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[xymphora] The intelligent American position: He overstates the value of the things the Americans have done right (the schools and hospitals are a mess, and he has the good sense not to even mention the outrageous electricity and water/sewage situations), doesn't seem to understand that the evidence in the 'mass' graves is highly problematic from the point of view of proving that Saddam was as bad as he is officially supposed to have been, neglects to mention that internal Pentagon planning documents covered all the issues before the war and were simply ignored by Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, and pretends not to notice that many of the problems in Iraq may be the intentional work of the neocons attempting to keep Iraq as weak as possible.
[Boxer Watch] Boxer speaks about Iraq: Why should he submit to you a timeframe for achieving our goals & withdrawing our troops from Iraq? Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al Jaafari, in a joint press conference with President Bush in the White House, stated that the Iraqi people’s biggest fear isn’t terrorists per se but rather that the Coalition forces would pull out before the job is finished.
[Iraquna.blogspot.com] Iraqi Letters: First, we know that neocons openly advocated a war on Iraq as far back as 1996 (in collaboration with Likud’s Netanyahu) and again in a letter to President Clinton in 1998. We also know that those same people (Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Armitage, Bolton, Perle, Khalilzad and James Woolsey) held, and most still hold, extremely important senior executive positions in the present Bush administration before and after the invasion of Iraq.
[Gpnys.org] Green Party of New York State » Blog Archive » Iraq will have ...: Myers focused for the first time on a dilemma the occupation authority created by pushing creation of a 40,000-member Iraqi army, without realizing that it should not be used for meeting the security problem. “We don’t want to go back to the old ways of the Iraqi army where they were used for internal security and some of the atrocities,”
[Wordsfromiraq.com] Words From Iraq: US patrols no longer enter the city, 40 miles west of Baghdad, and the Falluja Brigade, a government force established in May to maintain security, was disbanded this week.” Fallujah Brigade: “The controversial Iraqi military force formed by U.S. Marines in a last-ditch effort to pacify the restive city of Fallujah has been officially disbanded after months of continuing violence, assaults on government security forces and evidence that some members have been working openly with insurgents.” Illinois National Guard: “The 1544th, just 260 of the more than 3,000 men and women with the Illinois National Guard currently in Iraq, has suffered half of all the deaths and injuries for the entire Illinois National Guard. So far, four from the unit have been killed and 26 wounded.” Burn center: “There are more than 100 soldiers at BAMC recovering from injuries they suffered in Iraq.
[Funmurphys.com] Funmurphys: the Blog: Was It About Oil? Not According To Wolfowitz: Wolfowitz: The concern about implosion is not primarily at all a matter of the weapons that North Korea has, but a fear particularly by South Korea and also to some extent China of what the larger implications are for them of having 20 million people on their borders in a state of potential collapse and anarchy. It’s is also a question of whether, if one wants to persuade the regime to change, whether you have to find -- and I think you do -- some kind of outcome that is acceptable to them.
[Coldfury.com] The Light Of Reason » Blog Archive » AH, MEMORIES: Wolfowitz then dismissed articles in several newspapers this week asserting that Pentagon budget specialists put the cost of war and reconstruction at $60 billion to $95 billion in this fiscal year. He said it was impossible to predict accurately a war’s duration, its destruction and the extent of rebuilding afterward.
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