The "Surge" is not working /.MSM has been lying to you again..

One because Sadir did a cease fire which expires Saturday and 2 because we have been paying 800,000 a day to 80,000 members of a militia not to attack U.S. Troops. Even with that violence has been up, it is just that the media is not reporting it.

These are from Informationclearinghouse.info It is a great news source. Subscribe for free.

I removed the http on many so it wouldn't be flagged as spam.

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Fort Hood soliders breaking the silence in war in Iraq:

"The honest truth is that if the American people knew what was going on over there everyday, they would be raising their voices too. They would be saying, 'Hey, bring those guys home," Sgt. Selena Coppa said.
http://snipurl.com/1zz1r

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The cease-fire is due to expire Saturday, and there were fears, especially among minority Sunni Arabs, that the re-emergence of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia could return Iraq to where it was just a year ago — with sectarian death squads prowling the streets of a country on the brink of civil war.

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080220/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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US Paying Insurgents Not to Fight

By Paul Craig Roberts
The Bush regime is paying Sunni insurgents $800,000 a day not to attack U.S. forces. That's right, 80,000 members of an "Awakening group," the "Sons of Iraq," a newly formed "U.S.-allied security force" consisting of Sunni insurgents, are being paid $10 a day each not to attack U.S. troops. Continue
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19384.htm

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Iraq: At least 17 killed in another bloody day.

Five people were killed and 16 others wounded when a barrage of rockets hit areas near Baghdad's international airport on Monday, including the U.S. Camp Victory military base
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=50931

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Turkey Plans To Invade Northern Iraq :

The Turkish military said it is setting the ground work for a large-scale ground invasion into northern Iraq targeting the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
tinyurl.com/2f5skl

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Turkey says military operation on N. Iraq imminent :

"We are open for a ground military operation but the timing is important to us and we will take our decision based on the weather," Babacan said and noted that the armed forces have full authority in this respect.
tinyurl.com/28sw3z

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Car bomb kills one in Afghanistan's Kandahar :

A remote-controlled car bomb blast on Tuesday shook the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, still reeling from attacks in the area which have killed scores of people in the past two days.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080219/ts_nm/afghan_violence_dc

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Taliban defeat will take years: US general :

An insurgency led by the Taliban, who were in government between 1996 and 2001, has been growing in the past two years with a spike in suicide attacks and roadside bombings.
tinyurl.com/2an5yz

Kosovo Serbs Torch U.N. Checkpoints :

Chanting "Kosovo is Serbia," thousands of Serbs marched Tuesday to a bridge dividing them from ethnic Albanians while others torched U.N. border checkpoints and cars to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence.
tinyurl.com/24ruq2

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Russia: Kosovo Tipped World Order:

The chief of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff, Army General Yuri Baluyevski, warned on Tuesday that recognizing Kosovo's independence causes an international chaos.
http://tinyurl.com/ywwevd

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Serbia withdraws more ambassadors over Kosovo:

Serbia has ordered its ambassadors to Washington, London, Paris and Ankara to return to Belgrade for consultations in retaliation for recognition extended to Kosovo as an independent country, the foreign ministry in Belgrade said Monday evening.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=50108

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The U.S. Military Index :

Foreign Policy and the Center for a New American Security surveyed more than 3,400 active and retired officers at the highest levels of command about the state of the U.S. military. They see a force stretched dangerously thin and a country ill-prepared for the next fight.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4198