$720,000,000 wasted every day

Laurie Anderson - Only An Expert http://www.laurieanderson.com/

A BBC probe has disclosed that around $23 billion dollars may have been lost,
stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq. The investigation has also
revealed he extent to which some private contractors have profited from the
conflict and rebuilding. U.S. corporations and Iraqi government ministers implicated
in wrongdoing. A U.S. gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations
against some of the top U.S. companies. Read the whole story.

The War Against Iraq is Costing 720 million Dollars Every Day.

$720,000,000 wasted every day.

See some of the things that money could have bought instead.

For more information on alternatives for spending the estimated 3TRILLION DOLLARS that the Iraq war will cost, watch the Three Trillion Dollar Spending Spree video.

John McCain in Dr. Strangelove?

You decide after watching this thought provoking video.

At least
4,094 US military killed,

more than 30,333 wounded & over

1,221,154
civilians estimated dead in the war against Iraq

Get more casualty.





The figures on the left include reported
civilian deaths only. The figure in the center represents an estimate of civilian casualties based upon a study by public health experts in 2006.

Read the 2006 article.

New WHO study:

40 months of war, 151,000 Iraqis dead by violence through June, 2006. Violence now leading cause of death in Iraq. 3,775 violent deaths per month.

Read the new study.

** A Life, Wasted. **

Click below to read an open letter from Paul E. Schroeder, the father of a soldier killed in Iraq:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010200974.html

Not
Your Soldier

Attention
persons of military age! You must see this powerful movie about
resisting the war in Iraq and about the GI movement against the
war in Vietnam.

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