Bush wiil not apologize for starting an illegal war in Iraq

[ProSense]

Bush still sees no reason to apologise

By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Published: 20 March 2006

If anyone was looking for even the slightest hint of second thoughts from those led the US into Iraq, they would have been sorely disappointed on the third anniversary of a war that is eating into America's soul and that may well reshape its political landscape.

More sacrifice would be required, but "our goal is nothing less than complete victory", President George Bush declared in his weekly radio address yesterday.

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The psychological cost is unquantifiable, but enormous. For a minority the war has brought bereavement and personal sadness. Half of all Americans know someone who has served in Iraq; some 10 per cent of them had a relative or friend who had been killed or wounded there, according to a poll by USA Today.

Mr Bush's place in history will be determined by his decision to invade. Back in March 2003, his approval ratings stood at 70 per cent. Now they have dropped to less than 40 per cent. Two-thirds of the public believes the country is "on the wrong track". Iraq sweeps every other issue off the table.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article352386.ece

The insider report:

In London, Mr Allawi told BBC 2's Sunday AM programme: "We are losing each day, as an average, 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1734902,00.html?gusrc=rss

Reality denied by Gen. Casey:

Posted on Sun, Mar. 19, 2006

Deaths continue as Iraq war enters year 4

STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - As the Iraq war entered its fourth year, nearly 1,500 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers on Sunday sought to root out insurgents from farming villages an hour's drive north of the capital, and at least 35 people died in insurgent and sectarian violence nationwide.

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The 133,000 American troops on the ground inside Iraq was nearly a third more than took part in the campaign to oust Saddam Hussein that began in the early hours of March 20, 2003.

At least 2,314 U.S. military personnel have died in the war, which is estimated to have cost $200 billion to $250 billion so far. President Bush says about 30,000 Iraqis have been killed, while others put the toll far higher.

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"Personally don't believe, one, that we're there now; two, that civil war is imminent; and, three, that it is inevitable that it will happen," Gen. George Casey, the U.S. commander in Iraq, said in an interview with Fox television.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/14138966.htm

Evil Kissinger's heart goes out to Bush:

"My heart goes out to the president because I've served in an administration that faced a very divided country in a very difficult set of circumstances," Kissinger told CNN, without invoking America's military intervention in Vietnam by name.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060319/en_afp/iraqwaranniversary_060319211601

[ProSense]

1. They actually believe the numbers Bus give them?

At least 2,314 U.S. military personnel have died in the war, which is estimated to have cost $200 billion to $250 billion so far. President Bush says about 30,000 Iraqis have been killed, while others put the toll far higher.

Try $500 billion for the war and more than 100,000 Iraqis killed, and add in the more than 17,000 U.S. troops wounded.