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Iraqis Will Be the Deciders

By Marjorie Cohn

As Congress debates whether to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, George Bush is trying to buy time. He and Dick Cheney have no intention of ever pulling out of Iraq.Cheney commissioned a 2000 report by the neoconservative Project for a New American Century, which said ?the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.? A document for Cheney's secret energy task force included a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries, chart read more

Full post as published by Marjorie Cohn on July 19, 2007 (boomark / email).