10 Things the Media is NOT Telling You About Iraq

[Dems Will Win]

1. The Iraqi Parliament, Boycotted By The Sunnis, Voted Last Wednesday on 200 Laws that basically Partition Iraq in 18 Months and Leaves No Oil for Sunnis
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/ap/2006/10/12/africa/ME_GEN_Iraq_Federalism.php

2. The Basra City Council Is Refusing to Step Aside, Defying Maliki
http://www.cfr.org/publication/11001/
http://www.juancole.com/2006/06/maliki-declares-state-of-emergency-in.html

3. The Kurds No Longer Fly the Iraq Flag and Fly the Flag of "Iraqi Kurdistan"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/17/EDG6PKDVMG1.DTL

4. The Iranians have supplied new more powerful IEDs, resulting in greater US kill-ratios
http://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/story?id=1692347&page=2

5. The Shiite Militia Number 700,000 and Will Attack US troops en masse if Bush attacks Iran. The militia leaders often train in Iran with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

6. Al-Sadr is at great odds with al-Maliki and other Shia factions, making resolution without a huge bloodbath almost impossible
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003295503_iraq09.html

7. Bush wrote a Signing Statement, Preventing the Congress from oversight on Pentagon Fraud in Iraq
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/13/121650/389

8. The Reconstruction Has Failed and The Reconstruction Money Will Not Be Added To In 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010200370.html

9. 30% of the oil pumped in the South is stolen by the Shia, who buy more weapons from the Iranians for the upcoming war with the Sunnis and each other.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/11001/
http://www.aina.org/news/2006100394000.htm

10. The Iranians and Turks Have Been Massing on the Northern Borders of Iraq to Go After Kurdistan rebels. There are Turks Inside Northern Iraq Right Now
http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=276712
http://www.aina.org/news/20060924212251.htm

There's plenty of links out there for the missing ones. Fill in the blank for me. This list should be shown to Indies and Repubs. Report back what they say!

Please RECOMMEND IF YOU THINK THESE FACTS ARE IMPORTANT FOR THE MEDIA TO REPORT ON.

[Jacobin]

1. I had to laugh out loud a few minutes ago

Was watching a snippet of Rumsfailed on TV talking to some war college and he said something along the lines of "the war is not progressing in a positive manner at all times as those who study the history of war will know".....forgetting conveniently his prediction beforehand that US troops would only be there for 'weeks, perhaps 3 months'.

What a douche.

What an incredible mess.

[MichiganVote]

3. VietNam then, Iraq today. How could anyone expect anything else?

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Thank you for this. It belongs in the Research forum, where

it will remain accessible and appendable for future use.

[Dems Will Win]

8. So Posted

[Richard Steele]

4. Heads-up: I think that's a TYPO in #6.

Shouldn't the las word be "impossible" rather than "inevitable"?

Sorry to nitpick; kicked and recommended!

[Dems Will Win]

5. thanks

[indepat]

6. Where has all that reconstruction money gone, the money the Congress

ain't got no need or business overseeing.

[bonito]

7. Recommended

And I've heard nothing of the Russian and Italian involvement in the middle east as I read from debkafile.

[PerfectSage]

9. Number Eleven

The War for Neocon Empire is being lost.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of assholes who shirked serving in Viet Nam.

[Justice Is Comin]

10. Also Maliki has ordered the U.S. to release the terrorist captured

who was supposed to be the "high value" target.

US won't even confirm they have him.

This is akin to the Challenger with the fatal o-ring sitting on the pad ready for launch.

[sabra]

11. US released the al-Sadr aide later in the day...

[sabra]

12. Some more just from the past week...

- Media silent on ammo dump attack in Baghdad last week
- Sunni "Al-Qaeda" declared Islamic state in Anbar Province
- Iraqi Parliament has ordered Azzaman Newspaper (similar to NYT in the States) to be shutdown, because they question the gov't
- 40% of Iraq's working class has left the country
- Maliki asked Bush if he still backs him

[Dems Will Win]

13. kick

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