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[Lee Loe]

Ret. U.K. Army Head Slams U.S. Iraq Policy: 
 
Gen. Sir Mike Jackson, who retired in August 2006 as chief of the general
staff, said Rumsfeld was "one of those most responsible for the current
situation in Iraq," 
http://tinyurl.com/yrs9dx
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General backed over US attack : 
 
Politicians and military figures have thrown their weight behind General Sir
Mike Jackson after he launched a scathing attack on the US for mishandling
the aftermath of the Iraq war.
http://tinyurl.com/yw95q5
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'Surge' units set to exit Iraq by August '08 : 
 
Commanders in Iraq are drawing up a plan to withdraw U.S. troops to
"pre-surge levels" at the rate of about one brigade per month, which would
keep the last of the surge troops in the country until August, Army Lt. Gen.
Ray Odierno said Friday.
http://tinyurl.com/2n7fvx
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Some see 'coup' as Iraq's best hope: 
 
In the lobbies of luxury hotels and the apartments of exiles, an assortment
of Iraqi politicians has been spending the summer vacation plotting a new
Iraqi coup
http://tinyurl.com/24u64w
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De Palma's Iraq war film stuns Venice festival: 
 
BRIAN De Palma, the director of Hollywood hits such as Mission: Impossible
and Scarface, stunned the Venice Film Festival yesterday with a harrowing
film about the Iraq war. 
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1391272007
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Pentagon confirms missile incident: 
 
Pentagon officials confirmed today that an Air Force C-130 car-rying Alabama
lawmakers in Iraq was fired upon by surface-to-air missiles on Thursday
night.
http://tinyurl.com/ys67fl
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Walt & Mearsheimer's Proof That 'Tail Wagged the Dog':
 
It is progressive American Jews who as much as anyone ought to be morally
and spiritually engaged by this book. I hope that the JJ Goldbergs and Dan
Fleshlers and Seymour Hershes and Glenn Greenwalds and Jerrold Nadlers of
the world (none of whom supported this war) will at last turn on the neocons
openly and say, Your wrongheaded policies about Israel are a big reason our
country is in Iraq, how do you answer?
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/09/more-on-walt-me.html
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