Bulletin Board - September 2 Issue »
- Iraq
Perspectives
"We've made good progress. Iraq is more secure."
-- President George W. Bush, speaking on August 8th from his Texas ranch alongside Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld (CQ Today Midday Update 8/8/03)
"American military power seems unable to keep up with events in a country where everything is out of control." -- Simon Serfaty, a specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
FOOTNOTE. On August 29, barely 10 days after a truck bomb killed 23 people at the UN offices in Baghdad, a car bomb outside the Tomb of Ali, one of the Islamic world's most important shrines, killed at least 82, including Ayatollah Mohammad Bakr al-Hakim, a leading Shiite Muslim cleric, who was a key stabilizing influence. Mary-Jane Deeb, a Middle East specialist at the American University in Washington, said that Hakim "wanted to prevent a confrontation between Shiites and Americans, between Iranians and Americans, between Shiites and Sunnites." More American soldiers have died in the post-war unrest than during the war itself. (t r u t h o u t | 08.31 - Agence France-Presse, 8/29/03)
Cost of the US War on Iraq -  Costofwar.com
For the cost of one minute of the war in Iraq ($763,000), we could have paid the salary and benefits for 15 registered nurses. - Susan Ives, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 8/28/03, A17
Opinion editorial -- "Fistfuls of Dollars"
By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, 8/29/03, A23
Excerpt. The direct military cost of the occupation is $4 billion a month, and there's no end in sight…Even the government of a superpower can't simultaneously offer tax cuts equal to 15 percent of revenue, provide all its retirees with prescription drugs and single-handedly take on the world's evildoers - single-handedly because we've alienated our allies. In fact, given the size of our budget deficit, it's not clear that we can afford to do even one of these things.
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