http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis332.html
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New 'Costs of War' Report: Hundreds of Thousands Dead, Trillions Spent
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/15
Iraq 10 Years On: A Photographer s Story of War
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/03/15
Myths, Devastation Continue 10 Years After Iraq Invasion
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/18-2
Ten Years After: How Not to Teach About the Iraq War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/18-4
The Iraq War and oil
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/18-7
Ten Years Ago and Today: A Warfare State of Mind
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/18
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Ten Years Later: Counting the Costs of War in Iraq
Andrew Stelzer, National Radio Project: Ten years later, American troops have officially left Iraq, but the occupation and its effects continue. How have things changed? And what, if anything, has the world learned?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15153-ten-years-later-counting-the-costs-of-war-in-iraq
Democrats Share the Blame for Tragedy of Iraq War
Stephen Zunes, Truthout: The Democrats who voted to support the war and rationalized that vote by making false claims about Iraq s weapons of mass destruction programs were responsible for allowing the Bush administration to get away with lying about Iraq s alleged threat.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15100-democrats-share-the-blame-for-tragedy-of-iraq-war
Iraq: War s Legacy of Cancer
Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera: Two US-led wars in Iraq have left behind hundreds of tons of depleted uranium munitions.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15166-iraq-wars-legacy-of-cancer
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MI6 and CIA Were Told Before Invasion That Iraq Had No Active WMD
By Richard Norton-Taylor
BBC s Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed intelligence from Iraqi foreign minister and spy chief.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34338.htm
Bush May Be Gone, But ''Psychosis'' of U.S. Foreign Policy Prevails
Video Interview
''We are being given lessons in morality [by world leaders] while tens of thousands are being killed, while whole countries are shattered, while whole civilizations are driven back decades, if not centuries...''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34336.htm
Iraq: Ten Years Ago and Today: A Warfare State of Mind
By Norman Solomon
Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, don t expect the vast numbers of media hotshots and U.S. officials who propelled that catastrophe to utter a word of regret. Many are busy with another project: assisting the push for war on Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34333.htm
U.S. Still Hasn t Learned Its Lessons
By Robert Taylor
I am not quite sure most Americans have come to grips with what has been to done to Iraq by the U.S. government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34332.htm
Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre
Video
WARNING: This video contains images that depict the reality and horror of war. Veteran admits: Bodies melted away before us.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10907.htm
My Lai 45 Years Later And the Unknown Atrocities of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
By Nick Turse
On the anniversary of the infamous My Lai massacre, Nick Turse recalls the numerous, less-well-known atrocities that marked the Vietnam War, and asks which atrocities from Iraq and Afghanistan we will be remembering in 45 years.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34331.htm
The Real Cost Of Our Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan
Lesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Michigan, lies down in front of the grave of her brother, Ryan Coyer, who served with the U.S. Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia March 11, 2013.
http://is.gd/sdlPO4
From Information Clearing House
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What we learned in Iraq
Reason
by Steve Chapman
03/18/13
Ten years ago this week, Americans were about to be introduced to a strange new concept, as they awaited the U.S. war to bring regime change in Iraq. Coined by American military officers, it encapsulated a situation in which everything went right until everything went wrong. The term was 'catastrophic success...
http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/18/what-we-learned-in-iraq
Ten years later: When is the reckoning?
Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
03/18/13
Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, the war criminals are still at large. Saddam Hussein is dead and buried, but the cabal that lied us into war is still around and not only that, they are mocking us from their podiums in the media, justifying and obscuring their crimes. ... There is much talk of the 'lessons' the war has supposedly taught us, and there is a significant debate about this, but what s clear is the lesson learned by the architects of this war: that being a neocon means never having to say you are sorry...
http://tinyurl.com/btzdujf
Iraq War among world s worst events
CounterPunch
by David Swanson
03/18/13
At 10 years since the launch of Operation Iraqi Liberation (to use the original name with the appropriate acronym, OIL) and over 22 years since Operation Desert Storm, there is little evidence that any significant number of people in the United States have a realistic idea of what our government has done to the people of Iraq, or of how these actions compare to other horrors of world history. A majority of Americans believe the war since 2003 has hurt the United States but benefitted Iraq. A plurality of Americans believe, not only that Iraqis should be grateful, but that Iraqis are in fact grateful...
http://tinyurl.com/cnzt56a
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fallujah
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