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Deaths Private Contractors in Iraq, Working in Support of US Army Troops - More than 180,000 in August 2007 Journalists killed - 139, 93 by murder and 46 by acts of war Journalists killed by US Forces - 14 Iraqi Police and Soldiers Killed - 9,278 Iraqi Civilians Killed, Estimated - A UN issued report dated Sept 20, 2006 stating that Iraqi civilian casualties have been significantly under-reported. Casualties are reported at 50,000 to over 100,000, but may be much higher. Some informed estimates place Iraqi civilian casualities at over 600,000.
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No End In Sight
By: Magen Cooper
Money spent on war• U.S. 2009 Monthly Spending in Iraq - $7.3 billion as of
Oct 2009 • U.S. 2008 Monthly Spending in Iraq - $12 billion • U.S. Spending per Second - $5,000 in 2008 (per Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid on May 5, 2008) • Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq -
$390,000
Deaths• Private Contractors in Iraq, Working in Support of US Army Troops -
More than 180,000 in August 2007 • Journalists killed - 139, 93 by murder and 46 by acts of
war • Journalists killed by US Forces - 14 • Iraqi Police and Soldiers Killed - 9,278 • Iraqi Civilians Killed, Estimated - A UN issued report
dated Sept 20, 2006 stating that Iraqi civilian casualties have been significantly under-reported. Casualties are reported at 50,000 to over 100,000, but may be much higher. Some informed estimates place Iraqi civilian casualities at over 600,000.
No provisional Iraq Gov.• After the fall of the Ba ath Party, an entity known as the Coalition
Provisional Authority (CPA), which was led by a senior American diplomat, assumed the governance of Iraq. An Iraqi governing council appointed by the CPA had limited powers. The main goal of the CPA was to maintain security and rebuild Iraq’s badly damaged
and deteriorated infrastructure
The deba’athification of Iraq Gov.• What happened was that Iraqis realized that the de-Baathification
order that was promulgated by Amb. Paul Bremer during his term as the civil administrator of Iraq was overly broad as drafted, and much more overly broad as applied. It captured a large number of people who were innocent of any wrongdoing by any objective measure and were deprived of the ability to earn a living and support their families. The current law attempts to, at least on its face, reverse this trend. In theory, yes, it should be a positive step toward reconciliation. But of course how the law is applied becomes extremely important.
Disbanding the Iraq Military
• Coalition officials explained the limits on weapons as an attempt to improve security in a country that is still plagued by looting and lawlessness. The dismantling of the Iraqi army is part of an effort to purge remnants of Saddam Hussein's influence from the society.
I got most angry when watching No End In Sight when I saw all the innocent lives being taken.
I also got very angry when I saw an American soldiers dead body being dragged through the streets and people cheering this on.
