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Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
A leaked Government report on "lessons learnt" after the Iraq war reveals "appalling" failures that left the British Army ill-equipped for battle and the subsequent occupation, it has been reported.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
As of Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, at least 4,364 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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City Pages - The Blotter (Free subscription) | yesterday
Packer backers fighting the war in Iraq have an extra load of grief to endure these days.
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Total number of U.S. military deaths since 2003 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Iraq war, as announced by the Pentagon:
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
As of Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, at least 4,364 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
As of Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, at least 4,364 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Truth Out (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Chuck Luther, who served 12 years in the military, is a veteran of two deployments to Iraq, where he was a reconnaissance scout in the 1st Cavalry Division. The former sergeant was based at Fort Hood, Texas, where he lives today. "I see the ugly," Luther told Truthout. "I see soldiers beating their wives and trying to kill themselves all the time, and most folks don't want to look at...
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Iraqi Mojo (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The war has been huge for Iraqis, especially in terms of lives lost and forever changed by violence. For America the war in Iraq has also been very expensive. America's increased debt as a result of the war will only help China and other US creditors , whose US treasury bonds will no doubt be repaid with interest by our (Americans') kids and grandkids. The deaths of 4,365 American soldiers and tens...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
It was, of course, the IoS wot won it. Our "No, non, nein" campaign against Tony Blair ensured that he was not chosen as the first President of the European Council last week. Well, our campaign, and attitudes towards the Iraq war across Europe, and trade-offs between the broad political blocs in the European Union – and, undoubtedly, the unwillingness of some European leaders to be...
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Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Saturday Night At The Movies The worst years of our lives By Dennis Hartley The bad news bearers: Harrelson and Foster in The Messenger Well, it took long enough. Someone has finally made a film that gets the harrowing national nightmare of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars right. Infused with sharp writing, smart and unobtrusive direction and compelling performances, The Messenger is one of those insightful...
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Simplistic Art (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
I am glad that Iraq war supporter Tony Blair (and Bush poodle) did not make it to be the president of the EU but I did not expect a haiku spouting unknown Belgian to be the one ... Leaders of the 27 countries of the European Union on Thursday night chose Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian prime minister, as the European Union’s first president, and Catherine Ashton of Britain, currently the bloc’s...
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The Left Coaster (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Harry Reid achieved a minor miracle a half-hour ago when he got 60 votes to begin the health care debate in the Senate right after the Thanksgiving recess. No sooner had he done that, with the help of alleged Democrats Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu, did Lincoln make it clear she would never vote for any final bill that allows cash-strapped middle class families to choose a public plan instead...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
The first sight of Abdullah Suleiman isn’t for the faint-hearted: when he was six years old the bottom half of his face was blown away by a car bomb. The excruciating cost of war in Iraq is written in the crisscross lines of stitches holding his rebuilt nose and mouth in place.
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John Rentoul (Free subscription) | yesterday
The sweet Chris Ames personifies the anti-war paradox, that many of the people who were most vociferous in demanding a fifth inquiry into the Iraq war are most convinced that it will be, in their view, yet another "whitewash". On his pre-emptive website, Iraq Inquiry Digest, he suggests that the inquiry chaired by Sir John Chilcot (right), which opens proceedings on Tuesday, cannot be independent...
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Eye of Polyphemus (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was an early Rudy Giuliani supporter in 2008. He is a disappointing RINO, buthe was competing against a lackluster field of candidates against which I felt his liberal social policies could be tolerated in light of his fiscal conservatism and get tough on terror attitude. Pundits say he ran an awful campaign, but I doubt even astellar one would have mattered. The only excitement he could elicit from...
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kellya | 19/02/2009
Naomi Klein doesn't believe in calling the Bush administration incompetent for its widely unpopular policies on the war in Iraq. Instead, she argues that the Iraq model of reconstruction has been "incredibly profitable." "They're only incompetent if you believe that their goal is to better the lives of everyone on Earth," the journalist and international bestselling author told a crowd of about 150