The rise of Iraqi death squads

By Mike Whitney

"Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?" one [Pentagon] official asked Hersh. "We founded them and we financed them. The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want." ... The authorization for the death squads comes straight from the Oval Office. ... The final leg on the stool is the propaganda war that is being directed against the American people to conceal the details of the military’s war crimes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11180.htm

Max Elbaum writes that things are coming apart in Iraq. The US occupation is blundering from one crisis to another with no guiding strategy beyond "staying the course." The occupation-fueled Shiite-Sunni conflict is growing in fury, casualties and dangers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/113005K.shtml

The US military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the US mission in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/113005I.shtml

To describe Iraq as the most foolish war of the last 2,014 years is a sweeping statement, but the writer is well qualified to know.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1653454,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The world now knows that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but that hasn't stopped President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney this week from labelling people who accuse them of faking the evidence as 'dishonest,' 'reprehensible,' 'corrupt' and 'shameless.
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http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1519429.htm


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Talk of a jihadist takeover if American troops withdraw is an absurd ploy.

http://tinyurl.com/77ljv


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Hospital personnel are reporting regular raids and interference by the U.S. military as fighting continues in the volatile Al-Anbar province of Iraq. The U.S. raids come as the hospitals face increasing lack of vital supplies and equipment.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31222


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He believed in the fight, his family said, until he entered the war zone.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/13266919.htm


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Here's a story that will disappear until bloggers start talking about it. Only PBS Frontline and Democracy Now! have dared to interview U.S. interrogator Tony Lagouranis, who reports widespread torture and abuse throughout Iraq.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/28/151943/75


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