uchicagolaw.typepad.com - 11/24/2008
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Consider these statistics (from this mostly dated Brookings report): Time Commercial TV Stations Commercial Radio Stations Independent Newspapers and Magazines March 2006 54 114 268 Prewar (2003) 0 0 0 Or these: Internet and Telephone Subscribers Internet Subscribers Telephone Subscribers...
navyspouce.blogspot.com - 11/18/2008
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I support Victory in Iraq Day! I join
in with other bloggers over at Zombie's blog to...
lend support on November 22, 2008. We won. The Iraq War is over. I declare November 22, 2008 to be "Victory in Iraq Day." (Hereafter known as "VI Day.") By ...
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Victory In Iraq Day
tennesseefree.com - 11/18/2008
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Zombie has declared November 22, 2008 to be
the rightful Victory in Iraq (VI) day… We won....
The Iraq War is over.I declare November 22, 2008 to be “Victory in Iraq Day.” (Hereafter known as “VI Day.”) By every measure, The ...
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VICTORY IN IRAQ DAY! November 22, 2008
hxcchristian.com - 11/18/2008
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We are declaring Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 Victory
in Iraq day. By every measure, the United States...
and coalition forces have conclusively defeated all enemies in Iraq, pacified the country, deposed the previous regime, successfully helped to ...
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Victory In Iraq Day November 22nd, 2008
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Did We Save Lives After All?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Eric Posner uses a Brookings report to argue that the Iraq War may turn out to be a humanitarian success. In short: if we never invaded, Iraqi civilian deaths due to sanctions may well have been greater than the wartime deaths. ...
WAR: The Wages of War
Baseball Crank —
Eric Posner looks at the humanitarian benefits and costs of the Iraq War.
Iraq as a Humanitarian Success
Weekly Standard Blog —
The University of Chicago's Eric Posner writes:
A conservative estimate is that more than 40,000 Iraqis survive per year today than during the sanctions regime, and probably most of them children. The tight correlation between GDP and child mortality across countries bolsters this conclusion.
Let’s suppose that the sanctions regime had continued for 10 years, from 2003 to 2013, and further that security flattens out—it doesn’t get worse, but it doesn’t get better. Under these assumptions, 400,000 Iraqi children ...
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volokh.com 11/26/2008 — Tim Lambert says that the UNICEF data that I rely on have been revised, and that child mortality was not higher during the sanctions regime than it is today. See...
Changes
mudvillegazette.com 1/20/2009 — This week in the history of the Iraq war :
January 13, 1993: With Iraqi missile sites still operational south of the 32d parallel, and Iraqi troops making repeated forays across the newly demarcated border with Kuwait, President Bush orders ...
'So what?'
washingtonmonthly.com 12/15/2008 — 'SO WHAT?'.... I'd like to think those responsible for the war in Iraq would know not to take a lackadaisical attitude towards the consequences of that war. If only that were true. In an interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz...
Deltoid: The Iraq war - A humanitarian disaster
scienceblogs.com 11/25/2008 — Iraq Family Health Survey , conducted by the Iraqi government and the World Health Organization, found that there were about 400,000 excess deaths in Iraq up to June 2006 associated with the invasion. The second Lancet survey conducted by researchers ...
Meanwhile, Back in Iraq
corner.nationalreview.com 12/22/2008 — The number of daily attacks in Iraq has fallen almost 95% from levels a year ago. Also of note, the murder rate in Iraq in November was 0.9 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the rate from before Saddam was overthrown. For those keeping score, the ...
Victory in Iraq Day–22 November 2008
lifeingaltsgulch.wordpress.com 11/18/2008 — Blogger Zombie has taken upon itself to do what our current President should have done.
Declare Victory.
We have enforced the UN mandate. We have deposed, tried, and executed Saddam Hussein and brought justice to his henchman. We ended Iraq’s ...
Victory In Iraq Day
confederateyankee.mu.nu 11/25/2008 — The Iraq Wars are over, and we have won. Let me say that again. WE HAVE WON THE IRAQ WARS. And yes, I do mean to use the plural, as we have, along with our allies, won three intertwined...
This week in Iraq War History
mudvillegazette.com 12/11/2008 — December 10, 1996: The oil-for-food program begins operations as oil flows from Iraq for the first time since 1990. (Food shipments to Iraq would not begin until March, 1997.) Estimates of the Iraqi death toll resulting from UN sanctions between 1990 ...
CIA Agents Confirm: Al Queda WAS In Iraq in Before Invasion
floppingaces.net 11/13/2008 — Eclipsed by the election campaignining, this story slipped under the radar. Much has been said about the invasion of Iraq. Often there are claims that there were no weapons of mass destruction and no ties to Al Queda. In fact, most of the WMD claims ...
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