OpEdNews - Diary: Intelligence Estimate on Iraq: "US HAS LITTLE CONTROL."

"... an increasingly perilous situation in which the United States has little control and there is a strong possibility of further deterioration, according to sources familiar with the document."

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DIANE'S NEWS CLIPS begins here :)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Excerpted from: http://www.truthout.org Intelligence Estimate on Iraq:

"US Has Little Control" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207B.shtml A long-awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, presented to President Bush by the intelligence community yesterday, outlines an increasingly perilous situation in which the United States has little control and there is a strong possibility of further deterioration, according to sources familiar with the document. --- Steve Hammons | Will Bush, Cheney Attack Iran? When and Why? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207A.shtml Steve Hammons asks: "Despite recent election results reflecting Americans' concerns about the Iraq War and related matters, will George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their associates choose to use US military forces to attack Iran? Or, maybe the correct question is: When will they choose to attack? April? March? February?" --- Robert Dreyfuss | Bush's Trash Talk About Iran http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207N.shtml Robert Dreyfuss writes: "Since President Bush's State of the Union address last Tuesday, the White House has manufactured a crisis that pits the United States against Iran. In what looks like the military and diplomatic equivalent of a full court press, Washington has unleashed a barrage of threats, maneuvers and limited military actions that seem calculated to set the United States on a collision course with Iran in Iraq and the Persian Gulf." --- Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207K.shtml Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobbying group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate-change report due to be published today. --- Swanson and Schwarz | The Bush Investigations http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207E.shtml David Swanson and Jonathan Schwarz write: "Beyond the lies and manipulations that took us to war, and the corruption that has dominated the war, there is a third broad area that needs to be investigated - but much of which won't be without serious public pressure on Congress. This is the area of war crimes: the targeting of civilians, hospitals, ambulances, and journalists; the use of illegal weapons; the detentions, extraordinary renditions, abuse, torture, ghost prisoners; the setting up of a global network of secret CIA prisons; and murder." --- All Schools in England to See Al Gore Climate Film http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020207EA.shtml As a panel of the world's top scientists issued a new report blaming mankind for global warming, the English government has decided to distribute Al Gore's dramatic film, "An Inconvenient Truth," to all secondary schools in England in its fight to tackle the climate crisis. --- US Congress Debates Rebuke for Bush on Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207D.shtml US lawmakers are thrashing out the wording of a draft resolution condemning President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq ahead of the release of a pivotal US intelligence report on the war-ravaged country. --- David Rovics | The First Amendment: Good When You Can Get It http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207O.shtml David Rovics writes: "We live in a class society that operates under the golden rule - those who have the gold make the rules, and everybody else has to stand up for his rights by other means. Those who have the gold declare the wars, consistently lie about the real purpose of the war, and profit from the war. Those without the gold fight and die in the wars ... the smooth operation of any society requires that most people do not see history and reality this way.... if it seems this kind of awareness is spreading, and manifesting itself on the streets, one frequent way to deal with this is through disinformation or omission of information, and both subtle and overt forms of repression." --- Charley James | I Remember Molly http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207C.shtml --- Iraq Surge Could Total 50,000 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207J.shtml A new Congressional report says the increase of 21,500 combat troops for Iraq proposed by the Bush administration could result in up to 50,000 troops actually being deployed to the region. --- Senate Votes to Raise Minimum Wage http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207M.shtml The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to boost the federal minimum wage by $2.10 to $7.25 an hour over two years, but packaged the increase with controversial tax cuts for small businesses and higher taxes for many $1 million-plus executives. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she supports some of the tax provisions in the House package, but would prefer they be put in a separate, House-initiated tax bill. --- Public Pushes Back Against Planned Test on Old Nuke Site http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207P.shtml Suspicious of government assurances that a planned desert explosion will not rekindle the radioactive fallout that caused illness and death in past testing, Westerners, Native Americans, "downwinders" and others want the plan halted. --- Exxon Valdez Oil Persists off Alaska Coast http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020207EB.shtml Lingering crude from the nation's largest oil spill has weathered only slightly in some places, almost 18 years after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground and fouled hundreds of miles of Alaska shoreline, a new federal study concludes. --- Anti-Whaling Ships Say They Have Been Made Pirates http://snipurl.com/197ob _________________________________ Commentary and

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Everyday when I read thru all my newsletters, this thought gets lodged in my head: Meanwhile, the Iraq war rages on. all these people writing and bitching and offering their insights. meanwhile, the war rages on. All those politicians who used the war as a platform and got their way into the House or Senate... why haven't they stopped the war like they said they would? because they have absolutely no intention of doing that. (Secretary of Defense Robert) Gates says we are not planning for war with Iran: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070202/ts_nm/usa_iran_gates_dc Riiiiight. Instead of reading what is written, read what is not said. Read, "No, we're not planning for war (with Iran)." as "The war (with Iran) is already planned." Not planning for war with Iran, eh? But, but, but: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020107C.shtml See? The war with Iran is already planned.

Meanwhile, the Iraq war rages on. Not only are they not going to cease the Iraq operation, they're going to expand the operation into Iran. It's already planned. It appears very obvious that the 'elected' representatives in Congress are NOT going to do anything to bring an immediate stop to the war and bring the troops home as they've all promised. Any thinking to the contrary is wasted time. I hope everyone who marched on Washington recently-- "tens" of thousands-- feels good about themselves and the time they wasted. I also read that most of the Congress people vacated the premises when anti-war activists descended on the Hill to speak with their reps. Big surprise? Hardly. Their absence should be seen by 'We the People' as an intentional snubbing. That alone should have been enough to clue 'We the People' into the fact that Congress is on Bushes side, not the peoples side. Why didn't they stick around to listen to the peoples concerns? Because they don't care, that's why. They don't give a rattling damn about what 'We the People' want. They never have. If they truly did, the war would have never gotten off the ground. The only thing that will bring about an end to the Iraq war is for citizens to march into Washington DC with the intention of overthrowing the government and taking the Capital. This is the battle cry everyone's been waiting for, yet no one is uttering it. This penny-ante Mickey Mouse pitch-a-bitch protest didn't work for Viet Nam and it won't work for Iraq or Iran. If you're gonna march, do it right. We are overrun with Nazis. It's time to kick them out and take back what's left of America before it becomes another illegal Israeli settlement. _________________________________

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