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The War On Terror : Iraq News and Information

[Iraq News and Information] But that was not the end of the negative impacts of the war on terror, because president Bush and his administration engaged in two wars that would eventually cost the government three trillion American dollars and since a lot of it is allocated through taxation, people could not pay off their debt, mortgages, etc”¦ and with the rise of oil prices and the weakened US dollar the American economy has gone into a recession that could be considered stronger than the 1930’s. A lot of the American people, especially the educated, saw this coming an would criticize the American government for engaging in such an open-ended war, for example Timothy Garton Ash describe the war on terror in his article “The War on Terror is Over.” As an “abstract noun.” He also discussed the difference between this war previous ones that the USA engaged in by saying “It’s never been anything like the Second World War, against Hitler’s Germany, or the Cold War, against the Soviet Union.

April 10, 2010

An Overview of the Iraq War : Iraq News and Information

[Iraq News and Information] The main reason offered for the proposed war was that Iraq has nuclear capabilities and that the war would act as a means of disabling such capabilities - thus the war would protect the interests of the US and further afield by disarming them. Countries that were opposed to the war, such as members of the UN security council who did not back plans, suggested that such fears were not correct.

Posted at 03:34 PM

November 03, 2009

The Iraq war was all about oil

[Tim Worstall] I don’t think the Iraq war would have been fought if Iraq was a banana exporter, but that doesn’t mean the war was about oil either; perhaps the presence of oil just mean Saddam more of a geopolitical problem, and the war was about geopolitics (I’m not arguing this, just demonstrating that Stephens argument above is not sufficient to conclude the war was about oil)

Posted at 03:04 PM

August 04, 2009

Political Cortex: Britain Launches Inquiry into Iraq War

[Political Cortex] Then the Iraq War mission suddenly changed from a defensive war to protect the U.S. from those awful weapons of mass destruction and a nuclear holocaust to a freedom and democracy war for Iraq and the entire Middle East. The delusional rantings succeeded in keeping the billions in U.S. taxpayers' dollars continuing the Iraq War debacle.

Posted at 03:02 PM

March 15, 2008

SXSW Movie Review: Body of War

[/Film] Case Directed by Ellen Spiro, a professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, and Phil Donahue, the former television host whose last television program was cancelled by MSNBC (ostensibly for low ratings, but probably for his liberal-progressive views), Body of War, a deeply moving, ultimately heart-wrenching documentary, follows Tomas Young, an Iraq War veteran injured in 2005 during an assault on convoy, his arduous rehab, physical setbacks, his marriage, and his political activism as a member of the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). Bright, articulate, and passionate, Young found purpose and meaning by becoming a vocal advocate against the war.

Posted at 03:32 PM

January 17, 2008

Cost of War

[Costofwar.com] A running total of the amount of money spent by the US Government to finance the war, based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.