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Assessing the ‘Surge’: A Survey of Baghdad Neighborhoods: To study the ground-level effects of the American troop buildup, reporters and video journalists for The New York Times visited Baghdad's neighborhoods, interviewing residents, Americans on patrol and Iraqi officials. To explore the videos and written reports, select a neighborhood ... .
 

Mother Wants Explanation for Son's Death in Iraq: The mother of a soldier who died in a Baghdad vehicle accident weeks after co-writing a New York Times op-ed piece -- wants the Army to explain his death.

The August 19th editorial co-written by 28-year-old Sergeant Omar Mora was critical of the Pentagon's positive assessment of the Iraq war.
 

An Open Letter to the New Generation of Military Officers Serving and Protecting Our Nation
By Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF: We see the current Iraq War as having been unnecessary, entered into under false pretenses, and horribly mismanaged by the civilian authorities. Thousands of our brave troops have been needlessly sacrificed in a futile attempt at occupation of a hostile land. ...

The Constitution which we are sworn to uphold says that treaties entered into by the United States are the “highest law of the land,” equivalent to the Constitution itself. Accordingly, we in the military are sworn to uphold treaty law, including the United Nations charter and the Geneva Convention.

Based on the above, I contend that should some civilian order you to initiate a nuclear attack on Iran (for example), you are duty-bound to refuse that order. I might also suggest that you should consider whether the circumstances demand that you arrest whoever gave the order as a war criminal.

We in the U.S. military would never consider a military coup, removing an elected president and installing one of our own. But following our oath of office, obeying the Nuremberg Principles, and preventing a rogue president from committing a war crime is not a military coup. If it requires the detention of executive branch officials, we will not impose a military dictatorship. We will let the Constitutional succession take place. This is what we are sworn to. This is protecting the Constitution, our highest obligation. In 2007, this is what is meant by “Duty, Honor, Country.”
 

Report: US to attack Iran in 8-10 months
 

Under-fire Bush orders partial Iraq pull-out: US President George W. Bush announced Thursday he will pull some 21,500 combat troops from Iraq by mid-2008, but ruled out a full withdrawal and promised an "enduring" US presence there.
 

Was a Covert Attempt to Bomb Iran with Nuclear Weapons foiled by a Military Leak?
 

From: Wayne Madsen Report (subscription-based site) -
Sept. 14, 2007 -- The suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a US Air Force Special Operations Command officer: We live in dangerous times. With fascism comes to inevitability of extra-judicial murders being carried out by the government. The "disappeared" of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia in Henry Kissinger's "Operation Condor" are a bloody testament to extra-judicial killings. And the names Tillman, Westhusing, Kokal, Weiss, and others are now joined by Sergeants Omar Mora and Yance Gray, two authors of an August 18, 2007, New York Times op-ed opposing the Iraq war who were recently killed in a vehicle "accident" in Iraq. Staff Sergeant Jeremy Murphy, another author of the anti-war article, was shot in the head in Iraq while the article was being written. Murphy is recovering from his wounds in a U.S. military hospital.

When the body of Air Force Captain John Frueh was found near his rental car near Badger Peak in northeast Skamania County, Washington on September 8, questions began to be asked. Frueh was assigned to “operations weather” for the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field in Florida. Hurlburt is the headquarters for the Air Force's special forces activities. Frueh was a veteran of special forces combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. He had flown to Portland, Oregon to attend his best friend's September 2 wedding. Frueh was to have returned to Florida on September 4.

Frueh's last reported phone call at Portland airport came on the same day, August 30, that five or six nuclear weapons aboard a B-52 supposedly went "missing" during a flight from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. Frueh's position in the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command "weather operations" would have given him access to a highly classified information.

Police in Washington state immediately ruled out foul play in Frueh's death. A report was floated that he suffered from a "medical condition."

There is something definitely amiss in the U.S. armed forces. George Bush's lickspittle general, David Petreaus, reportedly harbors presidential ambitions. Admiral William Fallon, Petraeus' boss as the Commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is quoted as saying Petraeus is "an ass-kissing little chickenshit," adding "I hate people like that."

It is noteworthy that Fallon was not asked to testify before Congress about Iraq. Every faltering dictatorship experiences internecine feuds within the military. It was true with Czarist Russia, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Colonel's Greece. It is also true with the United States.
 

Were War Critic Soldiers Killed To Send Message?
 

Iraq vet: Bush may yet 'take credit for the sun rising'
 

Video (4 min.), Keith Olbermann's Top 9/11 Story: No Truth, No Consequences
 

Notice of September 12, 2007: Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks
 

Mr Bush, your sheikh is dead
 

IRAQ: No Refuge Within or Outside the Country
 

Grand Theft Iraq: At the end of August, in Dubai and the beginning of September, in London, conferences were held in order to privatize and carve up contracts for every essential service and infrastructure in Iraq. There was not a mega-corporate pig anywhere on earth, seemingly, who did not have its trotters in the trough. As Iraqis flee in an exodus of biblical proportions and die in a genocidal one, US/UK government backed corporate priority is a smash and grab raid of every asset and facility in the “land between two rivers”.
 

