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[Poor Mojo Newswire] For the amount we've spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, we ...: Either way, the direct costs of the Iraq war exceed the maximum cost estimate for a manned Mars expedition, infrastructure and all, by 20%. If we take $20Bn as the cost per mission and $450Bn as the cost to develop the technology to go .
[Science and Technology News] Americans believe wounded Iraq war veterans are not receiving high ...: A recent survey finds that a majority of Americans (62%) believe that wounded Iraq war veterans do not receive high quality care in military and Veteran’s Administration (VA) hospitals once they return to the U.S. Similar majorities feel that veterans requiring rehabilitation care and mental health care do not receive high quality care (62% and 65% respectively).
[Digg / upcoming] The Iraq war vs. a manned trip to Mars: If we take $20Bn as the cost per mission and $450Bn as the cost to develop the technology to go there, the direct cost of the Iraq war would be sufficient to develop a gold-plated Mars expeditionary capability and”¦
[Allentown, PA News RSS Feed - yourstreet] Holt impressed by Iraq military technology, critical of war: TRENTON, NJ (AP) -- Rep. Rush Holt says he's impressed with the technological capabilities of soldiers in Iraq, but still does not believe the United States should be fighting...
[The Basement Tapes] War without Frontiers: The media is currently awash with metaphors comparing the situation in Iraq with the Vietnam War, likening the troubles in Fallujah to the Tet Offensive and the sordid torture scenes from Abu Ghraib prison to the My Lai massacre.
[Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti] Iraq’s Depleted Uranium Shells Could Kill 500000: In the wake of the first Gulf War, the American Press was enamored with military technology in a way that they never had been before, trumpeting the ability of the modern Roman Legions to put a single bomb through a single window anywhere in the world, or of a soldier to see through the chaos of night combat.
[SLUniverse Forums] Moore implements 'affirmative action' measure to help area vets: Moore, founder of the Traverse City Film Festival that owns the State Theatre downtown, said the theater is implementing a new labor policy requiring all its contractors and vendors to attempt to hire veterans who served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Moore described it as an "affirmative action"
[Steven Clark Bradley] Patriot Acts Prologue - Iran, The Root Of Terror - May 26,2008: During the Iran-Iraq War, Iran pursued a strategy of maritime terror, using unmarked gunboats and floating mines to attack noncombatant shipping. Numerous assassinations of enemies abroad in the late 1980s and 1990s were widely and .
[Kalikahftjacqueline's Weblog] the gonzales damage goes respecting: Obviously, the whitey who oversure himself that WMDs were build has considering fideistic himself that creature not that sort on the jump the Embassy access 2003 again you illegally went up Russo-Japanese War in Iraq. Staying as for topics pertaining to the not right, Robert Gates, US Secretary as regards Objection has issued a predicition.
[Untitled] Alternative boondoggles: While the U.S. did directly spend $523 Bn, much of that was towards rebuilding large portions of Iraq: schools and basic utilities, most of which we didn't destroy in the first place, as the neglect of Saddam's regime had already done that. The $6Tn figure (and there have been plenty of critiques of that number), as "indirect" costs, are in many cases costs that we would have spent anyways, regardless of whether we were in Iraq or not, and again, many of them are costs that end up investing in various places in the development of useful infrastructure (and not necessarily in Iraq, for the indirect costs).
[Mark Joyner's Blog: Atomic Mind Bombs (Personal Development Brain Puzzle Cartoons)] The New Zealand Water Car One Year Later (and the State of ...: We wanted to invite you to a closer position where we could foster communications directly between you and Firoz Rasul - perhaps thru an intermediary, which we are constructing online as the earthbrilliance projects v.112, however we have begun mapping out as far as a third version it would include profit elements nothing to do with scientific research, but we are funding our own research with the money we are making, me and jeff.
[Untitled] Do We Still Have Grants and Shermans?: And they, like David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, in the past did not always reflect the Army establishment in Washington. Their unconventional views about counterinsurgency warfare do not hinge on high-tech weaponry, tanks, artillery and rapid massed advance.
[Wax Banks] Why Obama?: If we went to Iraq to bring freedom from Hussein, what we owe the Iraqis now is freedom from occupation. The Iraqi government faces a lot of challenges when we leave and the U.S. can help the Iraqis deal with them - our government at its best is an extraordinarily effective engineering and planning organization with a huge security force and that's how we can best serve the Iraqis - but our war in Iraq has been a disaster for this country.
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[Sabbah's Blog] It’s Time for a Declaration of Independence From Israel: The consequences of this one-sided relationship are being played out in the disastrous war in Iraq, growing tension with Iran, and the humanitarian and political crisis in Gaza. It is being played out in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is gearing up for another war with Israel, one most Middle East analysts say is inevitable.
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