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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!
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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
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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.)
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"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 Hoekst ra, R-MI, and Chair of the H ouse 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!" |
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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
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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.
March/April 2006 Issue
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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
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"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
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"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
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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
preside nt'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 MISERY
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. presi dent 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.
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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.)
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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 Supreme
Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) is always an American.
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