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Gold Star Mother Amy Branham responds to a "Today Show" interview with Laura Bush: "I promise you, Laura, there is absolutely no way you and George have suffered even close to the suffering of the military families, the soldiers, the people of Iraq have suffered. You could not unless you sent one of your beloved children or other family members into the war. You are so far removed from it that I don't think you have the capacity for understanding what the true suffering of the war in Iraq is. Don't get me wrong: I believe that you, as a woman and a mother, probably do have some empathy for the suffering. But you do not understand. Not even close."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050107P.shtml



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The bitter fight over the latest Iraq spending bill has all but obscured a sobering fact: The war will soon cost more than $500 billion. That's about ten times more than the Bush administration anticipated before the war started four years ago, and no one can predict how high the tab will go.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050107J.shtml

By Layla Anwar

Never, at least not to my knowledge, has a "liberation" produced so much human filth... Never has a "liberation" managed to generate so many death mercenaries and contractors being paid up to 5'000 dollars a day with the sole aim of exterminating...and "pacifying".

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17625.htm



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By Hala Jaber

"I shouted and beat my breast and yanked my hair in the street but no one could do anything. A few minutes later we heard shots. I knew they [Ali and Ahmad] were dead," she said. "

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17626.htm

If President Bush’s Veto Is Not Challenged Tomorrow, Thousands of Iraqis and Hundreds of US Troops Are Certain to Perish.

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/30/858/



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https://tinyurl.com/29ju2e


Informant: Andrea Ball



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Jeremy Scahill writes: "The 145,000 active duty US forces are nearly matched by occupation personnel that currently come from companies like Blackwater USA and the former Halliburton subsidiary KBR, which enjoy close personal and political ties with the Bush administration. Until Congress reins in these massive corporate forces and the whopping federal funding that goes into their coffers, partially withdrawing US troops may only set the stage for the increased use of private military companies (and their rent-a-guns) which stand to profit from any kind of privatized future 'surge' in Iraq."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043007D.shtml

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The Shadow Army
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/30/4215/



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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=KBR
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Janine+R.+Wedel

Democratic and Republican members of Congress already are focusing on September as their next major decision point on the war. The idea of benchmarks has been gaining support among Republicans who voice increasing frustration over the Iraqi government's failure to complete long-promised political reforms and Bush's lack of success in pushing a political solution.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043007K.shtml



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