The US Isn't Leaving Iraq, It's Rebranding the Occupation
By Seumas Milne
Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won't give Iraqis back their country.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26092.htm
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Iraq: We’re “withdrawing” but not leaving
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
08/06/10
Like everything else in our oh-so-modern world, things are not quite what they seem: ‘complexities’ get in the way. So let’s look at what is actually happening, not what the President and his amen corner would like us to see, before we throw our hats in the air. To begin with, Obama’s original campaign promise was to get all the troops out by May of this year. But I guess we aren’t supposed to remember that, and it would be rude to bring it up. Secondly, we aren’t leaving at all — there’s that bothersome ‘transitional force’ (as the Prez puts it) of up to 50,000 troops...
http://tinyurl.com/28y26z5
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=combat+troops
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Seumas+Milne
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won't give Iraqis back their country.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26092.htm
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Iraq: We’re “withdrawing” but not leaving
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
08/06/10
Like everything else in our oh-so-modern world, things are not quite what they seem: ‘complexities’ get in the way. So let’s look at what is actually happening, not what the President and his amen corner would like us to see, before we throw our hats in the air. To begin with, Obama’s original campaign promise was to get all the troops out by May of this year. But I guess we aren’t supposed to remember that, and it would be rude to bring it up. Secondly, we aren’t leaving at all — there’s that bothersome ‘transitional force’ (as the Prez puts it) of up to 50,000 troops...
http://tinyurl.com/28y26z5
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=combat+troops
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Seumas+Milne
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
rudkla - 6. Aug, 09:05
