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  • Lee, Woolsey To Present Bill Seeking Iraq Pullout
    18 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    January 17th, 2007 10:46 pm
    (CBS 5) WASHINGTON — As Congress battles over President Bush’s plan to send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq, two Bay Area congresswomen are set to introduce legislation Wednesday calling for the complete withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq under a six-month deadline.
    East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee and North Bay Rep. Lynn Woolsey, both Democrats, will introduce The Bring the Troops Home and Iraq Sovereignty Restoration Act, a new bill that they say would (…)

  • Troops pressure Congress to back pullout from Iraq
    18 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    January 17, 2007
    BY RENEE SCHOOF
    MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
    WASHINGTON — Pressure on Congress intensified Tuesday to stop President George W. Bush’s plan to increase troops in Iraq, as about 1,000 active-duty soldiers and Marines urged lawmakers to support a quick withdrawal and antiwar groups planned to rally state legislatures.
    Although most Democrats and some Republicans oppose Bush’s 21,500-troop increase, Congress isn’t moving very fast to try to stop or alter the plan. Democratic (…)

  • US forces raid Kurdish refugee camp in northern Iraq
    17 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    dpa German Press Agency Published: Wednesday January 17, 2007
    Ankara- US troops in Iraq on Wednesday raided a refugee camp housing Turkish Kurds in northern Iraq, Turkish news agencies reported. Abdurrahman Belaf Berzenci, the elected leader of the 10,000 refugees at the Mahmur refugee camp, told the Dogan news agency that US forces moved into the camp Wednesday morning and went from dwelling to dwelling checking identity cards.
    Berzenci said that there were no violent incidents during (…)

  • Why Time is not on Bush’s Side
    17 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Time is not on Bush’s Side: "Out of altitude, airspeed and ideas" By FRANKLIN SPINNEY January 17, 2007 The heart of any military strategy in the conduct of war is the art of placing your adversary under menacing pressure to make a decision, while denying him thetime to make sense out of the menacing conditions forcing that decision. The Baker Commission tried to buy time by throwing a life ring to the Decider-in-Chief, but he refused it and chose instead to squander two months of (…)

  • Bush Determined to Strike Iran
    16 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane, local Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday.
    http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2...

  • Remember Afghanistan Anyone?
    16 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.afghanistanafterdemocracy.com
    ATTENTION ALL AMERICANS
    Does anyone even remember Afghanistan?! I’m sure you’ve heard the same sh#* I have that the "war" in Afghanistan is over, it’s won, and all is sunshine and butterflies there. I challenge ALL AMERICANS to buy this book, LOOK at what has been done to Afghanistan IN OUR NAMES and do the right thing!!!!!! The book was written by an Afghani doctor to illustrate what has been done to Afghanistan. It is (…)

  • Paradoxes Doom Bush’s ‘New Strategy’ in Iraq
    16 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    President George W. Bush’s paradoxical “new strategy” in Iraq is doomed by its own contradictions as much as by Iraqi and regional paradoxes and would in no time prove that the U.S. president’s go-it-alone approach will only extend the failure of the 2003 military invasion in developing into a permanent occupation, amid wide spread world and American calls for withdrawal and political solution.
    “The new strategy I outline tonight will change America’s course in Iraq,” (…)

  • Baghdad 2025
    15 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Baghdad 2025 The Pentagon Solution to a Planet of Slums By Nick Turse
    So you think that American troops, fighting in the urban maze of Baghdad’s huge Shiite slum, Sadr City, add up to nothing more than a horrible mistake, an unexpected fiasco? The Pentagon begs to differ. For years now, U.S. war planners have believed that guerrilla warfare is the future — not against Guevarist focos in the countryside of some recalcitrant, possibly-oil-rich land, but in growing urban "jungles" in the vast (…)

  • Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil?
    15 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil? Monday, 15 January 2007, 9:56 am Opinion: Sherwood Ross Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil?
    By Sherwood Ross
    After Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez told the United Nations he could smell the sulphur in the chamber where President Bush spoke the previous day, some angry Bostonians wanted to pull down the big CITGO neon sign in Kenmore Square, since CITGO oil is pumped in Chavez Country. The loquacious Chavez had the temerity to compare President Bush with the devil, (…)

  • Kuwait media: U.S. military strike on Iran seen by April
    15 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kuwait media: U.S. military strike on Iran seen by April
    www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-14 15:19:28
    Special report: Iran Nuclear Crisis
    KUWAIT CITY, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) — U.S. might launch a military strike on Iran before April 2007, Kuwait-based daily Arab Times released on Sunday said in a report.
    The report, written by Arab Times’ Editor-in-chief Ahmed al-Jarallah citing a reliable source, said that the attack would be launched from the sea, while Patriot missiles would guard all (…)