http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7217367


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

Irak: Die US-Bilanz der amerikanischen Toten
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19144/1.html

Noam Choamsky: Preventive War 'The Supreme Crime':

Iraq: The invasion that will live in infamy
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4416.htm


From Information Clearing House

The Bush administration's New Year's resolution should be to pull out of Iraq. Already, the United States has lost 1,300 soldiers, and 10,000 U.S. soldiers have been wounded, at a rate now of almost 1,000 a month.

http://www.madison.com/wsj/opinion/others/index.php?ntid=22647&ntpid=1
http://snipurl.com/bp5k


From Information Clearing House

These photographs are grouped in solemn rows without statistics to show the extent of U.S. military losses (in Iraq) in one view.

http://www.duckdaotsu.org/valor.html


From Information Clearing House

Torture reconsidered: Shock, awe and the human body

William Pfaff on the US of torture:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/21/news/edpfaff.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

by Steven Laffoley

Common Dreams

12/30/04

The Bush administration knows its history. Spinning illegal invasions into righteous liberations has been an effective practice for a thousand years. In 1066, William of Normandy invaded, occupied, and plundered Saxon England. But history remembers William's invasion as one of righteous liberation. Why? Because William had the sense to spin his crime into heroic art on the Bayeux Tapestry. That is, he told a good story. Of course, much like Bush's invasion of Iraq, the true story of William's invasion of England was something altogether darker and more brutish. It is a story with a frightening modern day moral...

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1230-11.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1230-01.htm


Informant: SIUHIN

Infuriated by the U.S.-led 'crusade' in Iraq, a Lebanese teacher left his country and steady job intending to die for the insurgency.

http://207.44.245.159/article7574.htm