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       News: 10 Iraqis, 2 U.S. Soldiers Die for The Lie, Iraq Death is Everywhere, The Growing Paranoia of Cheney

AP
10 Iraqis, 2 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq

Excerpt:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of people waiting outside a heavily guarded court building in Baghdad on Thursday, killing 10 Iraqis and wounding 52, police said. Two U.S. soldiers also died in a roadside bomb attack.
Police first said the attack near the court was caused by a car bomb targeting a police convoy, but later said it was caused by a man with explosives hidden under his clothing.
The roadside bomb that killed the two U.S. Army soldiers exploded about two hours later in south-central Baghdad, the military said.
The attack raised to at least 2,409 the number of members of the U.S. military who have died since the beginning of the war in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.





Truthout
Death in Iraq. It is relentless and incessant.


Excerpt:

    Know what it is like when scores of your fellow citizens are being killed every
single day while the world proceeds unheedingly on? As a journalist I've had
but a taste of that poison during my eight months in Iraq. Try it out: be an
Iraqi for a day, into your fourth year of being occupied, humiliated, tortured
and killed, doing all you can just to survive.
    All communication with my Iraqi friends is punctuated by and smattered with
their use of the words "praying," "God," and "Insha'allah"
(God willing). Perhaps there is need to invoke something else altogether?

And all the dead air is alive. With the smell of
America's God.
- Harold Pinter, "War With Iraq"

Read it and weep:

Purdum reports that Cheney travels with a chemical-biological suit at all times. When he gave his friend Robin West and his twin children a ride to the White House a couple of years ago, West commented on the fact that Cheney’s motorcade varied its daily path. “And he said, ‘Yeah, we take different routes so that “The Jackal” can’t get me,’” West tells Purdum. “And then there was this big duffel bag in the middle of the backseat, and I said, ‘What’s that? It’s not very roomy in here.’ And [Cheney] said, ‘No, because it’s a chemical-biological suit,’ and he looked at it and said, ‘Robin, there’s only one. You lose.’”

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