More than 1,000,000 Iraqis murdered
 

Military Drills - False Flag Provocation, Attack On Iran?
 

Bipartisan consensus pushes for Iran attack: With the exception of Democrats Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel, Republican Ron Paul (all of whom continue to be routinely shut out by the political establishment, and dismissed by their own party apparatuses), and even more marginal names, the war and "anti-terror" platforms of the leading candidates are malodorously pure fascism, straight out of the Bush-Cheney’s playbook.

What is clear is that the next US president will not only continue but also expand the "war on terrorism" and the "war against radical extremists" into Iran, and beyond. If Bush-Cheney engineer a "next 9/11," crushing political and popular resistance, the war will come even sooner. Both Republican and Democratic Party factions are hell-bent on pushing the same post-Peak Oil geostrategic control agenda, the same false flag terror, and the same propaganda.

With an empire and its survival at stake, the most "unthinkable," apocalyptic and criminal options are "on the table." And the table is getting smaller.
 

Just Ask the Iraqis: Resentment against Americans is undiminished, and has reached such levels that 57 percent of Iraqis say that violence against U.S. forces is acceptable, up six points from when the survey was last conducted in March. In February 2004, only 17 percent of Iraqis said they condoned violence against the Americans in their midst.
 

Petraeus: 'We are not trying to mislead' (No need to 'try'. It just comes naturally.)
 

SOMALIA AND IRAQ SHARED SIMILAR STRATEGIES: Somalia has undergone many of the same techniques used against Iraq in having its country dismembered and re-assembled by the U.S.:

* Demonizing its leader
* Overwhelming force
* Teaching the locals a lesson in Christian compassion
* Placing a bounty on the head of a leader
* Heavy use of commandos in kidnapping operations
* Keeping local factions at odds with each other
* Companies grabbing the loot that was meant for humanitarian aid
* April Glaspie involved with behind-the-scenes U.S. shenanigans

In the past few years, the U.S. has used a method of surrounding certain "enemies" to keep them at bay. This way, no direct military action is necessary, but the U.S. can control an entire region. And, if military intervention is on the books, it will be much easier to attack using nearby countries as a launch pad.

A presence in Iraq puts the U.S. in control of future efforts against Syria, Iran, Palestine and Lebanon. Many former Soviet states have signed on with the U.S. for pocket change and have allowed U.S. military troops in their countries. Russia is now surrounded by U.S. surrogates. With renewed good relations with Pakistan, the U.S. now has military personnel near China.

Somalia was a part of this current method of surrounding U.S. enemies. The Horn of Africa is crucial in the U.S. quest for world hegemony. Ethiopia is firmly in the U.S. camp and now it appears that Somalia may be as well. If you look at a map, you will see that Ethiopia borders Sudan, a thorn in the side of the U.S. Somalia borders Ethiopia and now the U.S. will have much closer sea access to the Horn of Africa if its plans for Somalia come to complete fruition.

In just a few weeks, the Council of Islamic Courts went from running most of the country to an entity that is being hunted by the former powerless government. The Council has initiated resistance. They have been in this position before. But, this time, there are U.S. planes patrolling the area and U.S. commandos on the ground. If the Council is eliminated, the necessary amount of chaos on which the U.S. thrives in dominating foreign countries will return.
 

Qassem: Whoever buys Israeli goods contributes in killing Palestinians
 

Never forget Sabra and Shatila, Never
 

Iraqi volunteers bury more anonymous victims of violence now than during Saddam's rule: CNN
Before the US invasion of Iraq deposed dictator Saddam Hussein, the volunteers buried up to 40 people every month. In the war's worst months, that figure increased 50-fold as volunteers buried an average of more than 2,000 anonymous war victims... .
 

Iraqi oil minister vows tenders this year even if new law isn't ready
 

U.S. Secret Air War Pulverizes Afghanistan and Iraq: The U.S. military is increasingly relying on deadly air strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan as the ground occupations fall apart, killing untold numbers of civilians.

The Iraqi air force is virtually non-existent. It has no combat aircraft and only a handful of transports.
 

U.S. may end up with even more troops in Iraq
 

EDUCATION-IRAQ: Back to School, Back to Horror: "God knows how we could send our kids to school this year," Um Mohammed, a mother of five in Baghdad told IPS. "Our financial situation is the worst ever and the prices are way too expensive for the majority of Iraqis to afford. I might have to keep some of them at home and send only two."

The 40-year-old woman shed tears when she started to talk about the family’s financial now compared to what it was before the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

"My God, don’t those Americans have any conscience? We were not rich before, but life was easy and we used to celebrate the school season, watching our kids trying their uniform on and looking at the colourful pictures of their new books," she said.
 

Colin Powell Warns Of the "Terror Industrial Complex"
 

Petraeus Report Means More Soldier Suicides