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21 Aug 06

Bush: No Iraq link to 9/11 found

  • President Bush, having repeatedly linked Saddam Hussein to the terrorist organization behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said yesterday there is no evidence that the deposed Iraqi leader had a hand in those attacks, in contrast to the belief of most Americans.
11 Aug 06

The Nation Mercenary Jackpot

  • Blackwater was
    originally slated to be paid $229.5 million for five years, according to
    a State Department contract list. Yet as of June 30, just two years into
    the program, it had been paid a total of $321,715,794. When confronted
    with this apparent $100 million discrepancy, the State Department could
    not readily explain it.
08 Aug 06

ABC News: Americans Doubt That the U.S. Effort in Iraq Is Improving


  • Fifty-seven percent in this ABC News/Washington Post poll say the war wasay not worth fighting, and just half say the war has improved long-term U.S. security, its basic rationale. When a president's in tough straits, the economy usually is the prime cause; Bush's case instead looks more like Lyndon Johnson's -- an unpopular war.
07 Aug 06

Incalculable pain - Salon

  • Pentagon casualty
    reports

    show 2,390 service members dead from Iraq and Afghanistan and over 16,000 wounded. By far the vast majority of
    the wounded and dead are from Iraq.




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    But by Dec. 8, 2005, the military had evacuated another 25,289 service members from Iraq and Afghanistan
    for injuries or illnesses not caused directly by enemy bullets or bombs, according to the U.S. Transportation
    Command.

Bloomberg - Youth Give Bush Poor Grade

  • A Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll of Americans age 18 to 24
    found Bush's approval rating was 20 percent, with 53 percent
    disapproving and 28 percent with no opinion. That compares to a
    40 percent approval rating among Americans of all ages in a
    separate Bloomberg/Times poll.
06 Aug 06

Byrd attacks cost of possible Iraq war

  • With estimates of the potential costs of a war with Iraq ranging from $30 billion to $200 billion, and the federal deficit rising past $200 billion, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., is waging a war of his own -- against the administration.

The Seattle Times: Politics: Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute

  • the price tag for combat and nation-building since Sept. 11, 2001, to nearly a half-trillion dollars, approaching the inflation-adjusted cost of the 13-year Vietnam War
02 Aug 06

Beaver County Times Allegheny Times - Hard hit

  • However, it isn't just materiel that is being worn out in Iraq. Personnel are, too. The constant combat rotations without adequate recovery time are taking a terrible toll, and not just on the combatants. Their families are under an incredible amount of stress, as well.
01 Aug 06

Army Guard units said not combat ready - Yahoo! News

  • More than two-thirds of the Army National Guard's 34 brigades are not combat ready, mostly because of equipment shortages that will cost up to $21 billion to correct, the top National Guard general said Tuesday.
31 Jul 06

Can TV news make Iraq any more invisible?

  • Are the TV networks fearful of displeasing those in high places, or being labeled advocates of "cut and run" by Fox News commentators, if they run sharply critical reports?

Army diverts funds to war - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

  • For a president who campaigned in 2000 on restoring readiness to the armed forces, anecdotal reports of shortfalls of basic equipment is embarrassing as Iraq consumes more than $5 billion a month in Pentagon funds.

30 Jul 06

Officials: There 'aren't enough troops' to fix problems in Iraq - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington

  • The Bush administration's decision to move thousands of U.S. soldiers into Baghdad to quell sectarian warfare before it explodes into outright civil war underscores a problem that's hindered the U.S. effort to rebuild Iraq from the beginning: There aren't enough troops to do the job.
27 Jul 06

Rockets’ red glare- Pasadena Weekly


  • “We all did a lot of things we didn’t want to do,” he tried to explain to the audience. “It’s hard to describe. There were a lot of civilian casualties over there.”

USATODAY.com - Equipment shortfalls hurt Army readiness

  • Up to two-thirds of the Army's combat brigades are not ready for wartime missions, largely because they are hampered by equipment shortfalls, Democratic lawmakers said Wednesday, citing unclassified documents.
22 Jul 06

Peninsula Peace and Justice Center: 5/17/06 - Support Our Troops, Anybody?


  • A case in point is Marine Lance Cpl. James Crosby. He left Iraq strapped to a gurney after his legs were paralyzed and his innards lacerated by shrapnel. When he exited the combat zone to head back home for treatment, he realized the military cut his pay by 50%. "Before you leave the combat zone, they swipe your ID card through a computer, and you go back to your base pay," he said.

WorkingForChange-Sick of killing

  • Yet the National
    Center for PTSD estimates that over the course of their lifetimes, over
    half of all male Vietnam vets, and nearly half of female Vietnam vets,
    have suffered full or partial PTSD.

Grieving parents speak against the war


  • The Arredondos have established three scholarships in Alex Arredondo's name.
09 Jul 06

Worcester Telegram & Gazette News

  • the number of veterans with this stress disorder will reach 30,000 by October, a near doubling of that figure in the span of a year. Additionally, the federal Government Accountability Office released a study in May showing that 8 of 10 servicemen returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk for PTSD but are not being referred for mental health evaluation.

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