Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

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20.11.2006 X 5 [in 1969] the streets of Washington DC and San Francisco were filled with a
million protesters against the US war in Vietnam - Clearly Congress does not
fear the voters, so maybe it is time they fear the people
21.11.2006 Uruknet 5 Dr. Alim Yacoub of Basra University conducted a study on the malignancies of
children in Basra .. that "found from 1990-1999, there was a 242% rise. That was
before the recent invasion. Because conditions now are so chaotic in Iraq, only a
small fraction of both cancer and birth defects due to DU are reported
21.11.2006 Uruknet 5 For 13 years Dhafir worked tirelessly to help publicize the plight of the Iraqi people
and to raise funds to help them. [He] donated 1.25 million dollars of his own money
over the years. As an oncologist, he was also concerned about the effects of
depleted uranium on the Iraqi population that experienced skyrocketing cancer rates.
For the crime of breaking the U.S. and U.K. sponsored UN sanctions on Iraq and
sending humanitarian aid to sick and starving civilians, Dhafir was .. sentenced to 22
years in prison
21.11.2006 NY Times 5 US Considers Raising Troop Levels in Iraq - Remember all that pre-election
talk about bringing the troops home? Good thing you didn't fall for it. You
didn't fall for it, right?
22.11.2006 UN 5 Iraq: over 3,700 civilians killed in October in new monthly high
22.11.2006 Uruknet 5 leading Democrats pledged their eagerness to work closely with the Bush
administration in forging a bipartisan policy to continue the occupation of Iraq,
and voiced their support for a substantial increase in the military budget and
the recruitment of more Army troops
22.11.2006 Guardian 5 Foreign secretary 'confident' control of southern Iraq may be handed to Iraqi
forces in early 2007
22.11.2006 Berlingske 5 Britisk håb om tilbagetrækning er kun et håb, siger udenrigsministeren – Irakpolitik
uændret {husk returbilletten}
23.11.2006 Uruknet 5 In the deadliest attack since the beginning of the Iraq war, suspected Sun-ni-
Arab militants used 3 suicide car bombs and 2 mortar rounds on the capital's
Shiite Sadr City slum to kill at least 145 people and wound 238
24.11.2006 Berlingske 5 Per Stig Møller: Danske soldater trækkes hjem, hvis briterne forlader Basra
24.11.2006 Yahoo 5 Not long after he landed in the capital of Hanoi, [Bush] explained that the
American departure from Vietnam, >30 years ago, should teach
perseverance in Iraq. "We'll succeed," he said, "unless we quit"
26.11.2006 Aljazeera D 5 When one U.S. soldier was kidnapped earlier this month in Baghdad, U.S.
forces immediately launched a wide search and rescue operation ... but took
no action to stop the kidnapping of tens of thousands of Iraqis which took
place over the past few months
26.11.2006 X 5 Followers of the militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took over state-run
television Saturday to denounce the Iraqi government, label Sunnis
"terrorists" and issue what appeared to many viewers as a call to arms
26.11.2006 NY Times 5 The report estimates that groups responsible for many insurgent and terrorist attacks
are raising $70-200 million a year from illegal activities. It says $25-100 million of that
comes from oil smuggling and other criminal activity involving the state-owned oil
industry, aided by ―corrupt and complicit‖ Iraqi officials - The Bri-tish thought the
colonials aiding G. Washington were "corrupt and complicit"
27.11.2006 Newsday 5 Beware the lure of 'phased withdrawal' - Nixon tried it in Vietnam, once most
agreed the war was lost, and it cost 20,000 US lives
28.11.2006 Independent 5 It is strange how in Iraq slaughter soon seems to be part of normal life
28.11.2006 Yahoo 5 [Bush:] " I'm not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is
complete ... We can accept nothing less than victory for our children and our
grandchildren" - Dear idiot. What is the mission? How do you define 'victory'?
28.11.2006 Antiwar 5 Despite the US command's announcement that it would seek to curb abuses
by Iraqi commando units, the US military has been extremely tolerant of the
most abusive unit of all – the notorious Wolf Brigade – because it regards it
as highly effective against the insurgents
29.11.2006 IraqWar 5 Iraqi Resistance shoots down US F-16 jet fighter with Strela rockets after it
dropped cluster bombs on Resistance positions near al-Fallujah
01.12.2006 Times 5 British Army officers in Iraq are being handed stashes of up to £100,000 in
cash for ―operational expenses‖ without formal controls on how it is spent
01.12.2006 MM 5 The Portland City Council unanimously passed a long-discussed resolution
today calling on the Bush administration to immediately withdraw U.S troops
from Iraq
04.12.2006 Berlingske 5 Berlingske Tidendes chefredaktør og to journalister er blevet pure frifundet i
FE-sagen ... Dommeren og de to domsmænd var enige om afgørelsen