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AMERICAN spending on Iraq and Afghanistan has eclipsed the cost of the Vietnam War, making the War on Terror the second most expensive conflict in United States' history.

https://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=818542007


From Information Clearing House

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17772.htm

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Withdrawal symptoms
https://counterpunch.org/paupp05302007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

A day before Americans will honor soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice, a New York Times editorial says, "It's upsetting to think that Mr. Bush... does not recognize that Americans' support for the war broke down many bloody months ago. But we have grown accustomed to this president's disconnect from reality and his habit of tilting at straw men, like Americans who don't care about terrorism because they question his mismanagement of the war or don't worry about what will happen after the United States withdraws, as it inevitably must."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052707Y.shtml

"Critics of Congress's passage this week of the Iraq supplemental spending bill lament a lack of political courage. But Congress would find it easier to act courageously if the public understood the constitutional stakes. And that public understanding requires correct and persistent framing by Congress itself. What needs to have been framed - indeed what still needs to be framed - is Congress's constitutional responsibility and power to set the course on military missions like Iraq," write George Lakoff and Glenn Smith.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052707E.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=decider
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+supplemental
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Lakoff

By the time winter gave way to spring, the Minnesota National Guard was supposed to be back from war. But guard members from small towns such as Crookston, Goodridge and Fergus Falls are still patrolling Iraq, their tour extended by President Bush's troop buildup. When they finally return this summer, they will have been gone nearly two years, one of the longest stints of any guard unit since September 11, 2001.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052707D.shtml

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/26/1475/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+refugees
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ann+McFeatters

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/26/1480/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe

Americans have opened nearly 1,000 new graves to bury US troops killed in Iraq since Memorial Day a year ago. On Saturday, the military reported that eight US soldiers were killed in separate attacks. At least 3,451 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052707Z.shtml

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/26/AR2007052601394.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR


Informant: Corey

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Blackwater Contractors Involved in Shooting Death in Baghdad

Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week, and one of the incidents provoked a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, US and Iraqi officials said.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052707B.shtml



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