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[National Debunker] Have the US and Halliburton Permanently Wrecked Iraq's Oil Fields: As a result, when oil production backs up, the Iraqis are forced to pump the oil back into the ground - a practice widely condemned in the industry because the re-injected oil, which is thicker, can plug fissures through which the petroleum flows. Iraq puts almost 200,000 barrels of oil per day back into the ground - meaning that Iraq's net production is even lower than the official figure of 2.2 million barrels.
[Today in Iraq] War News for Monday, October 3, 2005 Moving the E...: As much as some (like myself) might wish the architects of the Iraq War would be put on trial, American policy will likely change through subtle shifts in establishment attitudes, such as an “emerging” view that sending 150,000 troops to occupy an Arab country that had nothing to do with bin Laden was not the wisest way to protect the United States from a terrorist threat. The etiquette of making a consensus emerge requires that one pretend to forget that many who now hold forth confidently on the unwisdom of Operation Iraqi Freedom two years ag The irony, of course, is that spouted with equal certainty opinions molded by super-hawk Norman Podhoretz.
[The Online Magazine formerly known as Rob's Blog] Iraq war money hole: The money, fresh $100 bills shrink-wrapped on pallets, which filled three Blackhawk helicopters, came from oil sales under the UN’s Oil for Food Programme, and had been entrusted by the UN Security Council to the Americans to be spent on behalf of the Iraqi people. The CPA didn’t properly check out the courier before handing over the cash, and, as a result, according to an audit report by the CPA’s inspector general, ”˜there was an increased risk of the loss or theft of the cash.’ Paul Bremer, the American pro-consul in Baghdad until June last year, kept a slush fund of nearly $600 million cash for which there is no paperwork: $200 million of this was kept in a room in one of Saddam’s former palaces, and the US soldier in charge used to keep the key to the room in his backpack, which he left on his desk when he popped out for lunch.
[Dahrjamailiraq.com] Iraq Dispatches: Unlike reporters for major papers, wire services, and the TV news, he lacked the guards, vehicles, elaborate home base, tech support, fixers, and all the other appurtenances of an American journalist in the ever more dangerous Iraqi capital, a city now so filled with violence and explosions that the young blogger Riverbend recently wrote: "It is almost as if Baghdad has turned into a giant graveyard." Unlike most American reporters, however, Jamail (gambling his life) refused to let himself be trapped in his hotel and so his reporting was of the (rare) outside-the-Green-Zone variety. With his Iraqi translator and friend, he regularly interviewed ordinary Iraqis rather than officials of various sorts.
[Vitw.org] Voices in the Wilderness : Voices from Iraq: Because she had married an Iraqi of Palestinian origin, she had not been able to travel outside Iraq for over twenty years. Her son, who had been imprisoned for eleven months in Iraq under US forces, had been released, and she was finally recovering from the cloud of grief and worry this caused her.
[Riverbendblog.blogspot.com] Baghdad Burning: And now he’s going to go back to America and give a speech about how he doesn’t know what anyone is talking about when they say ”˜chaos’ (*he* was safe in the middle of all his bodyguards)”¦ how electricity and water are functioning (after all, his air-conditioner was working *fine*)”¦ how the people are gloriously happy and traffic is frequently at a stand-still because the Iraqis are dancing in the streets”¦ how the ”˜armed forces’ are cheerful and *grateful* to be on this heroic, historical mission”¦ how kids wave at him, troops cheer him, dogs wag their tails in welcome and doves hover above his head”¦
[Motherjones.com] Digging In: Politically, the occupation is becoming increasingly untenable: Practically every significant Iraqi political figure—from Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to Iraqi president Ghazi al-Yawar, an influential Sunni Muslim—opposes the occupation and wants the troops out, and any leader who hopes to maintain credibility will have to make that a priority. "The presence of bases there is going to be a source of instability and anger for the Iraqi people, whether they are currently for the insurgency or not," says Jessica Matthews, the head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
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