[PatrickHenry]

Originally posted by PatrickHenry, http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0826-07.htm 1. "Miscalculation in Iraq" has claimed nearly a thousand Americans lives. Many thousand shattered US bodies and lives. Iraq civilians are dead and wounded. 2. War destabilized the region and undercut US security; Iraq now a recruiting ground for Islamic terrorists. 3. Cost of war so far: nearly 130 billion dollars. Borrowed money that your grandchildren will still be repaying with interest. http://costofwar.com/ 4. Public opinions around the world: US is on nearly everyones blacklist. 5. Gas prices up due to instability. Corporate friends of Bush/Cheney reaping wonderful profits in Iraq. So there's a little fraud... 6. Authoritarians, not democracy in power in Iraq. 7. Prisoner mistreatment has shown American ideals of fairness are hollow. 8. Recovery of the economy? Too bad it doesn't create Jobs http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatu...rowth_testimony 9. Budget surplus projections...have become a sea of red ink. http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/20...et/surplus.html 10. Bush thinks jobs leaving America is good: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04041/271362.stm 11. Tax cuts for the rich: increases income inequality that was already too severe. 12. Bush prescription drug benefit? Benefits Big Pharma, due to take effect 2006, drugs would be cheaper from Canada, but FDA sides with the drug industry to disallow such importation. Result: high drug prices, guaranteed profit to Pharma 13. No Child Left Behind: don't make me laugh. Unfunded mandate. 14. The environment: a nightmare record of siding with polluters and resource looters. Average new car fuel economy: down. 15. USA PATRIOT Act is a war on freedom in the guise of a war on terror. I hope this list helps President Bush if anyone ever asks again if he can think of a mistake he made...

Quoting myself, heh. But there is a new study by the Lancet, a British medical journal, which was mentioned on MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6354133/

A survey of deaths in Iraqi households estimates that as many as 100,000 more people may have died throughout the country in the 18 months after the U.S. invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war. <snip> The survey indicated violence accounted for most of the extra deaths seen since the invasion, and air strikes from coalition forces caused most of the violent deaths, the researchers wrote in the British-based journal. “Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children,” they said.