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Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Tue, 04/17/2007 - 8:31am.
American military personnel have been dying at the highest rate yet over the last six months in Iraq. It's a sign that the situation is worsening there. Here's a story about one retired high-ranking military officer who considers the operations in Iraq to be doomed to failure:
Iraq: American public opinion vs. a "small but powerful group"
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- by Glenn Greenwald

In his important Washington Post Op-Ed this morning, Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Sheehan -- in the course of explaining why he asked not to be considered for the new post of "war czar" in the Bush administration -- has become the latest military expert to warn the country that our military and war policy in Iraq is destined to fail, because it is being controlled by a small band of propagandists who have no coherent strategy for ever leaving Iraq:...

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