http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11585.htm


Informant: Friends

It turns out the eventual cost of the war in Iraq will not be several hundred billion, but according to a new study at least a thousand billion dollars - US$1 trillion, in other words. This figure dwarfs any previous estimate by orders of magnitude.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011606K.shtml

Cincinnati Enquirer

01/15/06

Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, whose 1968 conclusion that the Vietnam War was unwinnable keenly influenced public opinion then, said Sunday he'd say the same thing today about Iraq. 'It's my belief that we should get out now,' Cronkite said in a meeting with reporters. Now 89, the television journalist once known as 'the most trusted man in America' has been off the 'CBS Evening News' for nearly a quarter-century. He's still a CBS News employee, although he does little for them...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

With Friends like these

IN ONE of the stream of speeches in which George W. Bush is now trying to defend his ill-fated invasion of Iraq, this week he let loose a sentence that should light all the red lights. In this sentence he castigated his opponents for asserting that he had attacked Iraq "for the oil"...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11570.htm

The Army closed a criminal investigation of abuse allegations by an Iraqi detainee last year, finding no reason to believe his claims, even though no Americans involved in the case were questioned.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011406X.shtml

Individually, the new "dots" supplied by revelations about the Iraq war in James Risen's "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration" are not very surprising. Collectively, though, they provide valuable insight into the peculiar way in which President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair prepared to launch an unprovoked war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011406Y.shtml

While George W. Bush thumps the official line, unspoken facts about the military, political, and economic realities of the war in Iraq pile up.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306E.shtml

Newly released military documents show US Army investigators closed a probe into allegations that an Iraqi detainee had been abused by a shadowy military task force after its members used fake names and asserted that key computer files had been lost.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306B.shtml

Declaring that the United States was at a crossroads in Iraq, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops said Thursday the time had come to withdraw US troops as fast as responsibly possible and to hand control of the country to Iraqis.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306A.shtml