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Interview with Dori Smith on Talk Nation Radio, December 13, 2006

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Journalist Dahr Jamail speaks about the reality of the Iraq Study Group Report and what is going on in Iraq today: US support for death squad militias, US air attacks, and the steady intensification of the violence. If US forces withdrew there may be a potential for the Iraqis to contain the worst perpetrators of violence, but without a major policy change the potential for worsening chaos and wider war persists.

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Recent days have found a media feeding frenzy at the trough of the “National Reconciliation” plan by the US puppet “prime minister” of Iraq, Nuri al-Maliki. This “plan” was clearly a political move orchestrated from within Pentagon and State Department circles in preparation for the upcoming November mid-term elections in the US and has effectively changed, on the ground in Iraq, approximately nothing.

Broadcast by the corporate media and lapped up by US politicians and other groups, the day after it was announced the “plan” had its key element - that of granting amnesty for resistance fighters, removed. Apparently, the “plan” aimed to show some sort of political progress in Iraq.

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