DN!: Pre-War Efforts to Coerce Support for Iraq Invasion//Iraq's Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:08:03 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST March 27, 2008 = = = = = = = = = * Read Amy Goodman's latest column * "Body of War" http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080326_body_of_war/?ln Consider writing your local newspaper and asking for them to carry the column, distributed by King Features. Many papers across the US have done so already. 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Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/27/in_new_book_chilean_ambassador_to * British Correspondent Patrick Cockburn on Iraq's Growing Sectarian Divide and the Myth of "Success" in the US "Surge" * As a new civil war threatens to explode in Iraq between US-backed Iraqi government forces and Shia militiamen, we go to London to speak with Patrick Cockburn, Iraq correspondent for the London Independent. Covering the invasion and occupation from the ground in Iraq for the past five years, Cockburn has been described as ³the best Western journalist at work in Iraq today.² He is author of the new book Muqtada: Muqtada Al Sadr, The Shia Revival and the Struggle For Iraq. 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