Iraqi Elections: Full Coverage
http://electroniciraq.net/news/1808.shtml


Informant: Hopedance


$200 million a day on war in Iraq, and unable to offer social security...

David Diggins

Die Gegenveranstaltung zum Weltwirtschaftsforum hat mit Demonstrationen begonnen. Der Protest mit 200.000 Teilnehmern richtete sich vor allem gegen die US-Politik im Irak. Es war die bisher größte globalisierungskritische Kundgebung in Brasilien. Daran nahmen unter anderem Sozialisten, Gewerkschafter, afrobrasilianische Trommler und Kirchenvertreter aus der ganzen Welt teil. Eröffnet wurde das Forum durch ein Friedensritual brasilianischer Indianer.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5920.php

McWilliams carries the scars of battle and three years of service in Iraq, but he came away from the experience with something more -- a bill from the Defense Department for more than $3,000 and 30 days to pay it.

http://www.craigdailypress.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/15670
http://tinyurl.com/3krjx


From Information Clearing House

One third of this new force are Ex-Iraqi security troops who had been given special honors and decorations by Saddam Hussen.

http://207.44.245.159/article7904.htm

Robert Fisk in Baghdad

America has insisted on these elections - which will produce a largely Shia parliament representing Iraq's largest religious community - because they are supposed to provide an exit strategy for embattled US forces, but they seem set to change the geopolitical map of the Arab world in ways the Americans could never have imagined. For George Bush and Tony Blair this is the law of unintended consequences writ large.

http://207.44.245.159/article7908.htm

http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/hoping-for-proper-election-for-proper.html


Informant: Yoshie Furuhashi

From ufpj-news

Insult to injury: Some wounded soldiers back from Iraq are having to pay for meals at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Veterans' groups say it's another symptom of fighting a costly war on the cheap. One Iraq War veteran still on active duty told Salon reporter Mark Benjamin, "You know they treat us like shit up here" at Walter Reed.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2754