High Iraq deaths cast doubt on US stability talk
LaCrosse Tribune
08/01/10
While concern is rising in the U.S. about the war in Afghanistan, the Americans are anxious to show evidence of progress in their other conflict — Iraq. New Iraqi government figures tell a different story, however, showing civilian casualties hitting their highest level in more than two years — figures the U.S. rushed on Sunday to dispute...
http://tinyurl.com/23oxwkp
The twenty years war
Boston Globe
by John Tirman
08/01/10
Twenty years ago tomorrow, Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi troops into Kuwait, seized the capital, occupied the country, and sent the Kuwaiti ruling family into Saudi Arabia. The United States, Britain, and other major powers responded quickly, imposed sanctions on Iraq and told Saddam to quit Kuwait. Thus began the first of three phases of what has become, in effect, our Twenty Years War, an extraordinary American venture. How and why has this happened? Two strains of conventional wisdom purport to explain. … But these explanations are incomplete. The Twenty Years War is only the latest manifestation of a recurrent American tendency: the ‘rrand to the wilderness,’ to use the Puritans’ phrase, in which we (European-origin Americans) would tame and subdue the savages of the wilderness, extract its bounty, and remake it in our own image...
http://tinyurl.com/2ewfs87
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Obama Speech and Iraq Realities
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/02-6
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+casualties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Tirman
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy
08/01/10
While concern is rising in the U.S. about the war in Afghanistan, the Americans are anxious to show evidence of progress in their other conflict — Iraq. New Iraqi government figures tell a different story, however, showing civilian casualties hitting their highest level in more than two years — figures the U.S. rushed on Sunday to dispute...
http://tinyurl.com/23oxwkp
The twenty years war
Boston Globe
by John Tirman
08/01/10
Twenty years ago tomorrow, Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi troops into Kuwait, seized the capital, occupied the country, and sent the Kuwaiti ruling family into Saudi Arabia. The United States, Britain, and other major powers responded quickly, imposed sanctions on Iraq and told Saddam to quit Kuwait. Thus began the first of three phases of what has become, in effect, our Twenty Years War, an extraordinary American venture. How and why has this happened? Two strains of conventional wisdom purport to explain. … But these explanations are incomplete. The Twenty Years War is only the latest manifestation of a recurrent American tendency: the ‘rrand to the wilderness,’ to use the Puritans’ phrase, in which we (European-origin Americans) would tame and subdue the savages of the wilderness, extract its bounty, and remake it in our own image...
http://tinyurl.com/2ewfs87
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Obama Speech and Iraq Realities
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/02-6
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+casualties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Tirman
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy
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