(Untitled)- November 30, 2006 Powell says world should recognize Iraq at civil war (Diala Saadeh, Reuters, November 29, 2006) Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday Iraq had descended into civil war and urged world leaders to accept that "reality". . . . Powell's remarks came ahead of a meeting between Bush and Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki in the Jordanian capital to discuss the securityhttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/11/powell-says-world-should-recognize.html (Untitled)- November 28, 2006 Marine Corps Admits Defeat in Anbar Province (Dafna Linzer and Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post, November 28, 2006) The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda's rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military's missionhttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/11/marine-corps-admits-defeat-in-anbar.html (Untitled)- November 26, 2006 Iraq War Longer Than U.S. Invlovement in World War II (Michael Moore, 26 November 2006) Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in all of World War II. . . . That's right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it's taken the world's only superpower to secure the road from the airport to downtownhttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/11/iraq-war-longer-than-u.html (Untitled)- November 23, 2006 Monthly Iraqi civilian deaths exceed 3 Year U.S. military death total (Ameer N. Yacoub, ABC News, 22 November 2006) The United Nations said Wednesday that 3,709 Iraqi civilians were killed in October, the highest monthly toll since the March 2003 U.S. invasion and another sign of the severity of Iraq's sectarian bloodbath. . . . The U.N. tally was more than three times higher than the total Thehttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/11/monthly-iraqi-civilian-deaths-exceed-3.html (Untitled)- November 4, 2006 Iraq Descending To Chaos. Military Times Calls For Rumsfeld To Go (Brent Budowsky, BuzzFlash, 4 November 2006) This past week something extraordinariny and ominous happened. An American soldier was kidnapped. Going all out to leave no one behind, our mlitary established checkpoints. What happened next The government in Iraq, under the control of pro-Iranian Shi'ite leaders, surrending to thehttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/11/iraq-descending-to-chaos.html (Untitled)- November 3, 2006 Bush tells Rush he's 'deeply concerned' about the US leaving the Middle East (RAW STORY, November 1, 2006) During an interview with conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh, US President George Bush expressed deep concerns about the possibility of the United States leaving the Middle East, raising fears that extremists could topple governments to "control oil resources." "Give me a second here, Rush,http://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/11/bush-tells-rush-hes-deeply-concerned.html |