Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,197,469"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,032
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$509,762,929,411
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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White House Authorized War Crimes
 
Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved ‘Enhanced Interrogation’
 
By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE
 
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19708.htm
 
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‘Manageable Chaos in Iraq Suits Iran’
 
By Mark Tran
 
It may surprise George Bush and his top commanders to hear that the US military presence in Iraq suits Iran down to the ground.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19711.htm
 
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Iraq Was Not A Preemptive War
 
By Nathan Gonzalez
 
Neither John McCain, nor the media for that matter, seem to know what a preemptive war actually is. The Iraq War, for one, was not a preemptive war, but a preventive one. There is a big difference.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19710.htm
 
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Iraq Veterans Against War seizes National Archives Building
 
Veterans demand that Cheney and Bush are charged with war crimes
 
2 Minute Video
 
IVAW members seize National Archives Building in front of hundreds of surprised museum visitors. Response from visitors including teachers, students, vacationers was highly positive though there were a few horrified faces in the crowd. IVAW read the terms of our Citizens Arrest Warrant.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19713.htm
 
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U.S. Needs Taliban to Regain Afghanistan
 
By Jalal Ghazi
 
The Taliban are back and stronger and more popular than ever. NATO and the United States will soon have no choice but to negotiate with them six years after driving them out of Kabul. That’s the impression one gets from reading Arab media on the war in Afghanistan.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19712.htm
 
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In case you missed it
 
John Pilger: Breaking The Silence
 
Must Watch Video Documentary
 
A hard hitting special report into the “war on terror” Award winning journalist John Pilger.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12555.htm
 
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What Motivates the Terrorists?
 
By Jacob G. Hornberger
 
Don’t the American people and the British people owe it to themselves to accept reality with respect to their governments’ foreign policies rather than live lives of falsehood and delusion? At least then, they would have a better grip on what their troops and citizenry are killing and dying for and what they are losing their liberty for.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19709.htm
 
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Least We Forget
 
Deir Yassin Remembered
 
Must Watch Video
 
Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14676.htm
 
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At least 24 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
Six people were killed and 10 wounded in air strikes on Thursday in Sadr City, Iraqi police said. The U.S. military confirmed strikes, but said it was unaware of any deaths.
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL1097820
 
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5 U.S. troops among dozens dead in Iraq:
 
Errant mortar shells slammed into houses and a funeral tent yesterday, leaving three children among the dead during clashes in a Shiite militia stronghold that was under siege by American and Iraqi forces on the fifth anniversary of the U.S. capture of the capital.
tinyurl.com/65gw5w
 
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War criminal:
 
Bush in tears at Iraq War memorial:
 
Mr Bush’s lip quivered and tears streamed down his cheeks as he posthumously awarded the nation’s highest honour to Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor, 25, who threw himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades in the central Iraq city of Ramadi 18 months ago.
www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23515504-2,00.html
 
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Bush suspends summer troop pullouts from Iraq :
 
President George W. Bush on Thursday announced a suspension of U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer to allow the military to reassess the security situation.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080410/ts_nm/iraq_dc
 
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Maliki Disagrees With Petraeus’s ‘Pause,’ Says ‘U.S. Troops Should Be Pulled Out’:
 
There is one important decision-maker that Petraeus and Bush don’t seem to be listening to: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The AP reports that Maliki told Bush yesterday that he “disagrees” with Petraeus’s recommendation “citing the growing capabilities of Iraq’s own security forces”
thinkprogress.org/2008/04/10/maliki-disagrees-petraeus/
 
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Gen. Petraeus insists U.S. needs to stay in Iraq indefinitely :
 
Gen. David Petraeus said Tuesday that at least 140,000 U.S. troops should remain indefinitely in Iraq – and also appeared to move the goalposts for defining the success of their mission.
tinyurl.com/65o8to
 
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War criminal says: :
 
Troop Levels Harming Militar:
 
