Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,205,025"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,064
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$517,367,146,896
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
 
By Gareth Porter
 
Three weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19872.htm
 
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Iran: Will it be jaw-jaw or war-war?
 
  By Pat Buchanan
 
“It would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capacity,” Mullen declared. A second U.S. carrier just entered the Persian Gulf.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19874.htm
 
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Doubting the “Evidence” Against Iran
 
By MARK KUKIS AND ABIGAIL HAUSLOHNER/BAGHDAD
 
For years, U.S. officials have aired accusations against Iran, insisting that Tehran is stoking Iraq’s violence by keeping up a flow of money, weapons and trained fighters into the country. The Iraqi government, however, remains unconvinced – with good reason.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19876.htm
 
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Rattling the Cage
 
Daniel Pearl’s Last Words, Uncensored
 
By LARRY DERFNER
 
“We Americans cannot continue to bear the consequences of our government’s actions, such as the unconditional support given to the State of Israel. Twenty-four uses of the veto power to justify massacres of children. And the support for the dictatorial regimes in the Arab and left-wing world. And also the continued American military presence in Afghanistan.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19877.htm
 
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Iraq: At least 61 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
Militants attacked an Iraqi Army checkpoint, killing 10 soldiers and wounding 13 others on Monday in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL06909301
 
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Iraqi civilians flee fighting in Baghdad militia stronghold:
 
The American push in the Sadr City district – launched after an Iraqi government crackdown on armed Shiite groups began in late March – is trying to weaken the militia grip in a key corner of Baghdad and disrupt rocket and mortar strikes on the U.S.-protected Green Zone.
tinyurl.com/4wb7z8
 
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Iraqi soldiers close hospital: detain dozens of police:
 
Iraqi soldiers detained dozens of policemen and closed down a hospital suspected of treating Shi’ite militiamen in a Baghdad stronghold of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army, Iraqi security officials said.
tinyurl.com/4utqsr
 
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Back to Square 1 on soldiers’ safety?:
 
New weapon penetrates pricey vehicle, kills 2 GIs: The deaths of two U.S. soldiers in western Baghdad last week have sparked concerns that Iraqi insurgents have developed a new weapon capable of striking what the U.S. military considers its most explosive-resistant vehicle.
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5756202.html
 
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Kurdish rebels threaten suicide attacks against US :
 
Kurdish rebels could launch suicide attacks against American interests to punish the U.S. for sharing intelligence with Turkey after Turkey bombed rebel bases, a spokeswoman for a wing of a rebel group warned
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_kurdish_rebels
 
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US House Democrats favor timetable for Iraq troops:
 
Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives have agreed on a plan to fund the Iraq war into next year but included a provision to withdraw combat troops by the end of 2009, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06342902.htm
 
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House bill would restrict U.S. reconstruction dollars:
 
A new war spending bill proposed by House Democrats would prohibit using U.S. aid to rebuild towns or equip security forces in Iraq unless Baghdad matches every dollar spent, lawmakers said Tuesday.
www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20080506-1420-us-iraq.html
 
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Neoconservative Lawrence Kaplan: ‘I Don’t See Anything Good That Has Come from this War”:
 
In 2003, Lawrence Kaplan, a leading neoconservative, helped deliver arguments that justified the invasion of Iraq. Afterwards, he spent two years in the war zone. It changed his view:
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,551828,00.html
 
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Iraq in $6.37b deal to replace ageing planes:
 
Iraq yesterday signed two deals worth US$5 billion ($6.37 billion) to buy 40 planes from Boeing and 10 planes from Canada’s Bombardier to upgrade Iraqi Airways’ ageing fleet, the finance minister said.
www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=113&objectid=10508341
 
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Iran suspends US talks on Iraq :
 
“Right now, what we observe in Iraq is a massacre of the Iraqi nation by the occupying forces,” Mohammad Ali Hosseini, a foreign ministry spokesman, told a news conference on Monday.
tinyurl.com/6xuyxb
 
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Iran says U.S. aids rebels at its borders:
 
The violence may be driving Tehran’s efforts to back its own allies in Iraq.
tinyurl.com/3fynpd
 
