For your quick reading, I've listed key statistics about the Iraq War, taken primarily from data analyzed by various think tanks, including The Brookings Institution's Iraq Index, and from mainstream media sources. ... Iraq War Facts, Results & Statistics at Oct 12, 2009...
usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.... usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm
And war is always good for those companies which manufacture weapons (in collusion with governments). For such companies the death and destruction which results is of no concern. In this case there is an extra bonus: the profits to be made from contracts to "reconstruct" Iraq.
www.serendipity.li/iraqwar.htm www.serendipity.li/iraqwar.htm
          Iraq war is the most expensive in terms of human and material costs in the US history after the Vietnam War. The official statistics released by the US Congressional Budget Office on 4 December shows that the Administration had spent some US $350 billion for military operation in Iraq.
www.iran-press-service.com/ips/articles-2008/april-2008... www.iran-press-service.com/ips/articles-2008/april-2008/results-of-us-invasion-of-iraq.shtml
"Which comes closer to your view about the Iraq war? (1) The U.S. was right to remove Saddam Hussein and stay in Iraq to help rebuild a new government there. (2) The U.S. was right to remove Saddam Hussein but then should have left Iraq soon after that.
www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm
The director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Scott Redd, tells NBC News that, “in the short term,” the Iraq war “probably” has created a “giant recruiting tool” for terrorists.
thinkprogress.org/2007/10/16/us-not-%E2%80%98tactically... thinkprogress.org/2007/10/16/us-not-%E2%80%98tactically%E2%80%99-safer-as-a-result-of-iraq-war/
America's Best Political Newsletter. ... 7. The U.S. government has made accusations against Syria pertaining to the results of the Iraq war. Specifically, it has warned Syria not to harbor Iraqis that it has targeted (on the basis of what it depicts as internationally recognized legal grounds) for prosecution.
www.counterpunch.org/leupp04292003.html
Here are portions of an article appearing recently in the Ottawa Citizen, just as Bush was beginning his war against Iraq. ... If President Bush decides to ignore it by starting a pre-emptive war against Iraq, where will it leave the United States spiritually, economically and politically?
www.progress.org/2003/cuomo01.htm
THE PRESIDENT, CONGRESS, AND THE WAR IN IRAQ; May 18-23, 2007; The battle between George W. Bush and Congress over an Iraq war funding bill comes at a time when America’s assessment of the war has never been worse. ... The results were then weighted in proportion to the racial composition of the adult population in the U.S.
www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/CBSNews_poll_iraq_052407.pdf www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/CBSNews_poll_iraq_052407.pdf
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www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070118/news_1e18surv... www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070118/news_1e18survey1.html
A year after the war in Iraq, discontent with America and its policies has intensified rather than diminished. Opinion of the United States in France and Germany is at least as negative now as at the war's conclusion, and British views are decidedly more critical.
people-press.org/report/206/a-year-after-iraq-war people-press.org/report/206/a-year-after-iraq-war