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Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month
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A state-of-the-art research study published in October 12, 2006 issue of The Lancet (the most prestigious British medical journal) concluded that–as of a year ago–600,000 Iraqis had died violently due to the war in Iraq. That is, the Iraqi death rate for the first 39 months of the war was just about 15,000 per month.That wasn’t the worst of it, because the death rate was increasing precipitously, and during the first half of 2006 the monthly rate was approximately 30,000 per month, a rate that no doubt has increased further during the ferocious fighting associated with the current American surge.
Voters Believe Iraq Is Creating More Terrorists, Distracting From Domestic Priorities
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ThinkProgress has obtained results of a new poll released yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, a conference hosted by The Atlantic and the Aspen Institute. The poll finds that voters of all parties are overwhelmingly pessimistic about the war in Iraq, believing the United States will fail. The war has distracted from the fight against terrorism and other domestic priorities
Fed Up With War, Some Won’t Pay Taxes
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When the United States invaded Iraq more than four years ago, war opponent David Gross asked his bosses for a radical pay cut, enough so he wouldn’t have to pay taxes to support the war.“I was having a hard time looking at myself in the mirror,” Gross said. “I knew the bombs falling were in part paid with my tax dollars. I had to actually do something concrete to remove my complicity.”
US scholars propose a divided Iraq
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With US war policy clouded by failures, two American scholars have proposed a partition plan that would divide Iraq into three main regions. The authors, Edward P. Joseph of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, are hoping to draw the attention of George W. Bush administration policymakers.
The scholars are circulating their suggestions within the Bush administration, AP reported.
More contractors than troops in Iraq
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The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort and the government’s capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campaigns.More than 180,000 civilians — including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis — are working in Iraq under U.S. contracts, according to State and Defense Department figures obtained by the Los Angeles Times. Including the recent troop surge, 160,000 soldiers and a few thousand civilian government employees are stationed in Iraq.
US military warns Turkey off Iraq raid
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The US military warned Turkey Tuesday against destabilizing northern Iraq by carrying out a threatened cross-border raid on Kurdish rebels.The US armed forces have a “great relationship with the military of Turkey,” said Brigadier General Perry Wiggins, deputy director for operations of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff.
From Cakewalk to Quicksand
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John Lukacs in his monograph, June 1941: Hitler and Stalin, reports that “the best military experts throughout the world predicted the defeat of the Soviet Union within a few weeks, or within two months at the most” following Hitler’s invasion of Russia on June 22, 1941.While the superb German military machine made an excellent showing, by the beginning of 1943 its offensive capability was exhausted and the Germans were defeated at Stalingrad. Germany lost the war one and one-half years before the US could manage the invasion of Normandy. If HItler had not depleted the German Army in Russia, a US invasion of Normandy could not have been contemplated.
Iraqi Official: US ‘behind Baghdad hotel blast’
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An Iraqi official has accused the United States of being behind the suicide bomb that killed at least 12 in a hotel in central Baghdad. Muhammad al-Saberi, Iraqi envoy for talks with tribal leaders in Jordan and Syria, on Tuesday held the Bush Administration responsible for the blast at the Mansour Hotel, where a group of Sunni tribal leaders from Iraq’s Anbar province had gathered to discuss ways and means of curbing ongoing violence in the country.
Iran slams terrorist attack on Samarra
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Iran’s President has slammed the terrorist attack on the holy shrines in the city of Samarra, blaming the occupiers for the ‘brutal act.’ “Unfortunately, under the aegis of the occupiers, the terrorists have once again bombed the holy shrines in Samarra and desecrated the sacred site,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday in Semnan.
The War Goes Ever On
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Is the Iraq war to become a permanent feature?
The war persists despite the opposition of a majority of Americans and Iraqis.
The war persists despite warnings from US generals that the stress is breaking the US Army.
The war persists despite its enormous cost in red ink and dependence on foreign loans.
The war persists despite its total failure.
The war persists despite the known fact that it was based on Bush administration lies and deception.
Torboto, the robot that tortures people
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Torboto is the government’s new secret weapon on terror.
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