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that President George W. Bush’s successor will have to come to grips with the reality that the United States cannot continue to keep such large numbers of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
www.wftv.com/politics/15845597/detail.html
 
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Maliki’s Basra operation will take months-Petraeus :
 
“It is still very much playing out. It is far too soon to say that Basra has succeeded or has failed,” Army Gen. David Petraeus said of the confrontation between Iraqi forces and militants loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that has also sparked fighting in Baghdad.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N09278895.htm
 
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In backing the Basra assault, the US has only helped Sadr:
 
The hardline US vice-president, Dick Cheney, was in Baghdad two weeks earlier and may well have urged Maliki to go ahead. They hoped for a triumph to boast about in Congress. Now they must explain a disaster.
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/04/usa.iraq
 
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Gov’t’s disarming campaign must include all militias-Sadr :
 
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said he is not against the government’s disarming campaign provided that it includes all militias, Iraqi Vice president(VP) office reported.
tinyurl.com/5jx7lc
 
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Bleak assessment of Iraq:
 
Since a significant number of support and aviation troops that accompanied the five extra brigades into Iraq will remain, nearly 140,000 American military personnel – more than the 132,000 before the buildup – will be in place well into the fall and probably through Election Day.
tinyurl.com/55ozeu
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
 
With warning to Iran, Bush says U.S. troops in Iraq to have all time they need : —
 
The regime in Tehran has a choice to make, Bush said — “to live in peace with its neighbor, enjoy strong economic and cultural and religious ties, or it could continue to arm and train and fund illegal militant groups, which are terrorizing the Iraqi people and turning them against Iran
tinyurl.com/572apf
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert::
 
Iran and al Qaeda among greatest threats to U.S.: Bush :
 
“If Iran makes the right choice, America will encourage a peaceful relationship between Iran and Iraq. If Iran makes the wrong choice, America will act to protect our interests and our troops and our Iraqi partners.”
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080410/pl_nm/bush_iraq_iran_dc
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
 
For U.S., another top threat emerges in Iraq:
 
Iranian-backed ‘special groups’ are now the greatest threat to American forces, Gen. Petraeus testifies. Some officials and experts disagree
tinyurl.com/63xu2n
 
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US-Iran conflict likely to deepen:
 
As the Bush administration draws closer to the end of its tenure in office, the prospect of a US military strike against Iran is increasing, partly caused by the serious misjudgment of each other’s strategies.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2008-04/10/content_6605526.htm
 
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U.S. skeptical about Iranian nuclear advances:
 
Washington is skeptical that Iran is installing 6,000 new centrifuges to enrich uranium and testing an advanced centrifuge with greater capacity, a top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080410/ts_nm/nuclear_iran_schulte_dc
 
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Israel has no way for survival :
 
Ahmadinejad: The issue of Palestine is considered a benchmark for assessing sincerity of nations and governments in abiding by democracy, human rights and freedom, he noted.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0804105053181825.htm
 
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Israel cuts fuel to Gaza, warns of more action :
 
Today, hundreds of demonstrators began flocking to main intersections of Gaza City, the coastal strip’s largest town, to protest Israel’s months-old blockade of the territory and the accompanying economic sanctions that have deepened the hardship of ordinary Gazans.
www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Apr/20080410News020.asp
 
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PM: Israeli response to Negev attack will change the way Hamas operates :
 
“This fuel [from Israel] is dipped in humiliation,” he said, “because people wait for it for hours. If their fuel means humiliation for us, we don’t want it.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/973852.html
 
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Israeli intelligence: Hamas militants in Gaza increase to 20,000 :
 
The Hamas movement has increased its militia to some 20,000 gunmen and now is able to carry out complex attacks, an Israeli intelligence organization said a report issued Thursday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/10/content_7954555.htm
 
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Egypt sends troops to Gaza border :
 
