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[war around the world] Bombs in Iraq Kill 48 - Voice of America | war around the world: Xinhua Bombs in Iraq Kill 48Voice of AmericaA village near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was pulverized from the explosion of two powerful truck bombs, killing dozens and trapping many others under the rubble. And at least three other major explosions targeted mostly ”¦49 killed in wave of Iraq attacksAFPIraq bombs kill 40, fears of sectarian strife growWashington PostAl Qaeda blamed for Iraq violence waveCNNXinhua -Aljazeera.net -The Associated Pressall 1265 news .

[MoJo Articles] Iraq from the Inside of an Armored BMW | Mother Jones: For God's sake and our own, somebody has to stand up and dare tell the truth to power whether the NSA admits spying on print journalists and veterans like myself. The stimulus might be paid in part by revoking the tax break hidden in the Homeland Security Act by Republicans just before the Oil War so corporate war profits would be tax free, further enlarging the largest debt in national history while they tell America they must control fiscal conservatism from 40,000 feet above a totally defenseless oil reserve.

[The Heritage Foundation Papers: Commentary] Advancing Freedom in Iraq: Increasingly, Members of Congress are calling for the United States to withdraw from Iraq.[15] Con­gress has already passed legislation, which the Pres­ident vetoed, that would have "redeployed" U.S. armed forces out of Iraq and restricted the use of U.S. troops to extremely limited circumstances, such as killing or capturing members of al-Qaeda and training Iraqi security forces.[16] Although this legislation stated that U.S. forces were permitted to provide protection for "American diplomatic facili­ties and American citizens" (such as the U.S. embassy and diplomatic personnel), it designated no specific facilities or citizens for protection. Nei­ther did it provide any specific protection for USAID, NGOs such as the NDI and their Iraqi employees, or the Provincial Reconstruction Teams operating in Iraq.

[Thomas PM Barnett :: Weblog] We lost control in Iraq a long time ago (Thomas P.M. Barnett ...: Just how much autonomy does the newly created Iraqi government have in creating business/security deals with outside entities? Wouldn't it be to Bush's advantage to publicly announce to Iran that any meddling at all will be observed as a threat to Iraqi/US civilians/troops and handled as such.

[Worldfocus] Corruption, deprivation and faulty infrastructure plague Iraq ...: It’s not called corruption, it’s called the cost of doing business. Recently a new regular style gas station opened near our brigade headquarters and not long after it did, the brigade commander’s personal security detachment roughed up a lot of the black market gasoline vendors and dumped their gas on the street.

[Fabius Maximus] Visiting Iraq's “Don's” from the Inside of an Armored BMW « Fabius ...: The one thing that’s notable about this occupation is that Iraq oil production collapsed. The right claimed we invaded Iraq first to find WMDs (which means we should’ve left within 6 weeks since there weren’t any), then to promote democracy in the middle east (which means we should’ve left within 6 weeks when everyone in Iraq started killing each other), and now the right claims we invaded Iraq to stabilize the region, which means we should’ve left the next day, judging by the chaos our presence caused.

[protein wisdom] The Big Picture(s) [Karl]: Bush's decision to “surge” US troops in hopes of bringing down escalating sectarian violence.Ԛ The establishment media's coverage was less than subtle.Ԛ In December 2006, .A Times correspondent in Ramadi said at least 15 homes were pulverized by aerial bombardment.Ԛ By other accounts, those killed were adult males, killed by fire from tanks.Ԛ The paper never printed the US military's denial of an airstrike.

[Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni] Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni » Blog Archive » WAR WITH IRAN: MORE THAN A ...: It took the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and the subsequent occupation to destabilize Iraq and split the country along sectarian lines. Indeed, its new constitution is drawn around a loose federation with partial autonomy for the northern Kurds and the southern Shiites, with the country now rife with sectarian, religious, and ethnic strife.

[Hannah's Blog] Hannah's Blog » Webb-”A Formula (to)”¦ Undo a Grave Strategic Error”: Certainly, the press has been prevented from telling them, and us, what's going on there, as well as in the air war that's pulverizing the country just as surely as Dresden was pulverized during World War II. “After withdrawal,” he said , “we should retain sufficient forces in the region to contain the conflict and ensure that instability in Iraq does not spill over into other countries, creating a regional war, a terrorist haven or a genocide.” .

[Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org] Iraq's "Teflon Don" | SocialistWorker.org: As a result, these men obtained backing for their private militias, renamed Awakening groups, and in addition, signed "construction" contracts with the Americans who put millions of dollars in their pockets, even if not always into actual construction sites. As early as April 2006, the Rand Corporation released a report, "The Anbar Awakening," identifying America's potential new allies as a group of sheiks who used to control smuggling rings and organized crime in the area.

[Enduring America] The “New Iraq”, Up Close and Ugly: A Report from Fallujah ...: To fully understand why tribal leaders like Aifan began working so closely with American forces, you also have to take into account the waves of staggering sectarian violence that were sweeping across Iraq in 2006. As Sunni suicide and car bombings slaughtered Shi’ites, so, too, Shi’ite militias and death squads were murdering Sunnis by the score on a daily basis.

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