Three in five want troops out as President vows to stay
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=649440


From Information Clearing House

In a worrying sign for the White House, which has tended to paint war critics as unpatriotic, Republican senators appear less reluctant to raise concerns about the way the administration is running the campaign in Iraq.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d1b746e8-e43c-11d9-a754-00000e2511c8.html


From Information Clearing House

Speak to any Iraqi and they will tell you their standard of living has not improved since the toppling of Saddam Hussein two years ago. Many will tell you it has got worse.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4618359.stm


From Information Clearing House

says anti-war tribunal:

The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), a grouping of NGOs, intellectuals and writers opposed to the war in Iraq, on Friday accused the United States of causing more deaths in Iraq than ousted president Saddam Hussein.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/154590/1/.html


From Information Clearing House

As the costs of the Iraq occupation spiral, British and American oil companies meet in secret next week to carve up the country's oil reserves for themselves. Tom Burgis reports.

http://www.thelondonline.co.uk/theline/article.php?articleID=437


From Information Clearing House

http://snipurl.com/ftyu


From Information Clearing House

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062505Y.shtml


Informant: NHNE

The top American commander in the Persian Gulf told Congress on Thursday that the Iraqi insurgency has not grown weaker over the past six months, despite a claim by Vice President Dick Cheney that it was in its "last throes."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9253.htm

06/23/05

The Iraqi insurgency is as active as six months ago and more foreign fighters are flowing in all the time, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said Thursday, despite Vice President Dick Cheney's insistence that the insurgency was 'in its last throes.' Gen. John Abizaid, testifying at a contentious Senate hearing alongside Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, gave his view of the war in response to lawmakers who expressed concern about progress in Iraq and support at home...

http://tinyurl.com/bzdse

from Las Vegas Review-Journal


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp