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[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.

 [Freedomstruth.blogspot.com] Freedom's Truth & Liberating Iraq: In his video Zarqawi warned Sunnis in and outside of Iraq that their community was in danger of being overwhelmed by “the Crusaders and the evil Rejectionists,” referring to Americans and Shiites, respectively. His words of inspiration might also be read as words of desperation: “God almighty has chosen you to conduct holy war in your lands and has opened the doors of paradise to you.”...

 [Msnbc.msn.com] Alterman: Slacker Friday - Altercation - MSNBC.com: "The next six months in Iraq””which will determine the prospects for .When the discussion did occasionally turn to the facts behind the Swift Boat .

 [Alternet.org] AlterNet: Special Coverage: War on Iraq: Recruiters should realize it's not military service Americans are rejecting, but rather military service in support of a cause not deemed worthy of the sacrifice expected.

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