Let's ask them, Mr. Bush, says Laurence M. Vance.
N.B.: some disturbing photos.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance66.html

The good news is that 2006 will see the effective end of the western occupation of Iraq. It will end because everyone will be exhausted: the Americans, the British, the Iraqis and their neighbours. It will end because all justification for its continuance will have evaporated.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11430.htm

The number of airstrikes in 2005, running at a monthly average of 25 until August, surged to 120 in November and an expected 150 in December, according to official military figures.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11429.htm

Much of Iraq ushered in the new year under a near blackout Sunday as a week-old power crunch worsened across huge sections of northern and central Iraq.

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/010106/world_20060101034.php


From Information Clearing House

Sign Tallying Military Deaths Upsets Army :

Scott Cameron never imagined his modest memorial to American troops in Iraq would transform a quiet street here into the latest front of the nation's tense debate about the war in Iraq.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5514385,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Australia: Voters abandon PM over Iraq war:

VOTER support for John Howard's decision to go to war in Iraq is in freefall, with even Coalition supporters who backed the 2003 invasion now questioning the value of the protracted conflict.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17697959^601,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Bush and Blair Plot Their Exit Strategy, as the Nation Falls Apart at the Seams:

This was the year in which the US admitted it was not going to defeat the insurgency. It was the ebb tide of American and British power in Iraq.

http://www.counterpunch.com/patrick12312005.html


From Information Clearing House

We lay before the international public opinion and international human rights organisations the truth of what is happening in Tel Afar of the extreme use of force and the use of internationally forbidden weapons of poison gases, cluster, microwave and napalm bombs, we demand autopsies be carried out on the corpses of our sons who fell in the barbaric aggression by international medical bodies to verify the inhuman practices carried out by the American forces of occupation and to expose the stooge militias that participated in the massacre of Tel Afar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11421.htm

As a fuel crisis deepened in Iraq, the government replaced its oil minister with controversial Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi, whose poor performance in the Dec. 15 elections was a setback in his recent attempt at political rehabilitation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105Z.shtml