
Mission accomplished. Wasn't that the refrain almost four years ago, on
that lonely aircraft carrier off California, Bush striding the
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Bush to order 21,500 more troops to Iraq
Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:27 PM GMT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will tell skeptical Americans
on Wednesday he will send about 21,500 extra U.S. troops to Iraq and admit
it was a mistake to not have more forces fighting the unpopular war in the
past.
Defying Democrats and unswayed by polls showing the public opposes a fresh
infusion of American troops into the nearly 4-year-old war, Bush will acknowledge
American patience is running thin and place more of a burden on the Iraqi
government to perform.
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Blood and oil: How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious
commodity
The Independent (UK)
January 7, 2007
The 'IoS' today reveals a draft for a new law that would give Western oil
companies a massive share in the third largest reserves in the world. To
the victors, the oil? That is how some experts view this unprecedented arrangement
with a major Middle East oil producer that guarantees investors huge profits
for the next 30 years
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