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[OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion Home Page] OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and... : Tuesday, April 11: U.S. Reports Death of 5 Soldiers in Iraq -- At least 2,359 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the war in 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians.
[Blah3 - Life In The Shadow Of Empire...] Rumsfeld: All generals look alike to me: Rumsfeld: All generals look alike to me Tuesday, April 11 2006 @ 07:30 PM EDT Contributed by: dedalus Rummy's attempts to dismiss recent criticism go beyond laughable. Here's what he has to say about several retired generals' critique of the Iraq war--for example, Retired
[Rootless Cosmopolitan] Fit to Print? The NY Times on Iraq: Uh, yeah: Moqtada’s men do their share of sectarian terrorizing, no doubt, but so do the militia of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, whose candidate the U.S. (and the Times, by extension, in this editorial) are supporting to replace Jaafari. (And SCIRI, of course, like Jaafari, is also a close ally of the anti-American clerical establishment in Iran.)
[Copeland Institute for Lower Learning] Take a ride on the mealy-mouthed express: I'd think, "You know, I disagree with him on most issues, but doggone it I like him because he seems a man of principle." He's sure done his best to blow that assessment all to hell with his unparalleled kowtowing to Dubya and the religious right. I guess it's more important to him to be president than to be principled, but at this rate, I can't imagine he's going to end up as either.
[Approximately Perfect] NOT a civil war: A February poll by the U.S. military, cited by the Brookings Institution, found that 71 percent of Iraqis "oppose the presence of Coalition Forces in Iraq." This poll was taken only in urban areas, but others have found much the same sentiment. According to a January 2005 poll by Abu Dhabi TV/Zogby International, 82 percent of Sunni Arabs and 69 percent of Shiite Arabs favor the withdrawal of U.S. troops either immediately or after an elected government is in place.
[Atrios.blogspot.com] Eschaton: On Wednesday, armed insurgents burst into the classroom of Khidhir al-Mihallawi, an English teacher at Sajariyah High School, accused him of being an agent for the CIA and Israeli intelligence and beheaded him in front of his students, according to students, fellow instructors and a physician at a local hospital.
[Huffingtonpost.com] The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Rummy Flunks History | The ...: All you ever needed to know about Rummy was when about a month or so before we went to war in Iraq, he was quoted on tv as saying that he didn't know how much the British role in the war would be if at all. The one ally that has always been by our side he was antagonizing before it all went down.
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