Where does the Bush-Petraeus strategy lead?

September 2007
Talking to The Real News, Phyllis Bennis dismisses the Bush-Petraeus strategy and demands the end of the occupation of Iraq. All the occupying troops should be pulled out, US bases closed down, and the US should announce it has no intention to control Iraqi oil. The US owes huge reparations to the Iraqi people beginning with the first Gulf War.

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Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies

Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of both TNI and the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC where she directs IPS's New Internationalism Project. Phyllis specialises in U.S. foreign policy issues, particularly involving the Middle East and United Nations. She worked as a journalist at the UN for ten years and currently serves as a special adviser to several top-level UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues. A frequent contributor to U.S. and global media, Phyllis is also the author of numerous articles and books, particularly on Palestine, Iraq, the UN, and U.S. foreign policy.