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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.

 [Oregonlive.com] OregonLive.com: The Oregonian's Oregon at War Blog: As the deaths of SSG Robert Paul, SGT Nathaniel "Brad" Lindsey and, last month, PVT Joseph Blake have shown, Oregon is more exposed than ever to the war in Afghanistan. Soldiers who serve there often complain that is the forgotten war, with a smaller military force on the ground and less violent enemies, or at least, enemies who are more contained than those in Iraq.

 [Washingtonpost.com] White House Briefing -- News on President George W Bush and the ...: I'm attending a conference about Iraq and America tomorrow morning, so the column will resume on Wednesday. Cartoon Watch .

 [Antiwar.com] Antiwar.com Blog: From Time magazine via Joshua Micah Marshall: .After all, they must have made up a hundred lies about Iraq: that the motivation for the .

 [express checkout > global musings] Chavez in 61st GA session spotlight: The Sudanese president said his country won’t allow the United Nations to take control of peacekeepers in Darfur under any circumstance, claiming that rights groups have exaggerated the crisis there in a bid for more cash. But Omar al-Bashir did say that the African Union, which now runs the peacekeeping mission in Darfur, should be allowed to augment its forces with more logistics, advisers and other support.

[the new citizenship project] Chavez calls Bush 'the devil': Also on Wednesday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned that terrorism is rebounding in his country and said efforts to build democracy there had suffered setbacks over the past year as violence increased, especially in the volatile south where NATO forces have been battling Taliban militants in some of the fiercest battles since the hard-line government was toppled in 2001.

[Committees of Correspondence] Muslims Beat Paris Police: One officer was hospitalized with a double fracture of the skull during Tuesday night's incident in Corbeil-Essonnes, a police source said. His colleague reportedly sustained facial and body injuries.

[Politics] US Senate Democrats plan probes into Iraq war -... : US Senate Democrats plan probes into Iraq war Reuters AlertNet, UK - 1 hour ago WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Accusing Republicans of failing to adequately monitor the conduct of the war in Iraq, Senate Democrats on Wednesday announced ”¦ Frist Blames Democratic Minority for Do-Nothing Congress, Gets ”¦ Huffington Post Democratic Policy

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