One of Iraq’s top psychiatrists says that more than two years of war, occupation and insurgency have turned the country into possibly the most psychologically damaged place in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9796.htm

Never before has the disconnect between American aspirations for Iraq and the reality on the ground seemed greater than now, in this third scorching summer of frustration and violence.

http://snipurl.com/gyu9


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In a chilling irony, women may actually have fewer rights under Iraq's new, "democratic'' constitution than they did under Saddam Hussein.

http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=97940


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Behind ramparts of concrete and barbed wire, the framers of Iraq's new constitution wrestled yesterday to prevent - or bring about - the federalisation of Iraq while their compatriots in the hot and fetid streets outside showed no interest in their efforts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9772.htm

Christian Science Monitor
by Brendan O'Neill

08/16/05

In America and Britain, the grief of parents who lost sons or daughters in Iraq has become a potent political weapon -- much more so than in other recent wars. In my view, these moms and dads have been badly let down by both sides of the war debate. The war's authors have offered little justification for the sacrifices made by loved sons and daughters in Iraq, which has allowed the families' raw grief to fester into public anger -- and the war's opponents have sought cynically to exploit the families' sorrow for political ends. Currently, Cindy Sheehan is camped outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. And she's determined to stay put until the president tells her exactly what 'noble cause' her 24-year-old son Casey died for in Iraq...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0816/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Houston Chronicle

08/14/05

There were no reporters riding shotgun on the highway north of Baghdad when a roadside bomb sent Sgt. Elizabeth Le Bel's Humvee lurching into a concrete barrier. The Army released a three-sentence statement about the incident in which her driver, a fellow soldier, was killed. Most news stories that day noted it with just a few words. But a vivid account of the attack appeared on the Internet within hours of the crash last Dec. 4. Unable to sleep after arriving at the hospital, Le Bel hobbled to a computer and typed 1,000 words of what she called 'my little war story' into her Web log, or blog, titled Life in this Girl's Army, at http://www.sgtlizzie.blogspot.com ...

http://tinyurl.com/9g2pu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

In the al-Jamia neighborhoods, a US Humvee was purring up the road so we gingerly backed off and took a side street, reports the Independent's Robert Fisk. In this part of Baghdad, you avoid both the insurgents and the Americans - if you are lucky. Yassin al-Sammerai was not.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081305D.shtml

http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/0805/child_080805.htm


Informant: Charles Bremer

The American people -- sheltered for the last two years from some photos of the grim reality of the war in Iraq -- are beginning to see more images of the kind that had previously been suppressed.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/4837586/detail.html


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The US transnational companies are taking over — and they'll benefit for years to come.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1731547,00.html


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