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WAR: About that War

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UPI

The long cable about the stark realities of life in Baghdad from U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalizad reproduced in the Washington Post Sunday should serve as a corrective to the wave of renewed optimism that has swept Washington about the Iraq wa

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The Observer

After three inmates killed themselves, the Pentagon declared the suicides an act of 'asymmetric warfare', banned the media and went on a PR offensive. But as despair grows within the camp, so too does outrage mount at its brutal and secretive

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New York Times

What really happened in Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005? Marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians, including 10 women and children and an elderly man in a wheelchair. But how and why it happened and who ultimately bears responsibility are matters of profound dispu

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AntiWar.com

Basra in the south of Iraq is beginning to splinter under increasing violence and sectarian divisions. Smuggling of oil on a large scale coupled with increasing violence and the lack of basic services like water and electricity has caused increasi

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Associated Press

The submarine that William T. Mabin was in disappeared while on a mission to attack a Japanese convoy in the last months of World War II. The Navy says a wreck found at the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand appears to be the USS Lagarto.

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Lieutenant Ehren Watada

On Wednesday, June 7th U.S. Army First Lieutenant Ehren Watada became the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to the unlawful Iraq war and occupation. His unit is scheduled to deploy to Iraq in a few days.

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Raw Story (wow!)

An incredibly lengthy "prep book" for discussion of the Iraq war and US efforts to end terrorism has been issued to supporters in Congress. An election year guide for Republicans and Democratic supporters of the war, with many of the

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Associated Press

The Army general investigating whether military personnel tried to cover up any part of the alleged massacre of up to 2 dozen Iraqi civilians in Haditha late last year has completed his report. No information about his findings was provided.

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USA Today

Charles Figley, a Florida State University psychologist who has surveyed Vietnam War veterans about war crimes, says the only thing that surprised him about the Haditha reports was "that anyone was surprised. This is what happens in war."

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Associated Press

[The face in front of the mask.] The U.S. military said the man claiming to be the new al-Qaida in Iraq leader is Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian with ties to Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri. The Afghanistan-trained explosives expert i

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Associated Press

"Generally speaking and despite the gloomy present situation, we find that the best solution in order to get out of this crisis is to involve the U.S. forces in waging a war against another country or any hostile groups," the documen

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Reuters

The number of US military deaths in Iraq has reached 2,500, the Pentagon said, and the military warned it expected the new leader of al Qaeda in Iraq to continue the bloody tactics of his slain predecessor. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have also been

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Daily Telegragh

The Territorial Army has suffered a drastic loss of experienced personnel with almost 16,000 troops quitting since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. The reserve army, which has been widely used to support un

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By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

President Bush, just back from Iraq, dismissed calls for a U.S. withdrawal as election-year politics and refused to give a timetable or benchmark for success that would allow troops to come home.

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