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by Patrick Cockburn

03/16/08

Five rears after the invasion of Iraq the US and the Iraqi government both claim that Iraq is becoming a less dangerous place, but the measures taken to protect Mr Maliki told a different story. Gun-waving soldiers first cleared all traffic from the streets. Then four black armored cars, each with three machine gunners on the roof, raced out of a heavily fortified exit from the Green Zone, followed by sand-coloured American Humvees and more armoured cars. Finally, in the middle of the speeding convoy, we saw six identical bullet proof vehicles with black windows, one of which must have carried Mr Maliki. The precautions were not excessive since Baghdad remains the most dangerous city in the world...

http://counterpunch.org/patrick03152008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

Long after the war ends, America will continue to pay a staggering price.
http://www.thestar.com/article/346563


From Information Clearing House

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Estimates of Iraq War Cost Were Not Close to Ballpark

David M. Herszenhorn, of The New York Times, reports: "At the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order and install a new government. Five years in, the Pentagon tags the cost of the Iraq war at roughly $600 billion and counting. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and critic of the war, pegs the long-term cost at more than $4 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office and other analysts say that $1 trillion to $2 trillion is more realistic, depending on troop levels and on how long the American occupation continues."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031908O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+Stiglitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+M.+Herszenhorn

More than two-thirds of Iraqis believe the American-led occupation forces should leave, according to a poll conducted for British television ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion.

http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=252016


From Information Clearing House

By Bianca Jagger

The Iraq war was always illegal and unwinnable. Gordon Brown must now name the date for withdrawal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19546.htm



Brown promises public inquiry into Iraqi war

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised a full-scale inquiry into the mistakes made in Iraq, prior to the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led war, The Independent newspaper said Monday.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/17/content_7808931.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gordon+Brown
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bianca+Jagger

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Informant: osirismediany

Warren P. Strobel of McClatchy Newspapers reports: "It was a decision that only President Bush had the power to make: At about 9 a.m. on March 19, 2003, in the Situation Room in the basement of the West Wing of the White House, he gave the 'execute order' to begin Operation Iraqi Freedom, the US-led invasion of Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031608B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Operation+Iraqi+Freedom
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Warren+P.+Strobel

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7263/


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From ufpj-news



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0313-21.htm



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