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[Political Cortex] The Iraq War rages on with 4,321 U.S. service personnel dead, over 55,000 wounded, and the Pentagon admitting 96,000 Iraqis killed.  However, the Just Foreign Policy website on February 4 released a report claiming, "Iraqi deaths due to U.S. invasion 1,307,319."

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[AlterNet.org: War on Iraq] U.S. Intel Chief's Shocking Warning: Wall Street's Disaster Has ...: A few decades of meddling in the Middle East with our Israeli doppelgnger and we get Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaida, the Iraqi resistance movement and a resurgent Taliban. Now we trash the world economy and destroy the ecosystem and sit back to watch our handiwork.

[Signs of the Times] Signs of the Times News for Mon, 16 Feb 2009: Instead of carefully conserving the Iraqi money for the new government, the Coalition Provisional Authority went on an extraordinary spending spree. Some $5bn was committed or spent in the last month alone, very little of it adequately accounted .

[AntiWar.com] The War Recession - by Alan Bock: The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the total cost will be around $2 trillion, while Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes calculate that it .China, which has been essentially subsidizing Bush's spending spree by purchasing U.S. Treasury securities, is facing its own internal troubles and is likely to be less eager to buy debt made in the USA, which is likely to drive up the .

[StatesmanJournal.com - News] Health care a top priority, Wyden tells residents ...: The Sunday town hall meeting at the Independence Public Library drew about 80 community members. The crowd peppered Wyden with questions on issues including health care, the economic stimulus package and the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

[illiterate Electorate] illiterate Electorate: YT on DW: Bush's Iraq War Spending Spree and Greenspan's Shrinking Dollar Kill U.S. Economy - George Bush's Iraq War scenario was dramatically launched during his State of the Union Message... 11 hours ago .

[MyCommunityNOW - Blogs] Republicans as fiscal conservatives? I don't think so. - Let's ...: President Bush and the republicans added over 4 Trillion to the national debt and now we have republicans who are concerned about giving our children more debt. George Bush never used his veto pen once from 2000- 2006 when republicans were in control of the house and senate.

[The Next Right] After-Action Yes, Capitulation No | The Next Right: After supporting open borders andunlimited immigration and wanting to sell citizenship for $5K, the Republicans have zero credibility with a message aimed at the middle class. After the Republican's in Congress refusal to perform oversight of the government, the Repubicans cannot talk about good government and after the incompetence of the Bush Administration, the Republicans can no longer talk about being the adults in DC.

[Liberty Reborn] Liberty Reborn » Yep, That Iraq War Sure “Failed” Huh Harry Reid?: One of the more encouraging aspects of Iraq’s election day is just how uneventful it was. Considering that the previous election, in January 2005, was marred by a spree of terrorist violence that saw 44 people killed, 9 deadly suicide .

[TIM BLAIR BLOG: PO BOX 13642, DES MOINES, SEATTLE, KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON STATE, USA 98198 COMMUNITY LIVE BLOG NEWS NOW] cbs - Windows Live: Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser, predicted just that kind of Democratic bragging in an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal late last week: "If history is a guide, sometime late this year or early next, the economy will rebound on its own. When that happens, Democrats will argue that their un-targeted, permanent spending actually revived the economy."

[The News Factor: News, opinion, current events -- a rewarding news experience] The News Factor: News, opinion, current events ”” a rewarding news ...: A former Republican, Massa left his party over the issue of the Iraq War. Representative Eric Massa, a newly-elected member of Congress, decided to drive the General Motors Chevy Equinox prototype hybrid fuel cell car from New York to .

[The Caucus] The Sunday Word: Sifting Through the Stimulus - The Caucus Blog ...: Jon Stewart skewered Congress (both Dems and Republicans) for their too little, too late concern over CEO exec pay and he also demolished former NH senator John Sununu (R) in an interview by asking the question that the media refuses to ask: why does fiscal responsibility matter now, but not over the last 8 years when we’ve spent $700 billion on the Iraq war and $1.2 trillion on tax cuts that helped turn a surplus into a deficit? I have yet to see ANYBODY in the media ask this question of the Republican leadership.

[Gifts and Free Advice] Increasing Blog Traffic Free One Major Organic Blog Tip | Gifts ...: Note you are not stealing website traffic from the site the video is on but giving them more traffic while increasing your own as well. You need to find an interesting video that few people know about which you are now bringing to their attention that they wouldn’t have found out otherwise.

[The News Factor: News, opinion, current events -- a rewarding news experience] The News Factor: News, opinion, current events ”” a rewarding news ...: Newswire Blogs - BlogCatalog Blog Directory · Informative & timely online magazine featuring breaking news, commentary, extensive content, and a .Religion, Science, Society, Spiritual Guidance, Sponsors, Sports, Technical Note, Technology Beat, The Obama Nation, The Paper, The Wayback Machine, Thoughtful Musings, Travel Notes, War in Iraq, War on Terror, Weather, Weird News, X-Files .

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: To say that Obama's failed efforts at achieving bipartisanship on this stimulus bill are the President's fault is being disingenuous at best. I have been very disheartened at the GOP's efforts of tearing down President Obama's economic recovery efforts, and by extension, tearing down of the economic health of the US, in the hopes that the US economy slips into another Great Depression, just so they can say, "I told you so." How about stepping up to the plate, Republican Senators, and doing what's right for the country, and not just for your political party.

[All Network Posts] ProgressNow Colorado | Michael Collins's Blog: White Paper ...: Post from Michael Collins's Blog:. White Paper Justifying Iraq War Written Three Months before Intel Report Arrived.

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Blackwater Booted from Iraq: Iraqi officials said the lingering outrage over a September 2007 shooting in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead led to its decision. The shooting strained relations between Washington and Baghdad and fueled the anti-American insurgency in Iraq, where many Iraqis saw the bloodshed as a demonstration of American brutality and arrogance.

[Babalu Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator] Ha Ha, the joke is on us! | Babalu Blog: an island on the net ...: Something else crosses my mind, remember how Obama and his surrogates kept bringing up the $10 billion a month we are spending on the Iraq war?  How does 80 times that amount strike you for one-shot spending spree that will cost trillions once it’s all said and done?

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