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 Les Roberts The lead author of The Lancet report, Les Roberts, reported more recently on Feb. 8, 2006, that there may be as many as 300,000 Iraqi civilian deaths. Roberts is one of the world's top epidemiologists and a lecturer at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Roberts has also worked for the World Health Organization and the International Red Cross.e

Update>>Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq has cost 655,000 Iraqis their lives. That is the conclusion of a study financed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies and conducted by physicians under the direction of Johns Hopkins University epidemiologists.>>British medical journal, Lancet...

Cost of Iraq War.$1 trillion- $2 trillion dollars. American Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

Posted on Thu, Apr. 20, 2006 War's soaring price tallied $10 BILLION PER MONTH FROM U.S. TAXPAYERS, OUTPACING PAST FIGHTS.By Jonathan Weisman Washington Post


In fact, annual war costs in Iraq are easily outpacing the $61 billion a year that the United States spent in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972, in today's dollars. US war costs continue to shoot up
By David Isenberg,a senior research analyst at the British American Security Information Council, a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, and an adviser to the Straus Military Reform Project of the Center for Defense Information, Washington....Aug 1, 2006
 

With final passage of the defense appropriations act for fiscal year 2007, taxpayers will have provided nearly $510 billion for U.S. military, diplomatic, and reconstruction activities in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other forces deployed to confront terrorist organizations. Of that total, 75% is for Iraq, and 91% is for the Department of Defense, according to the most recent report by the Congressional Research Service.

Note: USA cannot afford Universal health care for its citizens!

 

Cost of the War in Iraq
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Bush's January 2007 TV promise of $1.2 billion to help rebuild Iraq and reduce its unemployment rate – which is estimated at 40 to 60 percent – is laughable when placed alongside US military spending in Iraq. The war is now costing at least $8 billion per month, a figure more than six times the administration's planned budget for reconstruction aid over the next year. If we follow the money instead of the rhetoric, the Bush plan is a blueprint for protracted conflict in Iraq. William D. Hartung...January 2007

 

" We are so narcissistically embroiled in our savagery and hypocrisy that it is hard to notice the eerie crafting of the ever darker definitions of ourselves.  Sanctimonious religious, political and media forces urge America onward.  Only the faint wraiths afloat our wakes of desolation presage the reckonings for our self-righteousness in the near future, in our physical space, and in the sureness of our ethereal reality and beyond into the mystrrium tremendum et fascinans" (...roughly an awesome and overwhelming mystery.) Ad Lib by DJG1.com

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.At the luncheon of the National Press Club on Feb. 17, 2006, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, was asked by his interviewer, John Donnelly: "Should people in the U.S. military disobey orders that they believe are illegal?" Pace's response: "It is the absolute responsibility of everybody in uniform to disobey an order that is either illegal or immoral."

 

"I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture," wrote Ray McGovern in a recent letter as he returned his Intelligence Commendation Award medallion, (medal for "especially commendable service)" to Congressman Pete Hoekstra, R-MI, and Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

McGovern is a 27-year veteran of the CIA, spanning administrations from John F. Kennedy to George Herbert Walker Bush, the current president's father. Author of "Neo-Conned Again!"

 

Oct. 4, 2005. “The invasion of Iraq I believe will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history,” said Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, a Vietnam veteran, now a scholar with the Hudson Institute. William Oden ran Army intelligence and later the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration.

 

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"The violence in Iraq is horrific, but it’s the media that makes it intolerable. Indeed, the violence is horrific only by modern standards. To truly cow a colonial population (as in British India in 1857, or on the American plains in the late 19th century) requires mass murder on a far larger scale. The presence of the media makes this most inconvenient. As we demonstrated at Fallujah, the sure way to subdue a hostile city is to destroy it." By James K. Galbraith LBJ School of Public Affairs.

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  "Dissent is not possible within the Bush administration, because dissent is equated with treason and anti-Americanism. "You are with us or against us." Increasingly, Republicans demonize their critics as "abettors of terrorism." The Republicans' intolerance for debate makes many Americans uneasy about the real purpose of the $385 million detention camp that Halliburton is building in the U.S. for the Bush Administration."

March 20, 2006 A Collapsing Presidency
Will it take the country down with it? by Paul Craig Roberts

 

  "The only people benefiting in this war are Bush's friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier. The price of oil is up, and they make money when the price of oil goes up. Their profits are at record levels." American Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

 

  "There are too many leaks of classified information," - Leaker in Chief ,George Bush told reporters in September 2003, "and if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is."

( Note: According to a filing from the prosecutor in the Valerie Plame leak investigation, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, who has been indicted for lying in the case, told a grand jury that President Bush specifically authorized him to leak from an intelligence document on WMD in Iraq.)

"At least in my mind, there's a difference between declassification - which is a formal step in which information is put officially on the public record - and a leak," says Jeffrey Smith,* former general counsel of the CIA "Here, what appears to have happened is the White House wanted to get this information out, but selectively gave certain portions of the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to a reporter without attribution. That's not declassification; that's a leak."  

*Jeffrey Smith is a former general counsel CIA and is now a partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Arnold & Porter. He has served as general counsel of the Senate Armed Services Committee and was Senator Sam Nunn's designee to both the Iran/Contra Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He served on the Commission to Review the Roles and Missions of the Armed Services, and he chaired the Joint Security Commission established by the Department of Defense and the CIA.

