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<DIV><STRONG>Ret. U.K. Army Head Slams U.S. Iraq Policy: </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>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," <BR><A
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<DIV><STRONG>General backed over US attack : </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>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.<BR><A
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<DIV><STRONG>'Surge' units set to exit Iraq by August '08 : </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>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.<BR><A
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<DIV><STRONG>Some see 'coup' as Iraq's best hope: </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>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<BR><A
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<DIV><STRONG>De Palma's Iraq war film stuns Venice festival: </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>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. <BR><A
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<DIV><STRONG>Pentagon confirms missile incident: </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>Pentagon officials confirmed today that an Air Force C-130 carrying
Alabama lawmakers in Iraq was fired upon by surface-to-air missiles on Thursday
night.<BR><A
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<DIV><STRONG>Walt & Mearsheimer's Proof That 'Tail Wagged the
Dog':</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>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?<BR><A
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