Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

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04.12.2006 BBC 5 Iraq's national security adviser says he is shocked by UN head Kofi Annan's suggestion that the
average Iraqi is worse off than under Saddam Hussein. "If I were an average Iraqi, obviously I
would make the same comparison, that they had a dictator who was brutal but they had their
streets, they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back home without a mother
or father worrying: 'Am I going to see my child again?'
05.12.2006 Uruknet 5 400 Iraqis Killed Daily in Baghdad Alone, Dividing it into Shi'i East and Sunni
West
07.12.2006 Uruknet 5 The farcical Iraq Study Group, also known as the Baker Commission, has
produced nothing. It has come up entirely empty {in contrast to the
enthusiastic reports in the MM}
07.12.2006 Independent 5 a long-awaited report on Iraq recommended that [Bush] seek the help of Iran
and Syria, significantly bolster Iraqi forces and prepare to withdraw most US
troops within 14 months ... to be part of a broader Middle East settlement that
established a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict and provided
peace for Lebanon
07.12.2006 Haaretz 5 Olmert rejects linkage of Iraq war, Mideast conflict
07.12.2006 Guardian 5 UN estimated that 100,000 people were fleeing the country each month, with the
number of Iraqis now living in other Arab countries standing at 1.8 million
07.12.2006 BBC 5 Israel has rejected claims .. that the Iraq crisis cannot be resolved unless the
US also tackles the Arab-Israeli conflict
07.12.2006 Guardian 5 Bush: victory still possible in Iraq - 'We will defeat extremists and radicals'
08.12.2006 Guardian 5 Bush-Blair split on Iraq proposals - President rejects recommendations made
by the Iraq Study Group
08.12.2006 Uruknet 5 The report by the "Iraq Study Group" ... calls for the United States to assist in
privatizing Iraq's national oil industry, opening Iraq to private foreign oil and
energy companies, providing direct technical assistance for the "drafting" of a
new national oil law for Iraq, and assuring that all of Iraq's oil revenues accrue
to the central gov.
09.12.2006 Blog 5 Sen. Gordon Smith, an Oregon Republican, called our Iraq policy "absurd"
and possibly "criminal" in a floor speech
11.12.2006 Telepolis 5 Terroristen keine Soldaten sind, die Krieg führen, sondern als Kriminelle zu
behandeln sind ... Verletzungen, die nach dem Ende des Krieges eintraten, wären
dann unter bestimmten Bedingungen Folgen von kriminellen Akten und müssten,
analog zur Regelung für Verbrechensopfer in Großbritannien, viel höher entschädigt
werden
12.12.2006 Wash Post 5 Poll: 7 of 10 Americans Disapprove of Handling of Iraq War - The other 3
work for the gov. or in the defense industries
13.12.2006 Blog 5 >two thousand years ago, a Spartan king {no, Perikles} resisted pressure to
go to war saying, "I am less afraid of the enemy's strategy than I am of the
mistakes we will make" ... It is painfully obvious that in Iraq, American power
has defeated itself
14.12.2006 Aljazeera D 5 Saudi Arabia told the U.S. it might provide financial aid to Sunni Iraqis if
Washington withdrew its forces from Iraq
15.12.2006 Independent 5 Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war - The
Gov.'s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of
previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's
15.12.2006 Common
Dreams
weapons of mass destruction
5 FLASHBACK: Tony Blair privately conceded 2 weeks before the Iraq war that
Saddam Hussein did not have any usable weapons of mass destruc-tion,
Robin Cook reveals today [Times, 05.10.03]
15.12.2006 X 5 Egypt Releases Name Of American - Grey Warren - Arrested In Terror
Investigation - An American, operating in an Egyptian university, recruiting
Muslims, teaching them, and sending them into Iraq to "carry out operations
via other countries in the region."
16.12.2006 Aljazeera D 5 "We have flags, we have everything, we have (the) logo, so the [US forces]
know everything, but unfortunately they come again and attack us many
times" [in Iraq]
18.12.2006 Uruknet 5 Why isn't the dog barking in Israeli Northern Iraq? ... Could the masked ministry
police murders be CIA Mossad IDF and Kurd operations to achieve a separate Israeli
northern Iraq? ... There is no news ever out of Kurd North Iraq
19.12.2006 Independent 5 The first British soldier to die in combat in Iraq was killed by friendly fire
because of the Army's "unforgiveable and inexcusable" failure to equip him
with body armour
19.12.2006 MM 5 Sen. Hillary Clinton has been hitting the Bush administration hard over the
Iraq war lately, but said she has no regrets over voting for war