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Iraq Report: "A Giant Step Sideways"
The Iraq Study Group may not have a solution for how to end the war, but it does have a way for its corporate friends to make money.

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U.S. Military Targets Anti-War Vets For Demotion
By Stephen Funk
A member of the Iraq Veterans Against the War is accused of misconduct for being openly anti-war.

Flight From Iraq
Joachim Ladefoged talks about the lives of Iraqi refugees in Damascus. Related Article

At Least 130 Die as Blast Levels Baghdad Market
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and QAIS MIZHER
A mammoth truck bomb also wounded more than 300 in the worst of a series of horrific attacks against Shiites in recent weeks.

       The Iraq Study Group report states that continuing military, political and economic support is contingent upon Iraq's government meeting certain undefined "milestones." It's apparent that these milestones are embedded in the report itself.
       Further, the Iraq Study Group would commit U.S. troops to Iraq for several more years to, among other duties, provide security for Iraq's oil infrastructure. Finally, the report unequivocally declares that the 79 total recommendations "are comprehensive and need to be implemented in a coordinated fashion. They should not be separated or carried out in isolation."
       All told, the Iraq Study Group has simply made the case for extending the war until foreign oil companies — presumably American ones — have guaranteed legal access to all of Iraq's oil fields and until they are assured the best legal and financial terms possible.
       We can thank the Iraq Study Group for making its case publicly.
                                                  ANTONIA JUHASZ

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Think Progress » Key Recommendations Of The Iraq Study Group

The Iraq Study Group report is 125 pages long and contains 79 ... At least this has a nicer looking cover than the Strategy for Victory in Iraq PR campaign. ...
thinkprogress.org/2006/12/06/key-isg-findings/

Salt Lake Tribune - It's still all about oil in Iraq

It's still all about oil in Iraq. By Antonia Juhasz ... The report makes visible to everyone the elephant in the room: that we are fighting, ...
www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_4806431

Despite the mainstream media's sound and fury, many analysts say the report has little to do with leaving Iraq any time soon. Instead, they fear the report's diligent research and assiduous recommendations serve to obfuscate the depth of the US-created crisis, change the nature of the occupation, pave the way for multinational privatization of Iraq's resources, and distract from increasingly stentorian calls for immediate withdrawal.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206A.shtml

“As the country falls into civil chaos, attacks by Iraqis against other non-military, non-official Iraqis are probably the fastest-growing type of violence in the country. Yet in the Pentagon’s newest report on the state of Iraq, that violence does not exist.”

The ISG report was particularly elucidating in this respect. “A murder of an Iraqi is not necessarily counted as an attack,” the report explained.” If we cannot determine the source of a sectarian attack, that assault does not make it into the database. A roadside bomb or a rocket or mortar attack that doesn’t hurt U.S. personnel doesn’t count. For example, on one day in July 2006 there were 93 attacks or significant acts of violence [officially] reported. Yet a careful review of the reports for that single day brought to light 1,100 acts of violence.” And it’s with this count that yesterday’s discouraging report was released. The Iraq Study Group did recommend an alternative approach.

Recommendation 77: The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense should devote significantly greater analytic resources to the task of understanding the threats and sources of violence in Iraq.

Recommendation 78: The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense should also institute immediate changes in the collection of data about violence and the sources of violence in Iraq to provide a more accurate picture of events on the ground.

So far, the standards of measurement remain the same.
As a result, as bad as the news seems, the reality is even worse.
So this is what the ISG meant by ‘underreporting’ http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/wp-print.php?p=9387

Iraq: End the Occupation | Dec. 12
Phyllis Bennis: PBS News Hour w/Jim Lehrer

in a roundtable discussion regarding the Iraq Study Group, arguing the report merely reaches for diplomacy to maintain occupation without exploring withdrawal.
Audio and video from the show available.
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