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[Antiwar.com Original] 100 Days of Solidarity With Iraq by Medea Benjamin -- Antiwar.com: Despite the fact that there is a Bush-era agreement with the Iraqi government to leave, despite the fact that the majority of Iraqis and Americans don’t support a continued U.S. presence, and despite the fact that Congress is supposedly in an all-out austerity mode, strong forces ”” including generals, war profiteers, and hawks in both parties ”” are pushing President Obama to violate the agreement negotiated by his predecessor and keep a significant number of troops in Iraq past the Dec. 31, 2011 deadline.

[Travel Impact Newswire] 100 Days of Solidarity to End the U.S. Occupation of Iraq | | AlterNet: Despite the fact that there is a Bush-era agreement with the Iraqi government to leave, despite the fact that the majority of Iraqis and Americans don’t support a continued U.S. presence, and despite the fact that Congress is supposedly in an all-out austerity mode, strong forces – including generals, war profiteers and hawks in both parties –

[Patrick Henry Press News] Iraq: 100 Days of Solidarity | Patrick Henry Press News: But if U.S. troops are to leave Iraq at the end of this year as promised - repeatedly - it will take grassroots pressure to counter the growing “occupy-Iraq-forever” chorus in Washington.In spite of President Obama’s oft-repeated promises, his administration appears unwilling to withdrawal all U.S. troops, much less private contractors. Obama’s hand-picked Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, has already endorsed a plan that would see 3,000 to 4,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq indefinitely, ostensibly to “continue training security forces there.” (Tim Sloan, AFP/Getty Images)

[All Global News on One Page] Iraq 100 Days of Solidarity - All Global News on One Page: Despite the fact that there is a Bush-era agreement with the Iraqi government to leave, despite the fact that the majority of Iraqis and Americans don't support a continued U.S. presence, and despite the fact that Congress is supposedly .strong forces — including generals, war profiteers and hawks in both parties — are pushing President Obama to violate the agreement negotiated by his predecessor and keep a significant number of troops in Iraq past the December .

[Wings Over Iraq] WoI Brief | Wings Over Iraq: Despite new resolve to issue a Security Council resolution addressing violence in Syria, the first negotiations on Wednesday among all 15 members of the Council over the wording bumped along an old rut. As Syrian army defectors begin launching attacks on government forces, Syria's largely peaceful rebellion appears in danger of descending into a sectarian civil war with wider regional consequences.

[IDEALS] IDEALS » Blog Archive » FAMILIAR HAWKS PRESS OBAMA ON IRAQ WITHDRAWAL: The letter also focused considerable attention on the threat allegedly posed by Iran which, it charged, “has increased its attempts to expand its influence in Iraq, including through the killing of American forces and support to Iraqi political parties. Maintaining a robust American presence in-country would blunt these efforts, and help ensure Iraq remains oriented away from Iran and a long-term ally of the United States.”

[Wings Over Iraq] WoI Brief | Wings Over Iraq: With just over three months until the last U.S. troops are currently due to leave Iraq, the Department of Defense is engaged in a mad dash to give away things that cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars to buy and build. – Huffington Post.

[War & Peace in the Middle East] State Department's search for a ... - War & Peace in the Middle East: (The morning news summary at State includes this message: “Due to the security classification of many documents, the daily addendum will not include news clips that are generated by leaked cables by the website WikiLeaks.”) The corollary to such a position evidently goes something like this: since we won’t punish our own technical security people or the big shots who approved the whole flawed scheme in the first place, and the damned first amendment doesn’t allow us to punish the New York Times, let’s just punish one of our own employees for looking at, creating links to and discussing stuff on the web - and while he was at it, writing an accurate, first-hand and critical account of the disastrous, if often farcical, American project in Iraq.

[Guernica / Blog] Guernica / Peter Van Buren: Freedom Isn't Free at the State ...: Back in that windowless room for a second time, I faced the two DS agents clumsily trying to play semi-bad and altogether-bad cop. They once again reminded me of my obligation to protect classified information, and studiously ignored my response—that I indeed do take that obligation seriously, enough in fact to distinguish between actual disclosure and a witch-hunt.

[This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here] This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here » Blog Archive » Round 1 ...: And the soldier who was once branded in madness as a baby killer is now glorified as a saint, an angel in camouflage and their service is being used by the Chicken Hawks In Chief as a guilt inducing distraction. The monuments both of stone and of flesh are sullied by those who have propagated this current war of convenience and who see only profit in its perpetuation.

[Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news] The Accidental Spy: The Only Employee at State Who May Be Fired ...: The corollary to such a position evidently goes something like this: since we won’t punish our own technical security people or the big shots who approved the whole flawed scheme in the first place, and the damned First Amendment doesn’t allow us to punish the New York Times, let’s just punish one of our own employees for looking at, creating links to, and discussing stuff on the web -- and while he was at it, writing an accurate, first-hand, and critical account of the disastrous, if often farcical, American project in Iraq.

[Noiraqwar-chicago.org] Blog Archive » Occupy Iraq Forever? Bring'em Home!: Despite the fact that there is a Bush-era agreement with the Iraqi government to leave, despite the fact that the majority of Iraqis and Americans don’t support a continued U.S. presence, and despite the fact that Congress is supposedly in an all-out austerity mode, strong forces — including generals, war profiteers and hawks in both parties —

[Iraq - All] LexisNexis News - Latest News from over 4000 sources, including ...: "A force of only a few thousands Americans also will have a greatly reduced capacity to undertake unilateral counterterrorism operations," he went on in an apparent allusion to Washington's interest in striking against Al-Qaeda in Iraq cells, which have staged something of a comeback recently in predominantly Sunni communities that have felt marginalised by Maliki's government, and against Shi'a militias allegedly tied to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which Washington claims were responsible for a series of lethal attacks on U.S. forces in June.

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