These criminals seem to go by stages... first they used themselves, then they used teens, then women, then the disabled, and now they are targeting little children!
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Poison cake kills Iraqi children Two children die and other Iraqis are critically ill, after eating cake poisoned with thallium in Baghdad. Ref. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/m...ast/7237086.stm |
International Level: International Guru / Political Participation: 3231 100%
Australia troops 'can leave Iraq'
The time has come for Australian combat troops to leave Iraq, the head of the country's armed forces says.
Ref. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/a...fic/7254151.stm
The Three Trillion Dollar War: Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Economist Linda Bilmes on the True Cost of the US Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
One week after President Bush rejected charges the war in Iraq has hurt the US economy, a new book puts a conservative estimate of the war¹s cost at $3 trillion so far. In their first national broadcast interview upon their book¹s publication, Nobel laureate and former chief World Bank economist, Joseph Stiglitz, and co-author Linda Bilmes of Harvard University say the Bush administration has repeatedly low-balled the cost of the war"¹and even kept a second set of records hidden from the American public.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/29/excl...trillion_dollar
'Chemical Ali' execution approved
The execution of Saddam Hussein's henchman "Chemical Ali" is finally approved by Iraq's presidency.
Ref. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/m...ast/7270396.stm
I thought the US was protecting this guy because he was giving info to the ground troops during the invasion?
International Level: Activist / Political Participation: 29 2.9%
Senators Levin and Warner are finally getting around to asking where Iraq's oil money is, and why they aren't using it to pay for more of the reconstruction effort.
(CNN)Senators: Where is Iraq's oil money going?
Projections put Iraqi oil production at over 2 million barrels a day. Meanwhile in the US, who is currently paying for reconstruction, we are over a hundred dollars a barrel. Where is Iraq's oil money going?... good question.