Simon Jenkins: Quit Iraq, and quit fast. It's that simple:

The brave recourse now is to realism, to admit that a war which cannot be won should soonest be abandoned. Britain should leave Iraq in January, whatever a new American President decides...

http://207.44.245.159/article6942.htm


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Powell Suggests Iraq Critics Are Defeatist, Rattled
http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/43119|top|09-21-2004::09:06|reuters.html


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We are dealing in the cheapness of Iraqi lives while we Iraqicize them. Like the "liberated areas," the free-fire zones have begun to spread in Iraq's cities, as they once did in Vietnam's countryside...

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=1839


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New Zealand Herald [New Zealand]

09/19/04

With the war locked into a bloody stalemate, the veterans are wondering how the military might find replacements to fill the gaps starkly spelled out by their symbolic cemetery. For despite the Pentagon's boast that it can fight and win two conventional wars, US forces are seriously overstretched. 'We don't have the manpower to sustain the war in Iraq,' says Eric Ellis, a Vietnam veteran who helped to start Arlington West. 'In Vietnam we had 550,000 troops. We rotated them every year. We had to do one combat tour. Now we have 130,000-odd troops in Iraq. They do a tour, come home, then go back...

http://makeashorterlink.com/?T29F21759


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Marjorie Cohn

TruthOut

09/20/04

The central theme of the Republican Convention was Bush's bona fides as a tough president who will save us from another terrorist attack. Instead of examining why we went to war with a country that posed no threat to us, the agenda was replete with rhetoric about fighting the terrorists in Iraq so we wouldn't have to fight them here. Significantly absent from the patriotic speeches was the 't' word. Not even a brief acknowledgement that prisoners in American custody were mistreated. Torture is on the back burner. Every so often, another official report comes out, with more disturbing revelations, but never directly implicates Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/092004A.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Press Release - Guardian Poll

Today’s latest opinion poll for the Guardian, which shows that 71% of the British people are calling a date for the withdrawal of UK Troops from Iraq, is a vindication of the two-year campaign waged by The Stop The War Coalition for the end of the illegal occupation of Iraq. It is now beyond question that the Tony Blair and George Bush do not have the support of the people for their actions.

On the 17th October, Stop The War, with The Muslim Association of Britain and CND will be holding a mass demonstration calling for an end to the war and a withdrawal of troops.

Supported by the 20,000 people who will be attending the European Social Forum taking place at Alexandra Palace at the same time, this will be the largest Anti war demonstration in London in 2004 and will show that the will of the people to end, what Kofi Annan has described as an illegal war, remains as strong as ever.

NB: The route of the march has been agreed by the police. It will begin at Russell Square and end at Trafalgar Square going via the Houses of Parliament and Downing Street.

At the rally at the end of the march there will be musical performances from Peter Docherty, previously from the Libertines, The Asian Dub Foundation and Massive Attack.

Press Inquires to Stop the War

0207 278 6694
07711 156 881
07939 242229 Andrew Burgin
07810 540584 Lindsey German
office@stopwar.org.uk

The Bush's administration's internal intelligence assessment is far more pessimistic about the war than the president has been in public.

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/19/Opinion/The_truth_about_Iraq.shtml


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