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[SignOnSanDiego.com] US military deaths in Iraq war at 4275: As of Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at least 4,275 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

[Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] US Senate confirms Hill as Iraq ambassador: Senators voted 73-23 to approve President Barack Obama's choice for one of the most sensitive US diplomatic posts, in which Hill will help manage the withdrawal of all US forces from war-torn Iraq by the end of 2011. Supporters said Hill's experience with .

[PoliticalArticles.NET] Criminal Intent: The Bush Dictatorship Tortured For Non-Existent ...: The criminal intent that would need to be shown, malice aforethought, could be proven by demonstrating that Bush took them to war with “reckless and wanton disregard for the consequences and indifference to human life.”

[Crooks and Liars] Bush Team Still Peddling 9/11-Iraq Link Torture Failed to Produce ...: In a world where terrorists armed with box cutters had just killed nearly 3,000 people, America had to decide whether we could tolerate a sworn enemy that acted belligerently, that supported terror, and that intelligence agencies around the world believed had weapons of mass destruction. It was clear to me, to members of both political parties, and to many leaders around the world that after 9/11, this was a risk we could not afford to take."

[Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Torture, Iraq and 9/11: For most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told them were there.”It was during this period that CIA interrogators waterboarded two alleged top al Qaida detainees repeatedly ”” Abu Zubaydah at least 83 times in August 2002 and Khalid Sheik Muhammed 183 times in March 2003 ”” according to a newly released Justice Department document…

[PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts] PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » The Torture Issue ...: The Torture Issue Escalates: Iraq “Intel” Derived from “Enhanced Interrogations”. By Steven L.

[Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Middle East] US military deaths in Iraq war at 4274: As of Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at least 4274 members of the US military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

[Cafe Talk Aggregator] A murmur of war | San Fernando Curt's Blog: The Obama administration is stacked with liberal hawks who supported the Iraq War, and figures from the former Bush administration are signing book deals and making the rounds of press conferences and interviews, propagating meae culpae of the "mistakes were made" sort. A war of choice is being quietly transformed into an unfortunate but ultimately unavoidable mistake, one caused not by politicians and public intellectuals cocooned in their hubris and their reckless ideologies, but by an "intelligence failure."

[Reidblog [The Reid Report blog]] Reidblog [The Reid Report blog]: The push to torture us into war: . The Pentagon's general counsel's office contacted the military agency that runs the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape programs -- schools where U.S. personnel and contractors are taught how to resist abuses that prisoners of war have been through before -- in December 2001 to find out how the SERE training could help interrogators break al-Qaida suspects. Military officials at the time told top Pentagon aides that the

[The Ruthless Truth blog] Torture, Iraq and 9/11 - 5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Rumsfeld ...: In other words, top Bush administration officials not only knowingly lied about a non-existent connection between Al Qaida and Iraq, but they pushed and insisted that interrogators use special torture methods aimed at extracting false confessions to attempt to create such a false linkage.

[netwmd.com - The War to Mobilize Democracy] netwmd - Leaders’ mortality may sway Iraq’s health: On 29 January 2009, General Ray Odierno, commander of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, said: “We are getting .Talabani has used his relationships cultivated during decades in opposition to cajole Sunnis and Shia, Kurds and Arabs into compromise ”” first on the constitution and then to walk absolutist politicians back from the brink of civil war.

[JustGetThere] Torture, Iraq and 9/11 - JustGetThere: "While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not successful in establishing a link between al Qaida and Iraq," Burney told staff of the Army Inspector General. "The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish that link .

[Blog on the Run: Reloaded] Crime upon crime « Blog on the Run: Reloaded: The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist.

[Docuticker] Docuticker » Blog Archive » The Weapons That Kill Civilians ...: Of the total of 91,358 Iraqi civilian deaths from armed violence recorded for this period, we excluded 10,027 deaths from prolonged violence (e.g., the two sieges of Fallujah and prolonged episodes of violence during the invasion of March 20, 2003, through April 30, 2003), and 20,850 deaths recorded only in aggregate reports from morgues and hospitals, since these deaths were not reliably linked to specific events of a weapon’s use. As our table shows, we focused on the remaining 60,481 deaths of Iraqi civilians and the causative weapons in 14,196 armed-violence events considered to be of short duration (lasting up to two calendar dates), occurring in an identifiable location, and directly causing one or more reported civilian deaths.

[PUPPETGOV] PUPPETGOV » Torture, Iraq and 9/11: (2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: "The entire resolution of Iraq as a success will revolve around the diplomacy that we apply to it and our ability to seek political reconciliation, which will be implemented by that diplomacy," said Kerry, D-Massachusetts. Hill replaces Ryan Crocker, who was the top American diplomat in Baghdad from March 2007 until February.

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