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American Soldiers Are Dying In Iraq: For What ?

Update : CNN (2nd Nov. 2240 GMT) The 17 military deaths Sunday brought to 139 the number of U.S. combat fatalities since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1, according to the U.S. military.

There is no reliable source for Iraqi civilian or combatant casualty figures, either during the period of major combat or after May 1.

The Associated Press reported an estimated 3,240 civilian Iraqi deaths between March 20 and April 20, but the AP reported that the figure was based on records of only HALF of Iraq's hospitals and the actual number was thought to be significantly higher.

From BBC (2nd November 2003):

F ALLUJA, Iraq, Nov. 2 — An American Chinook helicopter crashed here today, killing and wounding more than two dozen American soldiers. It was the deadliest single incident for Americans since the United States invaded Iraq in March.

The helicopter was hit by a missile and exploded in midair, several witnesses in this farming community 40 miles west of Baghdad said, in an area where anti-American sentiment is high. A second explosion followed when the helicopter hit the ground, they said. Another missile narrowly missed a second Chinook, the witnesses said. Their accounts matched descriptions of a shoulder fired missile.

It is the highest number of casualties suffered by the US-led coalition in a single incident since Saddam Hussein was toppled in April 2003.

Attacks on coalition troops have intensified in the past week, reaching an average of more than 30 a day.

The basis for America to go to war in Iraq was that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and he was amassing nuclear capability.

And these must be destroyed. Otherwise, Iraq was threatening the national security of the United States and world peace.

So the US, with a band of other coalition forces, invaded Iraq. The Saddam regime was toppled.

BUT NO weapons of mass destruction is found. The nuclear capability claim is now proven fraudulent.

The invasion of Iraq by US-led Coalition is generally viewed as based on a LIE.
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A dangerous LIE championed by the "Neocons". These "Neocons", prominent among them is the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, and others who wield power and influence in the Bush Administration.

None of them (Bush, Cheney, DeLay, Wolfowitz, Perle, Fleischer, Rice, Barnes, Hannity, Kristol, Lieberman, and Rove), who pushed for the war in Iraq, had themselves been to war.
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And now, American soldiers are dying in Iraq. In truth, all for a LIE concocted in Washington and London.

Read Here: “Bring Us Home Now! We’re dying for oil and corporate greed!”

Read HERE Peter Mansbridge's article " Tuning Out The Dead: American Soldiers Keep Dying In Iraq -But No One Seems To Want To Hear That"

Read Here: Ivan Eland's article " Cut Losses - Leave Iraq"

Read Here Nathaniel Amos' article " With American soldiers dying every day in Iraq, it's time to get our troops home"

Read Here: Pat Buchanan' s article " Why are we still here?"

Read HERE Alex Massie's article " US must stay for long haul, says Bush "

THE REAL WINNERS OF THE IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN WAR ?

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