Iraq Casualties

Truck Bomb Kills At Least 19 In Northern Iraq

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — Kurdish lawmakers demanded the government step up security in northern Iraq after a suicide truck bomb flattened a neighborhood in a s...

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Iraq Civilian Deaths Are Highest Since April

Reuters | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) The number of civilians recorded killed in violence in Iraq shot up to 393 in August, its highest level since April, after a spate ...

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The Price of this War Just Keeps Going up

Christina Patterson | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

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Christina Patterson

War is an abomination. It's a last resort. It's a thing you do when it's the only thing to do.

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US Soldier Killed In Northern Iraq, Bringing May Toll To 25

AP | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed in a grenade attack in northern Iraq. That raises the number of American t...

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Baghdad Bomb Kills US Soldier, Making May Deadliest In 8 Months

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier Wednesday in Baghdad, making May the deadliest month for the American military since September. ...

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Baghdad Roadside Bomb Kills 3 US Soldiers

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.21.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — Bombers struck in Baghdad and a northern city Thursday, killing three American soldiers and nearly two dozen Iraqis in a new spasm of ...

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Killing People vs Aborting Fetuses: An Open Letter to Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon

Myriam Miedzian | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

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Myriam Miedzian

Like you, the church seems much more concerned with the survival of fetuses and "possible fetuses" than with human beings.

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Iraq War Anniversary: Violence Down But Doubts Persist Over Political, Financial Stability (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 04.19.2009 | World

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March 20 marks the sixth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Over the course of the war, at least 4,259 members of the U.S. military and tens of...

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Legacy My Ass

Norman Horowitz | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media

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Norman Horowitz

I have not given up my desire for NBC, CBS, ABC, or Fox to present a documentary about the Bush transgressions during his eight triumphant year Presidency.

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Muntadir al-Zaidi and Us

William E. Connolly | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

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William E. Connolly

It is a pity that more American journalists have not appreciated the heroism of Muntadir al-Zaidi, the way he spoke for us as well as for them when he threw his shoes at Bush.

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American Hero: Mother of Electrocuted U.S. Soldier Inspires National Probes

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.29.2008 | Media

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Greg Mitchell

Cheryl Harris has been instrumental in getting Congress, and the Pentagon, to probe the issue of noncombat deaths -- and she finally testified before Congress two weeks ago.

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Army To Probe Firing Of Woman Who Opened Up Iraq War Funerals

Washington Post | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

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Army Secretary Pete Geren has asked his staff for an internal review to examine the Army's firing last month of Gina Gray, the former public affairs d...

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Tragic Trend: Yet Another Soldier Electrocuted in Iraq

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

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Greg Mitchell

As some may know, I have followed here, for months, the saga of my friend Cheryl Harris, whose son, Ryan Maseth, was electrocuted and died in Iraq se...

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The Surge Is Working? Not If You Read the Latest GAO Report

Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

What the GAO report makes clear, above all else, is that contrary to what the mainstream media and the GOP would have you believe, the surge has not worked. It's time for the U.S. military to go home.

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Baghdad Car Bomb Kills At Least 13

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — A truck packed with rockets blew up Wednesday in a Shiite area of Baghdad, killing 18 people in the deadliest single blast in the city...

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The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

Vincent Bugliosi | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

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Vincent Bugliosi

To discuss anything less than the death penalty for someone responsible for over 100,000 deaths would on its face seem ludicrous. But we are dealing with the president of the United States here.

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The 3,999th Was Important, Too

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media

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The media, it has been amply shown, has dropped off in its coverage of the war -- studies prove it, war correspondents lament it -- and we've all noticed it.

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New Iraq War Plan: High Troop Levels Through 2008

New York Times | STEVEN LEE MYERS and THOM SHANKER | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home

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Troop levels in Iraq would remain nearly the same through 2008 as at any time during five years of war, under plans presented to President Bush on Mon...

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Bush Sympathetic As War Toll Hits 4,000

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Marking a grim milestone, a determined President Bush declared Monday the lives of 4,000 U.S. military men and women who have died ...

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Cheney On 4,000 Dead Americans: They Volunteered

ABC News | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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Wrapping up a nine-day overseas trip to Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney was asked, in an exclusive interview with ABC News, about the effect on the n...

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4000 US Soldiers Killed In Iraq

MSNBC | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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The death toll for U.S. solders in Iraq has reached 4000: The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a road...

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Cheney Spends Iraq Anniversary Fishing Off Sultan Of Omans' Boat

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Vice President Dick Cheney went fishing in the waters between Oman and Iran on Wednesday, borrowing the Sultan of Oman's 60-foot royal yacht for the m...

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Bush: We Can't Jeopardize Gains in Iraq

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Remarks of President George Bush 5 Year Anniversary of Iraq War The Pentagon Arlington, VA Read more about Bush's speech marking the five-year-annive...

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Iraq Casualties, Iraq Costs, Iraq Numbers

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Below Is a detailed list of Iraq "by the numbers" released by Senator Harry Reid's office: The Cost to Our Forces in Iraq 3,990: American troop...

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Red Cross Slams "Critical" Situation In Post-Invasion Iraq

AFP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The humanitarian situation in post-war Iraq five years after the US-led invasion is one of the most critical in the world, the International Committee...

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