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Robert Fisk:
For the people on the streets, this is not liberation but a new colonial oppression
America's war of 'liberation' may be over. But Iraq's war of liberation from the Americans is just about to begin
17 April 2003
"It's going wrong, faster than anyone could have imagined. The army of 'liberation' has already turned into the army of occupation. The Shias are threatening to fight the Americans, to create their own war of 'liberation'."
... from The Independent.

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Mondo Washington
by James Ridgeway
Quote of the Week
The Philosophy of Rumsfeld
April 16 - 22, 2003

"Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things."

—Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, amid the Baghdad sacking on April 11

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Mondo Washington
by James Ridgeway
Our Man in Baghdad
That's Saddam We're Talking About
in The Village Voice, April 15th, 2003 12:00 PM
"I thought I was losing my mind."

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Carving Up The New Iraq
By Neil Mackay
The Sunday Herald
Tuesday 15 April 2003
"This isn't a selfless exercise. In a special Sunday Herald investigation, we have charted the network of financial kickbacks, political pay-backs, cronyism, self-interest and ferocious ideology that underpins the entire reconstruction scheme."

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R. James Woolsey: War-hungry non-combatant
Bill Berkowitz - WorkingForChange
"In an April 10 New York Times column, Bob Herbert wrote that several Bush Administration advisors stand to benefit financially from the rebuilding of Iraq. Woolsey was one of those mentioned."

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The Village Voice
Press Clips
by Cynthia Cotts
News of the Dirty War
Stories the Censors Could Not Sink
April 9 - 15, 2003

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How America Lost the War
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Monday 14 April 2003

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Comment
Bomb before you buy
What is being planned in Iraq is not reconstruction but robbery
Naomi Klein
Monday April 14, 2003
The Guardian

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