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[Ap.washingtontimes.com] Associated Press - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Bombs exploded on a soccer field Wednesday killing 11 young people, and at least 42 other people - two of them Americans - died elsewhere in sectarian or political violence. Still, the president said plans are on track for Iraqis to take over security.

[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: Since the US Coalition Provisional Authority essentially stole $9 billion from Iraq to run itself and the country the first year, basically the $9 billion actually spent on reconstruction by the US was little more than a repayment of the money taken (quite illegally under the law of Occupation), and the actual US investment in Iraq is zero. While the American public is being taxed to pay a bill for Iraq mounting toward $1 trillion (and Americans are nowadays staring the tax man in the face), that appears to go mostly to finance continued search and destroy missions that are probably mostly failures as counter insurgency.

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