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Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''Most discussion about the 'costs of war' focuses on two numbers: dollars spent and American troops who gave their lives. A decade into the war on terror, those official costs are over a trillion dollars and more than 6,000 dead. But as overwhelming as those numbers are, they don t tell the full story. In one of the most comprehensive studies available, researchers in the Eisenhower Study Group at Brown University s Watson Institute for International Studies looked at the human, economic, social and political costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as our military actions in Pakistan.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8238-the-real-costs-of-war

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War for terror

Liberty For All
by John Jay Myers

03/29/12

Wars are not about ideals. Wars are about things, things people want. Telling people that wars are about religion or ideals is what is known as propaganda. No one wants to be the guy who is fighting over a 'thing' because that makes you appear greedy. Terror is not a group of people, or a country, it is a tactic used in war...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7458


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Immense Tolls of Imperial War

Casualty Comprehension

By Christian Sorensen

Juxtaposition provides insight into Pentagon delusion. Over 6,400 uniformed American service-members and 2,330 mercenaries have died in the Global War on Terror since 2001, but their corpses might end up in a landfill when they return to the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30978.htm

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The Vengeance of ''Don t Retreat, Reload'' Vigilantes

By Robert S. Becker

What the Bush Doctrine distilled into unilateral pre-emptive perfidy, executed by Rumsfeld s dire ''shock and awe,'' then justified by Cheney s One Per Cent Doctrine, was domesticated by this in-your-face mandate from a presumptive national leader.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30983.htm



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
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