UK: Labour must dare to speak for Britain - and Iraq:

Holding Blair to account is not only right, it is in the party's own interests...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1310804,00.html


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Mourning the Warrior, and Questioning the War

Chris Hedges, a seasoned war correspondent and author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," interviews Sue Niederer, a gold star mother who was arrested for asking Laura Bush, "Why don't your children serve?" The photograph of Niederer was taken by Dith Pran, the photojournalist portrayed in the film, "The Killing Fields," about the war in Cambodia...

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2055

Mentally scarred by experiences in Iraq, returning US soldiers say the military isn't giving them the help they deserve. "The DOD [Department of Defense] is taking great care of the acutely injured, the injuries you can see, the burns, the lost arms and legs that they're treating with state-of-the-art prosthetics," says Stephen Robinson, executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, a veterans' advocacy organisation in Silver Spring, Md. "But they're doing a horrible job with the other injuries that aren't quite so evident."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2054

For the troops on the ground, Iraq might as well be Vietnam

The growing toll detailing the human cost of the Iraq War just began. Americans know thousands of our soldiers are returning home with serious brain injuries, shrapnel wounds, amputated limbs, and psychiatric problems. Yet there is another story: More than 10,000 veterans of Iraq and/or Afghanistan are seeking readjustment counseling caused by intense and prolonged urban combat. The article below provides a stark reminder of the facts. Other recent related articles are included...

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2047

Flash Presentation:
http://www.ericblumrich.com/pax.html


From Information Clearing House

Everything the United States and the United Kingdom has done in Iraq, done to Iraq, and is planning to do for Iraq is illegal...

http://207.44.245.159/article6941.htm


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Juan Cole: If America were Iraq, What would it be Like?

Violence killed 300 Iraqis last week, the equivalent proportionately of 3,300 Americans. What if 3,300 Americans had died in car bombings, grenade and rocket attacks, machine gun spray, and aerial bombardment in the last week?

http://207.44.245.159/article6940.htm


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Tony Benn: MPs can end the Iraq folly:

This is a war that cannot be won - not least because it is being seen as a crusade against Islam. What is needed now is a vote in parliament to withdraw the troops on a fixed date - perhaps the end of this year - and for Britain to sponsor a resolution at the security council calling on the Americans to do the same...

http://207.44.245.159/article6939.htm


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