A story that President Bush would probably prefer not to see propagated.

In detail, they recount what happened on the day they got injured; how they arrived back home, blind or legless; how they have to try to forget the war now, in small towns around Alabama and Pittsburgh, or in Washington and L.A. Officially recognised as “heroes,” a Purple Heart on the uniform in the closet, most of these soldiers long to go back to an army that has no use for them anymore.

Click here to watch it now.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7799.htm

Strategists who keep close tabs on the war in Iraq are scratching their heads over a sudden shift to large-scale attacks on American bases by the insurgents who heretofore have primarily bedeviled U.S. forces with their roadside bombs and hit-and-run attacks.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3077

Imagine you're a child, maybe 8 years young, riding in the back of the family car, your parents up front, your siblings pressed around you. It is dusk and you are making for home. Suddenly you hear the all-too-familiar pop of gunfire. Your father slows down but keeps driving, afraid to stop. Perhaps you turn to a sibling and ask what is wrong. But before anyone can answer, the war invades the thin cocoon of the automobile.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3073

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/739/op15.htm


From Information Clearing House

In devising a strategy to defeat Iraq’s insurgents, the Pentagon may be gaining the upper hand but at the cost of pushing Iraq toward civil war. A report by the Wall Street Journal from Feb. 16 revealed that “pop-up militias” are proliferating in Iraq. Not only is the U.S. aware of these illegal militias, but the Pentagon is arming, training and funding them for use them in counter-insurgency operations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8628.htm


Iraq's Bootstrap Battalions :

There’s something new on the ground in Iraq. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Greg Jaffe reports that in the fall of 2004, privately funded militias connected to key political figures in Iraq began popping up around the country as Iraq’s elections approached.
http://www.dailypundit.com/newarchives/2005/02/iraqs_bootstrap_1.php


From Information Clearing House


U.S. Funding Iraqi Militias Led by Baathists As Part of Counter-Insurgency Operation:

Most disturbing, one militia in particular – the “special police commandos” – is being used throughout Iraq and has been singled out by a U.S. general as conducting death squad strikes known as the “Salvador option.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8630.htm

The suffering of my people must not be conveniently forgotten now

By Haifa Zangana

Bush and Blair, like Saddam before them, are legally and morally responsible for the destruction of Iraq and the daily killing of its people. Let us hope that the British people do not allow Blair to conveniently forget his war during this election campaign.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8627.htm

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=631173


Informant: Friends



Marla Ruzicka Lived, Died for Her Cause
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/642971/