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 [Maxblumenthal.blogspot.com] MAX BLUMENTHAL: How about the fact that Hackett called Bush a "chickenhawk s.o.b.?" Does that qualify as "aligning himself with the President?" Is the blood-drenched morass that Iraq has become a "freak circumstance?" Come on. There could be no better illustration of the mounting opposition to Bush's war on Iraq in specific, and the so-called war on terror in general, than this election.

 [Andrewsullivan.com] www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: Now that everyone in Iraq has a purple finger, the insurgents are going to slink away. We clear a town of insurgents, but we don’t have the manpower to hold it, so we pull the troops out and—surprise—the insurgents take the town back.

[Normblog.typepad.com] normblog: For months the shaping of a new constitution has been the theme of popular political debates throughout Iraq. More than 300 conferences were held on the subject throughout the country, allowing an estimated 50,000 people to express the views of countless cultural associations, trade unions, guilds, tribal groups and religious fraternities.

 [Back-to-iraq.com] Back to Iraq 3.0: Study: Between 11000 and 15000 killed in Iraq: Both the absolute number and the proportion of noncombatants among the Iraqi war dead was higher in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) than in Operation Desert Storm (ODS), twelve years earlier. This, despite the intervening years of technological development and enhancements to US warfighting capabilities (which cost US taxpayers ~ $1 trillion) and despite the fact that far fewer aerial munitions were used in OIF than in ODS and a much higher proportion of these were guided.

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