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The surging myth: We’re talking 5,000 front line troops not 20,000-and even then. "The idea that shipping twenty thousand more American troops to Iraq can make any real difference to what is already a full scale civil war is risible. Congress and others debating the issue should consider some painful military statistics: first of all, according to the Pentagon’s own figures, every front line soldier requires at least three other military types to back him up: engineers, electricians, medics, bookkeepers, etc. Which means that 20,000 more troops to Iraq works out to only about 5,000 additional American trainers or soldiers actually pulling the triggers." http://barrylando.com/?p=104

America government violating international law targeting diplomats of Iranian government. U.S. forces raid Iranian office in Iraq: Tehran

More than a year ago I have watched a video showing mercenaries shooting at drivers in Iraq. Few of those drivers that were shot at might have been killed or injured on those unprovoked shootings. The fact the greatest terrorist nation in the world hired killers to do whatever they want as long as they provide security to the occupation leaders and Halliburton shows unprecedented arrogant. "What is striking about the current debate in Washington - whether to "surge" troops to Iraq and increase the size of the U.S. Army - is that roughly 100,000 bodies are missing from the equation: The number of American forces in Iraq is not 140,000, but more like 240,000." Barrylando.com

How the escalation in Iraq is both a campaign move and a way to force Sunnis out of Baghdad and into second-class status. By Tom Hayden, HuffingtonPost.com. Posted January 9, 2007. Get AlterNet in your mailbox! Advertisement Reserve the Premium Ad Spot!Advertisement Reserve the Silver Ad Spot!Advertisement Be 1 of up to 4 ads in this strip!Advertisement Advertisement AlterNetYour turn Support AlterNet Do you value the information you're getting from AlterNet? Please show your support with a tax-deductible donation. Feedback Tell us how we're doing. Search: Launching the 2008 Presidential Campaign With Ethnic Cleansing in Iraq By Tom Hayden, HuffingtonPost.com. Posted January 9, 2007. How the escalation in Iraq is both a campaign move and a way to force Sunnis out of Baghdad and into second-class status. Tools EMAIL PRINT 35 COMMENTS Share and save this story: Also in War on Iraq Vietnam All Over Again Bobby Muller Bush's Speech Full of Reality-Based Desperation Davi...

"...Somalia: Mogadishu exploded in violence Wednesday morning after insurgents attacked a government barracks during the night and soldiers responded by sealing off large swaths of the city and searching house to house for weapons." http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/10/news/somalia.php

"The Central Intelligence Agency has been authorised to take covert action against Hizbollah as part of a secret plan by President George W. Bush to help the Lebanese government prevent the spread of Iranian influence. Senators and congressmen have been briefed on the classified "non-lethal presidential finding" that allows the CIA to provide financial and logistical support to the prime minister, Fouad Siniora."

"Now a full partner in Washington's "war on terrorism," Zenawi's Ethiopia has one of the darkest human rights records in Africa: just south of Darfur [.pdf] the Ethiopians are conducting a campaign of systematic ethnic cleansing against dissident ethnic groups, such as the Anuak. In the desperately poor and violence-ridden Gambella region, and elsewhere throughout the country, Zenawi is conducting a terrorist campaign against his own people – yet he is now hailed as a great "anti-terrorist" fighter, both by the warlords of Washington and those of Somalia." .............