INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE

The Myths of Military Progress

By Ron Jacobs

Making occupation and calling it peace. Killing fewer and calling it progress. Rotating troops and calling it a withdrawal. Setting up new death squads and calling them allies. Lowering standards and calling it opening new opportunities.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18791.htm

THE COST OF THE WAR

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071120_ron_paul_does_the_math/

I.5 trillion might also have purchased a lot of hope for potential Jihadists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere. Weapons are useless against ideas. Fundamentalist ideas are rooted in poverty and ignorance but then so to is Bush’s Foreign Policy.  But the poverty belongs to the duped population not Bush’s base the have-mores. Check YouTube.

CHILDREN OF IRAQ

November 18th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Suffer the Children

Number of children dying higher than when the country was under sanctions.

By Hind al-Safar in Baghdad

According to a report released in May 2007 by aid agency Save the Children, “Iraq’s child mortality rate has increased by a staggering 150 per cent since 1990, more than any other country.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18734.htm

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In Case You Missed it

Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq

A documentary film by John Pilger

Sanctions enforced by the UN on Iraq since the Gulf War have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, including over half a million children – many of whom weren’t even born when the Gulf War began.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15385.htm