Egypt has sent more than 1,000 extra troops to the border with the Gaza Strip, after Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movement warned that it could be breached if Israel’s blockade of the territory continued.
tinyurl.com/5vyk7w
 
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McCain doesn’t rule out preemptive war :
 
Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain said on Wednesday he would not rule out launching preemptive wars against future enemies.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19710.htm
 
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Car bombing targets NATO convoy killing 9 in occupied Afghanistan :
 
A suicide car bombing on Thursday targeting the NATO convoy in the center of Kandahar city, the capital of southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, left over eight civilians dead and 22 others injured, said a police official.
tinyurl.com/53szaw
 
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US democracy at work? :
 
Afghans hold secret trials for men that U.S. detained:
 
Dozens of Afghan men who were previously held by the United States at Bagram Air Base and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are now being tried here in secretive Afghan criminal proceedings based mainly on allegations forwarded by the American military.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/10/asia/10afghan.php
 
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10 Killed as Pakistan’s prime minister warns ‘dictatorship’ is threatening newly restored democracy :
 
An outburst of violence Wednesday in Karachi left 10 people dead, bringing the new government’s honeymoon to an abrupt and bloody end just as it prepared to assail Musharraf’s powers.
tinyurl.com/4c4urj
 
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Delahunt urges Iraq to spend $1 billion on refugees:
 
Massachusetts Rep. William Delahunt is urging Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to use $1 billion of Iraq’s expected $25 billion budget surplus on alleviating its refugee crisis.
tinyurl.com/4n6lrf
 
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Zimbabwe opposition rejects run-off :
 
“We will not participate in a re-run of elections because we won that election hands down without a need for a re-run,” Tendai Biti, MDC secretary general, said.
tinyurl.com/5oyqnh
 
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Ending Saudi deal probe ‘unlawful’ :
 
A fraud office within the British government acted unlawfully in ending investigations into arms deals with Saudi Arabia, two judges have ruled.
tinyurl.com/62wz6x
 
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Top Ecuador defence chiefs ‘quit’ :
 
Four of Ecuador’s senior defence chiefs have quit or been asked to resign after the president, Rafael Correa, said the country’s security forces were controlled by US intelligence.
tinyurl.com/5g97ed
 
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Haitian president calls for calm :
 
Rene Preval, the Haitian president, has appealed for calm after days of violent protests over rising food prices that have left five people dead.
tinyurl.com/596qd5
 
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US security chief: cyber-threats ‘on par’ with 9/11:
 
One of America’s most senior security officials has said that the threat posed by cyber-crime is “on a par” with the attacks of September 11, 2001.
tinyurl.com/3nq9kf
 
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Longshoremen to close ports on West Coast to protest war occupation:
 
Amid this political atmosphere, dockworkers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all U.S. West Coast ports on May 1, International Workers’ Day, to call for an end to the war occupation.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/09/ED8L101F5U.DTL
 
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IMF says US crisis is ‘largest financial shock since Great Depression:
 
America’s mortgage crisis has spiralled into “the largest financial shock since the Great Depression” and there is now a one-in-four chance of a full-blown global recession over the next 12 months, the International Monetary Fund warned today.
www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/apr/09/useconomy.subprimecrisis/print
 
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WaMu gets $7 billion infusion, cuts jobs, sees big loss:
 
Washington Mutual Inc (NYSE:WM – News), the largest U.S. savings and loan, said on Tuesday it obtained a $7 billion capital injection from private equity firm TPG Inc and other investors, but that mortgage problems will lead to a $1.1 billion quarterly loss and the elimination of 3,000 jobs.
biz.yahoo.com/rb/080408/washingtonmutual.html?.v=9
 
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US trade deficit jumps to 62.3 billion dollars :
 
The US trade deficit rose to 62.3 billion dollars in February from 59 billion a month earlier, as imports surged despite a weak dollar, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
rawstory.com/news/afp/US_trade_deficit_jumps_to_62_3_bill_04102008.html