4189 Dead Americans in Iraq
The latest 'rant' by the news media is that casualties are down in this illegal war and therefore things are looking up.
Right. Tell that to those families that lost their loved ones for a war that was never supposed to be fought !
This war has CAUSED increases of terrorist networks globally, it has reduced the security of nations on every continent and we are supposed to continue to TRUST whom?
Republicans?
I don't think so !
October 29, 2008 - 9:30 PM
Iraq says U.S. deal would ban strikes on neighbours (click here)
By Peter Graff and Mariam Karouny
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq wants to amend a draft security pact with the United States to ban U.S. forces from striking neighbouring countries from Iraqi territory, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
Spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Iraq also wanted to change the wording covering the possible prosecution of U.S. soldiers in Iraqi courts, a sensitive issue for Washington.
U.S. negotiators began on Wednesday to scrutinize the changes demanded by Iraq to the security pact, which sets the conditions for U.S. troops to operate in the country after their United Nations mandate expires in December.
U.S. President George W. Bush said he was still "hopeful and confident" a security deal could be agreed.
"We're analyzing those amendments, we obviously want to be helpful and constructive without undermining basic principles," Bush said after meeting the leader of Iraq's Kurdistan region, Masoud Barzani, at the White House....
The circumstances faced by Iraqis cannot be solved by USA occupation and continued war.
The longer the USA propagates war, the longer it will take for Iraq to find an economic foothold that translates into more than 'oil sales.'
IRAQ: Unemployment and violence increase poverty (click here)
17 Oct 2006 11:26:41 GMT
BAGHDAD, 17 October (IRIN) - Mounir Zeid, 32, says he likes to remember the good old days before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Then, most people were employed and his income was enough to afford holidays abroad. Today, however, poverty has struck and he finds himself sharing one room with his four brothers.
"We were having a good life in Iraq [before 2003] - good food, nice clothes and we enjoyed travelling - but everything went out with the occupation," Zeid said.
"I and my parents lost our jobs in the government so we started to use our savings. Today, we are living in a ghetto and sometimes even breakfast has to be forgotten because there is no money for that," he added.
Zeid is typical of millions of Iraqis struggling to cope with rising levels of poverty, largely as a result of unemployment.
"Every day you can see families searching for houses in the ghetto areas because they have lost what they had and are joining the new Iraq truth," Zeid said....
