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Headlines : Iraq

Summary:

With “enduring” U.S. military bases established in Iraq, and an embassy in Baghdad the size of the Vatican City, there appears to be no end in sight for the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By Dahr Jamail
Republished from Inter Press Service

Devastation on the ground and largely held Iraqi opinion contradicts claims by U.S. officials that the situation in Iraq has improved towards the fifth anniversary of the invasion

U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, during a surprise visit to Iraq on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a “successful endeavour”.

According to the group Just Foreign Policy, more than a million Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion and occupation, now entering its sixth year. A survey by British polling agency ORB estimates the number of dead at more than 1.2 million.

Nobel laureate and former chief World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz recently published a book with co-author Linda Bilmes of Harvard University titled ‘The Three Trillion Dollar War’, a figure it considers a “conservative estimate” of the long-range price tag of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

The authors say the Bush administration has repeatedly “low-balled” the cost of the war, and has kept a set of records hidden from the U.S. public.

According to the U.S. Department of Defence, close to 4,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed. The number of British casualties is 175.

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ShiftShapers @ 03/19/08 10:14:16

Iraq War as War Crime (Part One): The Iraq War — now ending its fifth bloody year — represents a terrible human tragedy and a stunning strategic blunder. But it also was a systemic failure of American political and journalistic institutions, which failed to check George W. Bush’s imperial impulse and enabled a grotesque war crime. Part One of a two-part series.

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ShiftShapers @ 03/19/08 11:07:29

Here is a credible site for civilian fatalities in Iraq.

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

Between 82,249 and 89,760 civilians dead as a result of Military and Paramilitary actions. Many confirmations pending.

Data is drawn from cross-checked media reports, hospital, morgue, NGO and official figures to produce a credible record of known deaths and incidents. Most of the documentation is in Arabic, not English!

As of today, the U.S has lost 4,000 servicemen in Irag. God bless them and their families.

Rosebud @ 03/19/08 15:13:16

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