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 [ JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA DAILY VOX by Jacksonville Vox] [IMG ]: Blogstream > Hot Topics > Blog JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA DAILY VOX Tuesday June 20, 2006 TONY SNOW, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, RAPES BRUTALIZED U.S. SOLDIERS--sort of... Tony Snow has utter disdain for U.S. Soldiers in Iraq, as does Dick Cheney.

 [Discussion about 09/11/2001] [UrukNet] - [Daily Information from Occupied... : The American-installed court official made the call during his summation at the trial of eight imprisoned Iraqi leaders in connection with the execution of some 148 individuals in the village of ad-Dujayl in 1982, after they were found guilty of plotting to murder President Saddam Husayn and overthrow the Iraqi government. After hearing the pleas of the American-backed prosecutor at its 35th session on Monday, the show trial was adjourned to 10 July...

 [ David W. Boles’ Urban Semiotic] The Difference Between a Number and a... : Last week White House spokesman Tony Snow said the watershed number of 2,500 dead American soldiers in Iraq was “just a number.” Meanwhile, the Pentagon announced that US deaths in Iraq had reached 2500, with more than 18,000 Americans injured in the war since the US invaded in March 2003. A White House spokesman, Tony Snow, called it “just a

[TrentHead.Com] Press Politicizes, Instead of Examining, Death... : Here's how the AP story began: "The Pentagon confirmed Thursday that 2,500 U.S. troops have died in the Iraq war since it began more than three years ago, marking a grim milestone even as President Bush hopes a recent spate of good news will reverse the war's widespread unpopularity at home. The latest death was announced as Congress was launching into a symbolic election-year debate over the war, with Republicans rallying against calls by some Democrats to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops." As Tony Snow blithely told reporters yesterday, ''It's a number." Here.

 [Washingtonpost.com] White House Briefing -- News on President George W Bush and the ...: "Q Tony, American deaths in Iraq have reached 2500. document drafted by the White House and distributed by the Pentagon, replete with talking points, .

[Currentera.com] Current Era Blog » Field commanders tell Pentagon Iraq war ”˜is lost’: “When something like Haditha happens, it gives the impression that Americans can’t be trusted to provide security, which is the most important thing to Iraqis on a day-to-day level,” says Anthony Cordesman, an Iraq expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

 [Dailywarnews.blogspot.com] Today in Iraq: The study also notes that Defense Department expenditures that were not directly appropriated for Iraq have grown by more than 5 percent since the war began. But a portion of that increase has been spent "on support for the war in Iraq, including significantly higher recruitment costs, such as nearly doubling the number of recruiters, paying recruitment bonuses of up to $40,000 for new enlistees and paying special bonuses and other benefits, up to $150,000 for current Special Forces troops that re-enlist." "Another cost to the government," the study says, "is the interest on the money that it has borrowed to finance the war." Among the things taken into account by the study are some of the difficult-to-quantify but very real costs inflicted by the war on the American economy and society, such as the effect of the war on oil prices, and the economic loss that results from the many thousands of Americans wounded and killed in the war.

 [Wbur.org] Iraq War Weblog, Conflict in Iraq: Under the protection of a no-fly zone, and having negotiated an end to a civil war between two political factions, the Kurds of northern Iraq are prospering in what some observers are calling a "Golden Age." They have established civil institutions like courts and other trappings of an embryonic state, and their armed militias help keep the peace in northern Iraq. Ankara frets this experiment in Kurdish autonomy will inspire the Kurds of Turkey which account for 20% of the population.

 [Havenworks.com] IRAQ NEWS IRAQI NEWS | HavenWorks.com/world/iraq capital: Baghdad ...: "For more than a year,the Pentagon has been redrawing its policies on detainees, and intendsto issue a new Army Field Manual on interrogation, which, along with accompanyingdirectives, represents core instructions to U.S. soldiers worldwide." ..."President Bush's critics and supporters have debated whether it is possibleto prove a direct link between administration declarations that it willnot be bound by Geneva and events such as the abuses at Abu Ghraib or thekillings of Iraqi civilians last year in Haditha, allegedly by Marines."...

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