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Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Is there a man or woman in America today who is willing to stand at noon in the public square and claim that demands to bomb, invade, and occupy other people's countries have anything to do with human liberation? If such people can be found, let them answer a few simple questions about the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. How many Iraqis did we "liberate" from the companionship of their loved ones? How many Iraqis did we "liberate" from dwelling in the houses and towns and the country of their birth? How many Iraqis did we 'liberate' from life on Earth?"

http://www.truth-out.org/how-many-iraqis-did-we-liberate-from-life-earth62112



"Blood on Our Hands"

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "While most media continue to ignore the US-installed disaster in Iraq, author Nicolas Davies refuses to do so, and his book 'Blood on our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq' could not be released at a better time."

http://www.truth-out.org/blood-our-hands60367



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Saddam Husseins ehemaliger Außenminister will, dass die US-Truppen jetzt nicht das Land verlassen und die USA für den Fehler gerade stehen, den sie mit der Invasion begangen hätten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148139



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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


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Tony Blair's new book 'is like a love letter to George Bush

The former prime minister is wheeling out his wife Cherie and their four children to publicise the book, entitled A Journey, across the Atlantic.

http://bit.ly/biOygT



Tony Blair: Cheney's vision 'not stupid,' possible 'over time'

Don't rule out attack on Iran, Blair says

By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer

Vice-President Dick Cheney's vision of completely redrawing the map of the Middle East following the 9/11 attacks is "not stupid," and is "possible over time," former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26315.htm



Blair Was Told Iraq Threat Not A Concern

By Humberto

Lady Manningham-Buller, Director General of the UK Security Service from 2002 until 2007, told the investigators that Mr Blair's fears over Saddam arming terrorists were a mere "hypothetical theory", and certainly "not a concern in the short term or medium term to my colleagues or myself" - the information available was simply not "substantial enough".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26310.htm



9 Shameless Warmongers Who Call Fox News Home

By Media Matters for America

Media Matters takes a look at the track record of wrong predictions and shoddy analysis about the war in Iraq by many of Fox News' contributors and analysts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26309.htm


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'For one million years, the Americans won't leave Iraq' says Iraqi
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9858/

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New Dawn, Old Story

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "In March of 2003, a pretend president launched a war of choice to pretend he was protecting America. The war, called Operation Iraqi Freedom, began under the premise that Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons - which is 1,000,000 pounds - of sarin, VX and mustard gas, 30,000 munitions to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs, uranium from Niger for use in a 'robust' nuclear weapons program, and connections to al Qaeda that led directly to the attacks of September 11. George W. Bush said these things, and the media decided it must be so, and we were off to the races."

http://www.truth-out.org/new-dawn-old-story61966



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As U.S. troops pull out of Iraq, the State Department will need to rely extensively on security contractors.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128946086&ft=1&f=3



Rebranded Occupation Relying Heavily on Private Military Contractors?

President Obama said Monday in a speech before the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta that the US military is on target to withdraw all its combat troops from Iraq by the end of August. We speak with independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, who says this instead marks the beginning of a downsized and rebranded occupation that will rely heavily on private military forces.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/3/end_of_iraq_combat_operations_or


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FOX celebrates two US victories in Iraq, looks toward Iran
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9857/



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Deb Weinstein, Truthout: "As promised and on schedule, 'President Obama said US troops will end their combat mission in Iraq at the end of this month.... However, although troops will no longer officially be in combat mode, US forces will remain on the ground until December 2011, according to the terms of a 2008 Strategic Agreement between the US and Iraq."

http://www.truth-out.org/iraq-part-two-operation-new-dawn61955



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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...

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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Obama Speech and Iraq Realities
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/02-6



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The Suffering of Fallujah
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/29

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Rewriting history: Biden: US troops halted 'chaos' and 'destruction' in Iraq

US Vice President Joe Biden declared Wednesday that anti-US forces who wanted to consign Iraq to "chaos and destruction" had failed, as he welcomed home a much decorated military unit.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100728/pl_afp/usiraqmilitarypoliticsbiden


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