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Who's Losing Iraq?
Maureen Dowd New York Times August 31, 2003
August 31, 2003, Summary: With US military and Iraqi civilian casualties mounting in Iraq, with the onset of a secular civil war, and with no water, power, and police services, Maureen Dowd asks who is losing, and who is winning, the costly 2003 Gulf War? ...
Gulf War Casualty Count and Costs
August 31, 2003
August 29, 2003, Summary: Gathered from various official, news, and other web sites, here is the latest casualty count of United States and United Kingdom military personnel and Iraqi civilians and military personnel along with a link to the most recent estimates of how much President Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq may cost ...
Four-Star Rating for Wesley Clark
Robert Kuttner Los Angeles Times August 30, 2003
August 29, 2003, Summary: In what could shake up the 2004 Presidential Election, retired General Wesley Clark may decide to run for the White House, and he is also a tough critic of Bush's foreign policy ...
LA Times: Deepening Doubts on Iraq
Editoral Board Los Angeles Times August 30, 2003
August 29, 2003, Summary: "Where are the weapons of mass destruction? And if they are not found, was the defiant U.S. insistence that Iraq had them the result of incompetence or lies?"
General Clark: US to Blame for Iraq "Chaos"
British Broadcasting Corporation August 30, 2003
August 28, 2003, Headline: "The former commander of Nato forces in Europe, General Wesley Clark, says American policy has 'created chaos' in Iraq."
The Foot Soldiers are Rebelling
Peter Preston Guardian (UK) August 30, 2003
August 25, 2003, Headline: "The foot soldiers are rebelling: Getting into Iraq proved easy. Getting out is already a nightmare." The hearts and minds of US soldiers are changing -- against the war. The hearts and minds of Iraqis in are changing -- against the never-ending US occupation and against the brewing Civil War within Iraq ...
One-Third of Iraq War Spending Goes to Bush's Campaign Donors
Michael Dobbs Washington Post August 30, 2003
August 28, 2003, Summary: Who stands to make enormous profits from a protracted war and occupation, based on a no-bid "cost plus cost percentage" contract (an open-ended contract where the more the contractor spends, the more the contract earns in profits)? That's right, Vice President Cheney's Halliburton plus the Gas, Oil, and Pipleline industry. Where's the Iraqi nuclear bombs and chemical and biological weapons? There never were any, because this war is sponsored, in part, by corporate lobbyists stealing one-third off the top of the $4 billion dollars President Bush spends of our tax dollars each month in Iraq. This is Bush's limited vision of privatizing the US and the world ...
How Bush Maniuplates Using Fear; and How We Can Overcome and Prevail with Hope
Renana Brooks The Nation August 30, 2003
June 30, 2003, Summary: This essay disects President Bush's use of fear and negatively
charged emotional language to promote war. This essay should give us pause as to the methods used by the President, and how we can overcome the current climate of fear and war, indivdually, and as a nation, by using hope and a positive vision ...
US "Intentionally" Tore Down Islamic Banner, Triggering Protest, Death of Boy
Theola Labbé Washington Post August 29, 2003
August 29, 2003, Summary: After strong denials for two weeks, a US General confirmed the US military "intentionallly" used a helicopter's downdraft to blow off an Islamic banner from a radio tower in Iraq, triggering a protest where an Iraqi child was killed by US troops ...
Bush Fails on Iraq
Newspaper Editorial Virginian-Pilot (Hampton Roads) August 29, 2003
August 28, 2003, Summary: Here is a newspaper editorial from a conservative region of Virginia with several major military bases. The newspaper wrote that Bush has omitted any admission of failure about his policy to invade and occupy Iraq, especially the intelligence failures (and lies), the length of the war, and the skyrocketing cost of $1 billion per week of taxpayer dollars ...
Bush Shifts Blame for Iraq Failures to Iraqi Defectors
Bob Drogin Charlotte Observer August 28, 2003
August 28, 2003, Summary: In yet another attempt to avoid blame for lying about a war which has killed nearly 300 American soldiers and wounded 4,000 more, President Bush claims his Administration were " totally duped on it" by Iraqi defectors. This adds a Orwellian twist to "blame the victim" ...
Veterans and Supporters: Register to Vote !
Veterans for Common Sense August 26, 2003
Veterans for Common Sense asks you to do your truly patriotic duty and Register to Vote. VCS
wants to assist citizens with registering to vote before the 2004 presidential election. Via a new online voter registration tool, you can register to vote, update your address or change your party registration in a few easy steps. If you've moved or have never been registered to vote before, now's the time !
Saving Face, Losing a War
Harley Sorensen San Francisco Chronicle August 25, 2003
August 25, 2003, Summary: President Bush, in a bout of extreme hubris, exclaimed to the world, "Bring 'em on!" Now, more US soldiers have died since Bush's campaign photo-op aboard the US aircraft carrier in May than died during the invasion of Iraq ...
Growing Opposition to Bush in the US
Julian Borger Guardian (UK) August 25, 2003
August 25, 2002, Summary: A recent Newsweek Magazine poll found 49 percent of Americans "said they were very concerned" about President Bush's unilateral invasion and occupation of Iraq. Furthermor, "Some 49 percent of Americans questioned in yesterday's poll said they did not want him re-elected." The tide of American public opinion has shifted against Bush's war ...
US Cost to Invade and Occupy Iraq May Hit $1.9 Trillion
David R. Francis Christian Science Monitor August 25, 2003
August 25, 2003, Headline: "A tally of US taxpayers' tab for Iraq: The costs of the Iraq war are escalating for the United States." The US budget deficit balloons as President Bush spends $5 billion per month to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ...
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