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The US military's faulty war plans and insufficient troops in Iraq left thousands - possibly millions - of tons of conventional munitions unsecured or in the hands of insurgent groups after the 2003 invasion, allowing widespread looting of weapons and explosives used to make roadside bombs that cause the bulk of US casualties, according to a government report released yesterday.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032307L.shtml

House Democrats are increasingly confident that they have the votes to pass legislation designed to force an end to the war in Iraq next year. Several party members dropped their opposition to the bill following days of wrangling within a deeply divided caucus. The House planned to vote Friday on a $124 billion spending bill that would finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but require that combat troops return home before September 2008.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032307J.shtml

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

Four years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and despite 22 billion dollars spent on recovery and reconstruction, Iraq's environment remains in disastrous shape. Industrial waste, hospital waste, fertilizer run-off from farming, as well as oil spills plague the two rivers that define the Mesopotamia region and which provide much of the irrigation and drinking water.

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2961.shtml

Marwan Hussein, 31, is an unemployed displaced father who has resorted to selling half his monthly food rations to make money to flee Iraq. "We've tried different ways to survive in a dignified way," says Hussein, "but we've reached the end of the road now. We need to leave the country but we don't have money for that. We are all tired of living without government support. We are on our own."

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2963.shtml

The leaders of a Senate panel said Thursday that the Defense and State departments must work more closely together to avoid repeating multimillion-dollar mistakes in the reconstruction of Iraq. Earlier this year, federal investigators determined that the Bush administration had squandered as much as $10 billion in reconstruction aid.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032207T.shtml

For the neocons of this administration, as a friend said to me recently, Iraq was to be a laboratory that would reveal the face of imperial America.

https://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1338


From Information Clearing House



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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nick+Turse

Baghdad's last refuge for orphaned and traumatised children is in danger of closing later this month when it finally runs out of funds.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,2038665,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By David Case

They cheered the U.S. invasion; they offered to help, signed on as translators, risked everything they had to work for the United States. But when they had to run for their lives, America slammed the door.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17385.htm

On the fourth anniversary of the invasion by Allied troops, an Australian scientist insisted the true death toll dwarfed previous estimates.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17388.htm

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ABC (Under)counting Iraqi Dead

Top ABC anchors are minimizing the death toll.
https://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3064



Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War On Iraq - At Least 655,000 + +

https://tinyurl.com/usq4x


From Information Clearing House