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So, now that the USA left Iraq can the country rebuild herself and become stable? Related Information to Post War IraqPost Date: 12th Jan, 2007 - 6:43pm / Post ID: #
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GROUNDSWELL OF SUPPORT FOR IRAQ COMMENTS
Most New Zealanders support Jim Anderton's stinging attack on the United States for its decision to send 20,000 more troops into Iraq.
Ref. https://www.stuff.co.nz/hlc/1,,93498~3926846a10~,00.html
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HUSSEIN'S HALF-BROTHER, OTHER CO-DEFENDANT HANGED
Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the chief judge under his Baath Party regime followed him to the gallows early Monday, hanged for their roles in the killings of 148 men and boys after a 1982 assassination attempt, Iraqi government officials said.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/15/...ions/index.html
WHITE HOUSE: WE WILL SEND MORE TROOPS IN IRAQ
President Bush, facing opposition from both parties over his plan to send more troops to Iraq, said he has the authority to act no matter what Congress wants.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/14/US.iraq.ap/index.html
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Well here is a twist - Support from the Arabs for Bush:
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| ARAB STATES VOICE SUPPORT FOR BUSH'S IRAQ STRATEGY Some Arab states are backing U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to send more than 20,000 troops to Iraq to try to stabilize the region. Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200.../arab-iraq.html |
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I am not surprised in the least, several of those Arab nations have a strong tie with the USA, nevertheless right now there is no choice but to send more troops to get things in order, I doubt very much that Bush thought he would face so much opposition when he first decided to get involved with Iraq.
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The Saudis had already *told* Bush that if the US pulls out of Iraq, they will provide support for the Sunni insurgents. Now there is an official "denial" of this by the Saudi government:
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| Saudi Arabia, a US ally, last month denied persistent reports that it might step in to bankroll Iraq's Sunnis against Iran-backed Shiites should US troops pull out swiftly and leave a raging civil war in the country. |
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Here is an interesting comment piece about Iraq and climate change from the Independent newspaper in the UK. It was written by middle-east correspondent Robert Fisk. It can be found in full on the following link.
Robert Fisk: Fear climate change, not our enemies
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| Here are some excerpts: I curl down deep in my bed, because the nights are strangely damp and read by the bedside light, Hans von Sponeck's gripping, painful account of his years as the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, A Different Kind of War, an analysis of the vicious, criminal sanctions regime levelled against the Iraqi people between 1990 and 2003. Here, for example, is what Sergei Lavrov, the Russian ambassador to the UN wrote in March 2000: "...the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in Iraq is inexorably leading to the disintegration of the very fabric of civil society." It was "a situation where an entire generation of Iraqis has been physically and morally crippled". The French ambassador to the UN, Alain Dejammet, spoke similarly of "the very serious humanitarian crisis in Iraq", a crime that would eventually persuade von Sponeck to resign. Another warning. I remember how von Sponeck said the very same words to me in Baghdad. So did Denis Halliday, his predecessor. But when Peter Hain - now so desperately anxious to distance himself from US policies in Iraq - was asked to comment, he said that von Sponeck and Halliday were "obviously not the right men for the job". James Rubin, then earning his keep as Madeleine Albright's spokesman, said that von Sponeck "is paid to work, not to speak". Yet there are all the warnings. Did we really think that after we had impoverished them and destroyed so many of their children; after a generation of Iraqis had been "physically and morally crippled", they were going to welcome our "liberation"? From this wreckage of Iraq was bound to come the insurgencies and the hatreds now tearing its people apart and destroying the presidency of George W. Bush and the prime ministership of Tony Blair. Yet what do they tell us? They still want us to be frightened. Terror, terror, terror. Now we have Doctor Death, our Home Secretary, telling us that the War on Terror could last as long as the Cold War. Recently, it was the Dowager of Fear in charge of our intelligence services who said that the War on Terror could last "a generation". So that's 30 years? Or 60 like Dr Death claimed? Bush claimed it might last "forever", surely an ambitious goal for an ex- governor-executioner. What these men know, of course, while waffling about our "values", is that the only way to lessen the risk of attack in London or Washington is to adopt a moral, just policy towards the Middle East. Failure to do this - and the Blairs and the Bushes clearly have no intention of doing so - means that we will be bombed again. And the words of Dr Death were not a warning to us. They were not intended to prepare us for the future. They were intended to allow him to say "told you so" when the next backpacker murders the innocent on the London tube system. And then we will be told that we need even harsher legislation. And we will have to be afraid. Yes, we must fear. We must wake every morning in fear. We must bend our entire political system into a machine of fear. Organised society must revolve around our fear. Like the terrorologists of old - the Claire Sterlings and Brian Croziers of this world who told us of thousands of terrorists, "bands of professional practitioners dispensing violent death", all trained in Cuba, North Korea, the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe - Dr Death and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara and former foreign secretary Jack "the Veil" Straw (remember him?) - want us to live in fear. They want us to be afraid. I think we should be afraid - of what we are doing to our planet. But we should not fear our enemies in the world. They will return. Our western occupation of so many Muslim lands have assured us of this fate. But if we can now end our injustice in the Middle East, Dr Death's 60 years could be over before he leaves his high office. Now there's a thought. |
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U.S. MILITARY: IRAQI LAWMAKER IS U.S. EMBASSY BOMBER
A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/05/...aker/index.html
Republicans block Iraq war debate
Republicans in Congress block a debate on a bill opposing President Bush's plan to send extra troops to Iraq.
Ref. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/Hi/world/a...cas/6333707.stm
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