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~~ "Religion is the Root of all Evil" Department  ~~ [ref: Richard Harris The End of Faith.]

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Gerhard Schroeder writes, he could not reconcile himself with the feeling that religion was the driving force behind many of the president's  political decisions.  "What bothered me, and in a certain way made me suspicious despite the relaxed atmosphere, was again and again in our discussions how much this president described himself as 'God-fearing,"  "We rightly criticize that in most Islamic states, the role of religion for society and the character of the rule of law are not clearly separated," he added.  "But we fail to recognize that in the USA, the Christian fundamentalists and their interpretation of the Bible have similar tendencies".  'Gerhard Schroeder, former German Chancellor, in his memoirs 'Decisions: My Life in Politics'

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 BUSH TELLS PALESTINIAN PM GOD MADE HIM ATTACK IRAQ..."God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, hich I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them." --Ha'aretz, 06.25.03

 

 

The governor was asked, “What political philosopher or thinker do you identify with and why?” His response: “Christ, because he changed my heart.”

Jackson Lears in the New York Times reported Bush as saying, "''Events aren't moved by blind change and chance''..., but by ''the hand of a just and faithful God.''

[8/6/00 - NY Times] Four months ago in Texas, Gov. George W. Bush signed a proclamation declaring June 10 to be Jesus Day, and urging all Texans to "follow Christ's example by performing good works in their communities and neighborhoods."

"And all the dead air is alive. With the smell of America's God."
- Harold Pinter, "War With Iraq "TORTURE AND MIS
ERY IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM - By Harold Printer - Nobel Prize for Literature - 2005. WAR:

(And strike he did, with an awesome fury that rained death and destruction on the mustachioed whore of Babylon, with a firestorm of Godly wrath that consumed the enemy armies like so much chaff put to the flame--and with an arsenal of cruise missiles, cluster bombs, dive bombers and assault helicopters that killed up to 10,000 innocent civilians: blasted to pieces in their beds, shot down in their fields and streets, crushed beneath the walls of their own houses, boiled alive in factories, ditches, and cars, gutted, mutilated, beheaded, murdered, women, children, elders, some praying, some wailing, some cursing, some mute with fear as metal death ripped their lives away and left rotting hulks behind. This was the work of the Lord and His faithful servant, whom He hath raised high up to have dominion over men.)

Now, it has been discovered that one of Bush's top generals in his wars against evildoers, General William G. Boykin, believes that these wars are being fought against Satan himself. In public, this military officer and aide to Bush insists that the mission of the American military is to defeat Islam in the name of Christianity. So far, the Bush White House has refused to distance itself from Boykin's claim, and defends Boykin's appropriation of the American military for religious purposes as "free speech".

The Gospel of General Boykin

Preaching in his military uniform before a religious congregation in Oregon this June, General Boykin proclaimed, "we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian. Did I say Judeo-Christian? Yes. Judeo-Christian."

He continued, "The enemy that has come against our nation is a spiritual enemy. His name is Satan. And if you do not believe that Satan is real, you are ignoring the same Bible that tells you about God." (George W. Bush promoted Boykin to the position of Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. In this position, Boykin is in frequent communication with Bush.)

General Wesley Clark reports in his latest book that the White House has drawn up a list of exclusively Muslim nations to target as enemies over the next four years (Afghanistan, Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and the Sudan - two down, six to go).

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"The Independent suggests that a phone call from the U.S. president to British Prime Minister Tony Blair led to the removal of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw Friday.

The newspaper reports that friends of Straw believe Mr. Bush was extremely upset when Straw pronounced any use of nuclear weapons against Iran "nuts." May 7, 2006.
CBS News.

 

   In creating a quagmire in Iraq, Bush has arguably played into Osama’s hands as well as China’s, giving him the dubious distinction of being a Manchurian Candidate and Al-Qaeda’s top recruiter all in one. Invading Iraq has created a terrorist safe haven, and quelling a tenacious insurgency is likely to take decades and cost America a fortune in blood and treasure*. China: The Gathering Threat By Constantine Menges

*Note: We are not out of blood but we are out of treasure: The artificial stimulation of our economy through cheap money comes with a price. When dollars are abundant, they are worthless. This is the reality that is and will with greater force hammer Americans.  This includes everyone... not just older Americans who rely on savings to finance their retirement years. DJG1.com • Here is something interesting: for the first time in 90 years, the United States is paying more to foreign creditors than it receives from its overseas investors. The Wall Street Journal says this development may presage a drop in U.S. living standards.    Ultimately, the cries for "currency manipulation" I.E..,...the Chinese must raise the value of the yuan significantly by guys like Iraq war proponent Senator Charles Schumer amount to efforts to save the dollar; in other words, to convince people that dollars are worth having and saving. (Obviously, there’s no point in printing them if nobody wants to use them.) djg1.com

 

Career Advice:  How to get promoted in the Army Department. Guantanamo general sworn in as NATO military chief .Thu Dec 7, 10:49 AM ET

MONS, Belgium - The United States American general, a Bantz J. Craddock, formerly the
guy responsible for the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, (the place where where many detainees, including chidren, have been held without charge for years,) officially took command of
NATO forces at the alliance's military headquarters in Belgium.   Note: Understand....NATO's Suprem
e Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) is always an American.