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Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: 'Defense Secretary Leon Panetta s suggestion that the end of the U.S. troop presence in Iraq is part of a success story ignores the fact that ... the U.S. military had planned to maintain a semi-permanent military presence in Iraq. The real story behind the U.S. withdrawal is how a clever strategy of deception and diplomacy adopted by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in cooperation with Iran ... got the United States to sign the U.S.-Iraq withdrawal agreement.'

http://www.truth-out.org/how-maliki-and-iran-outsmarted-us-troop-withdrawal/1324142833



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/15-10

Iraq Exit: 'US Destroyed Country, Now They Are Leaving'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/15-4

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Lame stream media fails on Iraq troop withdrawal
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-iraq-war/lame-stream-media-fails-on-iraq-troop-withdrawal.html

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Obama at Fort Bragg: A Hypocritical Embrace of a Criminal War

By Bill Van Auken

President Barack Obama used his speech to US troops at Fort Bragg, to embrace the nine-year war in Iraq that he had ostensibly opposed and to declare the destruction of the country a 'success.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30009.htm

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US Withdrawal From Iraq: 'In Terms of Destroying Iraq, It s 'Mission Accomplished'

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!: 'The U.S. military may be leaving Iraq, but the U.S. government is not. The U.S. embassy in Baghdad is the largest in the world, and thousands of private contractors will fill the role of the departing U.S. troops. We begin our coverage of the U.S. withdrawal with Sami Rasouli, the founder and director of the Muslim Peacemaker Teams in Iraq, who joins us from the city of Najaf.'

http://www.truth-out.org/us-withdrawal-iraq-terms-destroying-iraq-its-mission-accomplished/1324064022



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Hundreds of Iraqis set alight US and Israeli flags on Wednesday as they celebrated the impending pullout of American forces from the country in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah.

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Iraq s leader becoming a new 'dictator,' deputy warns

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is amassing dictatorial power as U.S. troops leave the country, risking a new civil war and the breakup of the nation, his deputy warned Tuesday.

http://bit.ly/sgf1HW



Former Ambassador: 'US to control Iraq oil always'

American troops will not go far from Iraq - they will be re-deployed to next door Kuwait. 'This is just a re-shuffle of the cards. Americans could always come back because the bases will be kept intact, while 20,000 personnel means that most of the staff will be there,' Ranjit Singh Kalha said.

http://bit.ly/vSUhJu


From Information Clearing House

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In Wake of US Occupation Remains a Devastated Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/14-3

US Weapons Makers Set to Profit from Iraq s Destroyed Forces
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/14-9

As Iraq War Nearly Ends, So Should Afghanistan War
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/12/14-4

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Malaise visible as US military declares war 'over' in Iraq
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10754/

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Secret Accounts of Iraq Massacre Found in Junk Yard

Michael S. Schmidt, The New York Times News Service: 'The Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and gave secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America s time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha ... Four-hundred pages of interrogations, once guarded as secrets of war, were supposed to have been destroyed as the last American troops prepare to leave Iraq. Instead, they were discovered ... at a junkyard outside Baghdad.'

http://www.truth-out.org/secret-accounts-iraq-massacre-found-junk-yard/1323961138



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/12-5



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By Patrick Cockburn

Nouri al-Maliki, will meet tomorrow in Washington so they can claim that the US emerges from the conflict unweakened and leaves behind an increasingly stable, democratic and prosperous Iraq. This is misleading spin.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29949.htm



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Where is the Outrage?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/11/30

Iraq Troop Withdrawal or 'New Phase' of Occupation?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/30-4

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Iraq war flip flop

Wired
by Spencer Ackerman

11/30/11

The White House says it s on track to remove the remaining 15,000 U.S. troops from Iraq by December 31, despite some apparent misreporting from Baghdad - which, um, we breathlessly repeated. In a joint press appearance on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seemed to suggest that U.S. troops might return to Iraq in 2012...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/iraq-war-flip-flop/



Imperialism and oil

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Tim Kelly

12/02/11

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and a cabal of neocon schemers preyed upon the American public s fears, prejudices, and patriotism to support a war that has cost the United States $1 trillion, spread hatred for America across the Muslim world, and resulted in the death of almost 4500 American servicemen and the wounding of tens of thousands more. The butcher s bill has been much higher for Iraqis, with estimates of the dead ranging from 100,000 to over a million...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1112c.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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U.S. forces shot dead two Iraqi civilians south of Baghdad Saturday following a bomb attack on their convoy, Iraq security officials said, while the U.S. military denied its soldiers opened fire.

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From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/15-6



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/27

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Dying for nothing

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

11/03/11

Yesterday I attended a funeral for a friend s mother at Arlington National Cemetery. During the service, my eyes focused on three nearby gravestones - a Lt. Colonel, a 1st Lieutenant, and a captain. The inscriptions on the gravestones stated that all three had served in Iraq and Afghanistan and that all three had died in 2011. I noticed that the captain died at the age of 30...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-11-03.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Iraqi cleric: US seeking to 'occupy' Mideast

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said he is not satisfied with President Barack Obama s pledge to pull all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year, calling it a partial withdrawal because of the thousands of diplomats and security guards who will stay behind.

http://www.theolympian.com/2011/11/04/1863593/iraqi-cleric-blasts-us-policy.html


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