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About the Downing Street Memo...

US Media Shamed by Brit Journalist

By DAVE LINDORFF

At this stage, it seems almost pointless to say it, but once again, the corporate media in America have been exposed as a cowardly mass of toadies who cannot bring themselves to publish or air anything remotely critical of the administration unless compelled to do so by cattle prods...or a reporter from a foreign news organization doing what reporters are supposed to do routinely.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9109.htm

http://snipurl.com/fi2h

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Sixteen people killed execution-style found in Iraq:

The bodies of 16 people who were killed execution-style have been discovered in western Iraq, witnesses said on Friday, the latest grisly killings fueling fears of civil war in Iraq.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO021503.htm

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Roadside Bomb Kills Five Marines in Iraq :

Five U.S. Marines have been killed by a roadside bomb in western Iraq, the military said Friday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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U.S. Military Chief Admits, 'Good and Honest' Iraqis Are fighting US forces :

He predicted attacks would continue to surge in intensity, as key milestones were reached, including the upcoming constitutional referendum.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9103.htm

http://snipurl.com/fi2t

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Building Iraq's Army: Mission Improbable:

Project in North Reveals Deep Divide Between U.S. and Iraqi Forces
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9106.htm

http://snipurl.com/fi2u

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The Occupiers Will Lose In Iraq:

America's military mission [in Iraq] has become impossible to succeed in," the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies has just written. The dramatic situation in Iraq is, indeed, well known. On the military side, violence goes on unabated.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=168534

http://snipurl.com/fi4k

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What the Iraq fight really costs us:

Ferguson, a professor of history at Harvard, argued that to defeat the insurgency in Iraq and establish a modicum of stability there would take one million U.S. soldiers and possibly 30 to 60 years.
http://snipurl.com/fi35

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Iraq sees no early prospect of oil export increase:

Iraqi crude exports will remain severely limited at just 1.5 million barrels daily until Baghdad is able to get foreign investors to boost output, Oil Minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum said Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&storyID=8758073

http://snipurl.com/fi38

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Tribes Accused of Iraq Oil Protection Racket:

The state-owned North Oil Company (NOC) alleges that tribes paid to protect pipelines are behind many of the attacks on them around the Kirkuk oil fields.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2005/2005-06-10-03.asp

http://snipurl.com/fi39

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Desertions blow hits Afghan army :

Hundreds of soldiers have deserted the Afghan National Army complaining of poor conditions and fierce resistance from the Taleban, US officials say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4078118.stm

http://snipurl.com/fi3b

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Chris Floyd: Blood Group :

The brutal system of torture, corruption, lawlessness and war established in Washington by the faction of President George W. Bush is now backed by the greatest military power in history, able to wipe whole nations from the face of the earth in minutes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9098.htm

http://snipurl.com/fi3c

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