www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-ir...dUSBRE92D0PG20130314
The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said.
The war has killed at least 134,000 Iraqi civilians and may have contributed to the deaths of as many as four times that number, according to the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
The situation today:
www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/us...aq-weapons-shipments
US steps up Iraq weapons shipments
Joe Biden, the US vice-president, calls Iraqi PM to voice support for fight against insurgents in Anbar province
The US is accelerating its deliveries of military equipment to Iraq to help it fight Islamic militants who have overrun Falluja and entrenched themselves in other parts of the country, the White House has announced.
Joe Biden, the US vice-president, spoke with the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, on Monday to express support for Iraq's fight against al-Qaida-linked militants, a message Biden repeated in another call with Osama al-Nujaifi, speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, the White House said.
Hey, at least they're still trading with the dollar.
content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998512,00.html
Europe's dream of promoting the euro as a competitor to the U.S. dollar may get a boost from SADDAM HUSSEIN. Iraq says that from now on, it wants payments for its oil in euros, despite the fact that the battered European currency unit, which used to be worth quite a bit more than $1, has dropped to about 82[cents]. Iraq says it will no longer accept dollars for oil because it does not want to deal "in the currency of the enemy."
