http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1347792004


Informant: Davey Garland

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6593163?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1100666488500&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872


Informant: ItalysBadBoy

http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=31327


Informant: Andy Thames

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FK25Ak03.html


Informant: Andrea Ball

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/25/ldt.01.html


Informant: CHEROKEE

The U.S. military again failed to meet recruiting goals. To make up for the serious shortage, the U.S. began a "back door" draft: Soldiers can't leave the military, even after their enlistment contracts end. U.S. deaths in Iraq reached 109 for November, and 1,230 since the war began. An additional 9,000 are wounded, and 15,000 more are injured or ill, many of them from the National Guard or Reserve. Young men and women are voting with their feet against the Iraq War by not enlisting or re-enlisting, and this means a full-scale draft looms on the horizon.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2451

Members of a California Army National Guard battalion preparing for deployment to Iraq said this week that they were under strict lockdown and being treated like prisoners rather than soldiers

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=716&e=28&u=/latimests/20041125/ts_latimes/guardsmensaytheyrefacingiraqilltrained
http://snipurl.com/awb0


From Information Clearing House

The official number of US soldiers wounded in Iraq that was announced by the US DOD (department of defense) is 8458 in Iraq and 423 in Afghanistan. The US military hospital in Germany reports that 20,802 troops have been treated at Landstuhl from injuries received in "Operations Iraqi Freedom" (occupying Iraq) and "Enduring Freedom" (occupying Afghanistan).

http://207.44.245.159/article7367.htm

A reporter writes about how he witnessed "a cold-blooded execution" during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. This news article raises disturbing questions about the horror of the U.S. occupation as well as self-censorship among reporters.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2440


Medics Testify to Fallujah's Horrors

Here's an article that wasn't printed during the initial invasion of Iraq in March 2003: The first time Jose Ramirez saw a human body ripped apart by a rocket, it took hours for him to regain his composure. Nothing in his training as a Navy medical corpsman had prepared him for the sight of the dead Marine brought in September to the military field hospital outside Fallujah. "I walked around in shock," said Ramirez, 26, of San Antonio, a Navy petty officer third class attached to Bravo Surgical Company.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2443

Tom Hayden

Instead of assuming that the Bush administration has an "exit strategy", the movement needs to force our government to exit. The strategy must be to deny the U.S. occupation funding, political standing, sufficient troops, and alliances necessary to their strategy for dominance.

http://207.44.245.159/article7365.htm