Simple arithmatic

It's all in the numbers.

"President Bush's latest milestone in the war on terror has been predictably ignored in the mainstream media. Bush, who is now in the fifth year of his presidency, has served 1727 days in office. With the death toll in Iraq currently at 1873 servicemen, Bush can now boast that at least one American has died for every day he's been in office; a sobering tribute to a man who wants to be remembered 'a war president.'"
- Mike Whitney http://informationclearinghouse.info/article10026.htm

More journalists have been killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003 than during the 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Sunday. http://snipurl.com/hap7
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BRITISH Army officers in Iraq are being handed stashes of up to £100,000 in cash for "operational expenses" without formal controls on how it is spent. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-523-1753874-523,00.html
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"Terror" war is 4th most expensive U.S. war. By the end of September the military cost of the war on terror, which began shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with the invasion of Afghanistan, will top $250 billion.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article10032.htm
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Weapons: A Trillion-Dollar Trade. Military expenditure by the United States makes up 47% of the world total. http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=75551
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