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In January 2006, Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University professor who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001, and Linda Bilmes, a Harvard University budget expert, released a report estimating that the cost of the war in Iraq may come to more than $2 trillion.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH04Ak04.html


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According to correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, "Military officials in Kuwait suggest that they could easily handle the 160,000 troops in a matter of months. But that would be extremely risky, because a hasty retreat would increase the troops' vulnerability to attack.

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A company contracted by the US Government has been recruiting ex-military men and former police officers to serve in war-torn Iraq.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200708020956.html


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A military jury sentenced a Marine to 448 days in prison on Thursday after he was found guilty of conspiracy in the 2006 murder and kidnapping of an Iraqi grandfather. Because he has spent the last 450 days in detention, the punishment means Magincalda will be released from the brig on Friday.

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U.S. military killing trials reflect public fatigue

In one Iraqi city U.S. Marines kidnapped and killed an Iraqi grandfather. In another, enraged forces killed 24 civilians, most in their homes, after the death of a popular American comrade. One Marine urinated on a corpse.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N31248849.htm


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The disparity in official numbers and the ones posted in the market, and apparent differences between government figures and eyewitness accounts after other recent bombings, leaves many Iraqis feeling that the government is intentionally downplaying or trying to cover up the numbers of dead.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0803/p07s02-woiq.html


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By Jonathan Steele

The panic and distraction of the security crisis should not be used as cover for handing Iraq's wealth to foreigners.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18114.htm



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Noch sollen sie nur zur Aufklärung verwendet worden sein.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25872/1.html

Cleveland Plain Dealer

by Elizabeth Sullivan

08/02/07

Rand Beers’ final White House assignment after working for four presidents was to fig ure out whether attacking Iraq would leave the back door open to another al-Qaida strike on the homeland.“But as we worked through that problem,” said Beers, then a counterterrorism adviser to President Bush, “it became clear to me that by the form of our entry into Iraq we were also diminishing our ability to operate more broadly in the world.”By early 2003, the coalition of the willing already had become much less willing. Any “huge diminution of support from that outpouring we had after 9/11? tied to an Iraq attack would severely compromise the fight against al-Qaida, Beers said in an interview Friday before a speech to the City Club of Cleveland. So Beers quit...

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Ben Lando for United Press International reports that "the main US union representing oil workers has called on Congress to stop pressing Iraq to pass its oil law and support the rights of oil workers."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080207LA.shtml



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