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John Bolton: US should bomb Iranian camps:
 
While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests existed, he said the damage inflicted by Tehran would be “far higher” if Washington took no action.
tinyurl.com/5wxxcv
 
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War pimp alert:
 
Peres: Iran wants to rule the region:
 
Recent language from Teheran is “unacceptable” and, contrary to its repeated denials, Iran is developing a nuclear bomb and wishes to rule the Mideast, President Shimon Peres told a meeting of the Foreign Press Association yesterday.
tinyurl.com/3m4rcc
 
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Iran rejects nuclear inspections unless Israel allows them :
 
“The existing double standard shall not be tolerated anymore by non-nuclear-weapon states,” Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh told a meeting of the 190 countries that have signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1398628
 
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Iran cites Israeli nuclear activity as example of world’s hypocrisy:
 
Tehran says stringent IAEA inspections unfair as Israel not partner to non-proliferation treaty, claims western countries practice ‘nuclear apartheid’
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3539989,00.html
 
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Russia, China Criticize Britain Over Remarks On Iran:
 
The British ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, John Duncan, came in for some sharp criticism from Russia and China for distorting reports about the decisions of G5 plus Germany on Iran’s nuclear program.
tinyurl.com/4cjymm
 
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Juan Cole: Clinton’s Iran Comments “Monstrous”:
 
I had complained at the time that this diction is monstrous. I mean, it is surreal to have Democrats discussing whether it is appropriate for the US to “totally obliterate” another country.
tinyurl.com/3hrmkn
 
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Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian resistance member: :
 
Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike killed a Hamas militant in Gaza early Tuesday.
www.dailynews.lk/2008/05/07/wld05.asp
 
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We didn’t mean to kill them:
 
Israel says it doesn’t mean to kill Palestinian children, yet they keep on dying
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3539098,00.html
 
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US Backed Palestinian Unit Battles Armed Groups in West Bank:
 
The operation marked the first major test for a group of Presidential Guard officers who are at the forefront of a $28 million U.S. effort to bolster the Palestinian Authority’s security capabilities through training and equipment.
tinyurl.com/3znp74
 
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12 killed in air strikes in north Darfur, aid group says:
 
“I am deeply perturbed by the reported bombings of a school, water installations and a market where civilians, especially women and children are present,” she said in a statement.
tinyurl.com/4w4kd7
 
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Two killed in Somalia riot over food:
 
Troops fired into thousands of rioting Somalis on Tuesday, killing two people in the second day of protest over soaring food prices
www.gulfnews.com/region/Somalia/10211140.html
 
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Georgia says Russia war is ‘close’ :
 
Russia’s deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia is bringing the prospect of war much closer, a Georgian minister has said.
tinyurl.com/5umqtx
 
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Americans ‘stole my life from me’:
 
Sitting in his Damascus flat, where he now lives as a refugee, he speaks of humiliation, of casual inhumanity.
tinyurl.com/5zgqvg
 
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Under U.S. Law Torture is Always Illegal:
 
Why John Yoo and Other Top Administration Lawyers Should be Investigated for War Crimes
www.counterpunch.org/cohn05062008.html
 
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Report Confirms Psychologists Supported Illegal Interrogations In Iraq and Afghanistan:
 
Uncensored documents from the Church Report, obtained as a result of the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, include new details exposing the role of psychologists in military interrogations.
www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/35111prs20080430.html
 
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Cheney’s Chief Of Staff, Subpoenaed To Discuss Interrogation Practices:
 
A former Justice Department lawyer who wrote a now-repudiated memo allowing harsh interrogations of military prisoners has agreed to testify to Congress about those practices
tinyurl.com/4mfxcr
 
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Mortgage crisis ‘threat to economy’ :
 
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US central bank, has said that the rising cases of late mortgage payments and home foreclosures pose considerable dangers to the US economy.
tinyurl.com/5o8335
 
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Government would take control of refinanced loans under Democrats’ housing bills:
 
The House of Representatives will take up legislation Wednesday that would broadly address the nation’s housing crisis and could have the government assume control of up to $300 billion in refinanced home loans to be given to distressed homeowners.
www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/36049.html