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 [Bush Out (by Gandhi)] NYT: Something Has To Give Belying the rightwing ...: . These two killings took place in Basra, long described as one of the major success stories in Iraq... Mitchell, editor of E&P, puts the N.Y. Times on the spot on Iraq: What will it take, exactly... to a close its adventure in Iraq? .. Just yesterday came news of the murder of a Times reporter

 [Dialogic] Greg Palast: A Resounding Denouncement of George Galloway: A couple of months after the invasion of Iraq, I was in Los Angeles and some drunk accosted me, saying, "George Bush was right about everything he said about Iraq!" -- weapons of mass destruction, the al-Qaeda connection and more. It was Christopher Hitchens, "debating" me, and furious.

 [liberal pen pal: send us a letter] Needs more Turd Blossom: Najaf is widely cited by the military as one of the success stories in that effort, but American officers involved in the rebuilding say that reconstruction projects here, as elsewhere in the country, are hobbled by poor planning, corrupt contractors and a lack of continuity among the rotating coalition officers charged with overseeing the spending.

[Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal] Applications to New Orleans?: Najaf is widely cited by the military as one of the success stories in that effort, but American officers involved in the rebuilding say that reconstruction projects here, as elsewhere in the country, are hobbled by poor planning, corrupt contractors and a lack of continuity among the rotating coalition officers charged with overseeing the spending...

 [Angry Bear] A Tale of Two Cities: The United States has poured more than $200 million into reconstruction projects in [Najaf], part of the $10 billion it has spent to rebuild Iraq. Najaf is widely cited by the military as one of the success stories in that effort, but American officers involved in the rebuilding say that reconstruction projects here, as elsewhere in the country, are hobbled by poor planning, corrupt contractors and a lack of continuity among the rotating coalition officers charged with overseeing the spending.And from the Washington Post:

[Blog.newstandardnews.net] Iraq Dispatches: But NewStandard correspondent Dahr Jamail was there, and he wrote the story and took the photographs that should appear on the front pages of newspapers across the US tomorrow morning. The story he gathered -- standing among the people who watched the Iraqi-escorted convoy pass, and even talking to Iraqi soldiers and police -- differs dramatically from the version told by Marines and the Western journalists "embedded" with the convoy.

 [Gseis.ucla.edu] Blog Left: Critical Interventions Warblog (war blog, Iraq ...: An estimated 500,000 peaceful protestors marched in good spirit through Manhattan, placards proclaiming “Drop Bush, Not Bombs” and “Eradicate Mad Cowboy Disease” they shouted out antiBush slogans decrying his tax cuts for the rich, oil, repressive domestic policies, failed environmental policies, and incompetence as president. Decked out in brightly colored T-shirts with slogans like “No More Years” or that denounced Bush as a liar and warmonger, there were also fly swatters with Bush’s face, pallbearers carrying a thousand mock coffins draped in black representing the US soldiers killed in Iraq, and a paper-mache tank moved along the march with Bush’s head decked out in cowboy hat peeking out.

[Juancole.com] Informed Comment : 08/01/2004 - 08/31/2004: 2, "The unannounced capture of a figure from Al Qaeda in Pakistan several weeks ago led the Central Intelligence Agency to the rich lode of information that prompted the terror alert on Sunday, according to senior American officials. The figure, Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, was described by a Pakistani intelligence official as a 25-year-old computer engineer, arrested July 13, who had used and helped to operate a secret Qaeda communications system where information was transferred via coded messages." Reuters seems to say that the first, early morning edition of the article just identified the figure as "Khan."

 [Back-to-iraq.com] Back to Iraq 3.0: Trouble in Najaf: under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

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