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Rumsfeld: MIA on the True Costs of the Iraq War
By David Corn - Politics DailyI was reading Donald Rumsfeld's just-released memoir, "Known and Unknown," when I came across a passage that brought me to a dead stop: "The U.S. military involvement in Iraq has come at a high price. Combat took the lives of thousands of American servicemen and -women and left many more wounded. The U.S. Treasury spent hundreds of billions of dollars. The prolong war also poisoned our politics at home." What's missing from this picture? A hundred thousand or so dead Iraqi civilians. Iraq Body Count website, which keeps track of reported civilian casualties, reports that since the U.S. ...
Iraq Civilian Deaths Drop to Lowest Level Since 2003
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsFewer Iraqi civilians met violent deaths in 2010 than any year since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, a human rights group reported today. It warned, however, that a persistent, low-level conflict may continue to kill civilians "for years to come." In its annual report, the Iraq Body Count, a British group that monitors Iraq war deaths, said it counted at least 3,976 civilian deaths in Iraq in 2010 as of Dec. 25. That's 15 percent fewer deaths than in 2009 and the lowest overall yearly toll since the Iraq war began. The group estimates that 4,680 Iraqi civilians died in 2009. The highest civilian ...
Iraq Scorecard: The War So Far
By David Wood - Politics DailyWars are inherently chaotic and confusing, and judging the outcome so far of the war in Iraq is doubly difficult. The formal end of the U.S. combat role there, and the drawdown of U.S. troops to below 50,000, have unleashed a flood of emotional reaction, and President Obama's speech this evening should provoke even more debate about the cause, conduct and consequences of the U.S. invasion in 2003. Here are some data points to guide the debate. Most are from the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index; the statistics on American battle wounded and evacuees are from the Veterans for Common Sense, ...
Iraq War Triumphalism Ignores a Key Matter: Dead Civilians
By David Corn - Politics DailyWhenever there's an election in Iraq, U.S. triumphalism follows. In a recent column, Peter Wehner, my PoliticsDaily.com colleague, touts George W. Bush's war in Iraq and joins others in the it-hasn't-turned-out-so-bad chorus. But these pronouncements serve as a reminder that it's rather easy to be a freedom fighter with somebody else's blood. Wehner, who worked in the Bush White House, argues that the "dramatic turnaround" in Iraq since 2006 shows that the war was not, as columnist Joe Klein once observed, "probably the biggest foreign policy mistake in American history." He echoes Thomas ...
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