TopBillin | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 03 2008 | iraq, news, torture
One reason why "getting out of Iraq" is not simply the morally superior position. Staying isn't either, of course; there are no good options.
Quoted: It is not just women who live in fear. Professionals such as engineers, doctors and scientists have been dragged from their homes and murdered.
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The Iraq war costs about $12 billion a month. For perspective, the bailout is estimated at $700 billion.
She said they took the Bush administration’s 2008 request for war funding – $196-billion – and divided it by 12 to get a monthly cost. That works out to $16-billlion for both wars and about $12-billion just for the Iraq portion.
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Working on an article about the book that came out of this story... So sad.
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