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US Spent Too Much In Iraq, Got Little In Return, Watchdog Report Says - NPR (blog) Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:56:17 GMT

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US Spent Too Much In Iraq, Got Little In Return, Watchdog Report Says
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A decade and $60 billion later what does the U.S. have to show for the reconstruction efforts in Iraq? That's the question being answered by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction in his final report to Congress. The report by Stuart ...
US May Have Wasted $8 Billion in Effort to Rebuild IraqABC News (blog)
Iraq Reconstruction Cost US $60 Billion, Left Behind Corruption And WasteHuffington Post
Iraq Reconstruction: Read the Full Report and Lessons LearnedPBS NewsHour (blog)
Wired (blog) -New York Times
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UN-LIBERATED: Failing Iraq's Women - Huffington Post Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:54:05 GMT

UN-LIBERATED: Failing Iraq's Women
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dorothy_parkerfan March 07, 2013 00:44 hmm... perhaps iraq wasn't about hussein, but more about right wingers attempting to push back contemporary culture, and nationalization of its oil industry -- very much like venezuela... targeting the elimination ...

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The Real Radicals of the Iraq War: Its Proponents - The Atlantic Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:39:21 GMT

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The Real Radicals of the Iraq War: Its Proponents
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On the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, The Guardian editorializes that "with the passage of time, the judgment of those who took to the streets against the rush to war only looks wiser." My colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates writes that "more than anything ...
10 Years Later: Looking Back on the Iraq War So We Can Clearly Look ForwardHuffington Post
Strategic Horizons: Iraq's Biggest Questions Still Unanswered for USWorld Politics Review
Selling the Iraq WarSt. Louis American

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From El Salvador to Iraq: Washington's man behind brutal police squads - The Guardian Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:16:45 GMT

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From El Salvador to Iraq: Washington's man behind brutal police squads
The Guardian
On the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion the allegations of American links to the units that eventually accelerated Iraq's descent into civil war cast the US occupation in a new and even more controversial light. The investigation was sparked over ...
Petraeus Linked to Iraq Torture CentersDaily Beast
Staggering Guardian Report Ties David Petraeus to Iraq Torture CentersThe Atlantic Wire
Petraeus linked to torture units in IraqSalon
Fast Company -Antiwar.com (blog)
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James Steele: America's mystery man in Iraq - video - The Guardian Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:15:12 GMT

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James Steele: America's mystery man in Iraq - video
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A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ...

Iraq's depleted uranium clean-up to cost $30m as contamination spreads - The Guardian Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:44:57 GMT

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Iraq's depleted uranium clean-up to cost $30m as contamination spreads
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Photograph: John Moore/AP. Cleaning up more than 300 sites in Iraq still contaminated by depleted uranium (DU) weapons will cost at least $30m, according to a report by a Dutch peace group to be published on Thursday. The report, which was funded by ...

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James Steele in Iraq: only known video footage - The Guardian Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:15:10 GMT

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James Steele in Iraq: only known video footage
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This is the only known footage of former special forces veteran James Steele in Iraq. He is seen standing next to Colonel James Coffman, who has described himself as being General David Petraeus's 'eyes and ears on the ground' in Iraq. Petraeus ...

Too Much Money Spent in Iraq for Too Few Results - ABC News Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:17:44 GMT

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Too Much Money Spent in Iraq for Too Few Results
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Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation were worth the cost. In his final report to Congress, Special Inspector ...

A Virginia Marine killed in Iraq is memorialized with a ballet by his mother - Washington Post Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:08:57 GMT

A Virginia Marine killed in Iraq is memorialized with a ballet by his mother
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Across the nation, parents of more than 6,600 service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan have found countless ways to honor their children — with benches, parks, poems, scholarships. But this weekend on a Manassas stage, an audience will see not ...

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'We were interviewing James Steele in Iraq and I saw blood everywhere' - video - The Guardian Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:13:51 GMT

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'We were interviewing James Steele in Iraq and I saw blood everywhere' - video
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Photojournalist Gilles Peress tells how he visited US special forces veteran James Steele in a detention centre in Samarra - part of the Sunni Triangle in Iraq. Peress says Steele brought them to a room to do an interview, where blood was dripping down ...