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The number is shocking and sobering. It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on the only scientifically valid study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.

https://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html


From Information Clearing House

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6576/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

https://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/59318/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Holland

By Seumas Milne

Expectations of an early withdrawal from Iraq are premature. Only broader resistance is likely to break the American grip.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18153.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Seumas+Milne

https://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/080907.html


Informant: Alan Dicey



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=death+toll
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry

The Houston Chronicle's David Ivanovich reports: "More than 1,000 civilian contractors have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion more than four years ago, according to Labor Department records made available Tuesday."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080807R.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors

A top member of the Iraqi prime minister's party says a law governing oil reserves should be delayed until occupation forces leave the country.

https://tinyurl.com/2mqczm


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

Bush's backers are peddling a sunny view of the president's strategy -- despite Iraq's political chaos and soaring death counts.

https://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/08/07/surge/


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole

Britain and the US are maintaining positive illusions about the situation in Iraq, but the unvarnished truth is less comfortable.

https://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/simon_tisdall/2007/08/iraqs_hall_of_mirrors.html


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Simon+Tisdall