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Bill Moyer - The cost of Iraq!!

Some are losing their lives, some are losing their relatives, some are loosing their

land, some are losing their wealth, some are losing their limbs, some are losing their

dignity, everybody is losing, but a gang/cabal of people is winning.



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 The Cost of War 

 By Bill Moyers 

 Bill Moyers Journal 



 Friday 11 May 2007 



 TRANSCRIPT: 




 Finally, at the beginning of its fifth year, let's take a look at the cost of this

war. 



 Bob Woodruff (ABC): "It was an impressive sight from the deck of the Abraham

Lincoln, this war time president soaring overhead." 



 Cynthia Bowers (CBS): "The White House has sent a clear signal. It is pulling out

all the stops, choreographing this finale to the War." 




 Bill Moyers: Yes, the war was over, the winner was George W. Bush, hailed by the

press as a conquering hero. 



 Chris Matthews (Hardball): "He won the war, he was an effective commander, everybody

recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics." 



 Lou Dobbs (CNN): "He looked like alternately Commander in Chief, rock star, movie

star and one of the guys." 




 Tom Brokaw (NBC): "Here, now, is the President of the United States as he walks

across the deck with 2000 sailors and officers on board for his address to the nation on

the recently completed war in Iraq." 



 President George W. Bush: "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle

of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." 



 Bill Moyers: By this point - 140 U.S. troops had died during the mission. 




 But back in Iraq, reality was writing the script. 



 Every day since that choreographed victory lap, violent act has followed violent

act. 



 This April was the cruelest month of the year. The deadliest so far. 



 Even the supposedly protected heart of American power in Baghdad, The Green Zone,


was shattered by an al Qaeda attack. Al Qaeda was not a presence in Iraq before the

mission but it has a firm foothold there now. 



 Entering its fifth year, the war's costs are soaring so fast the Web site

costofwar.com uses a non-stop digital counter to keep up with the spending. In today's

dollars, it's projected to become the most expensive war in recent history - reaching

nearly one-trillion dollars. 



 According to the National Priorities Project, the money spent on the war so far


could have provided America: 



* 1.8 million new teachers. 

* Over 20 million college scholarships. 

* Health insurance for over 60 million children. 

* Or nearly 4 million new housing units.



 But no price tag can be put on the lost human lives. 



 Our government hasn't wanted us to see the human cost of the war. 




 It took grieving families and friends and veterans to create their own memorials

like this one - crosses all in a row - on a California beach. 



 The grieving continues online: 



 Mother (Sitting Near Headstone): He was my only child. This is something he gave me

when he was 12 years old for Valentine's Day. 




 Sister: He wasn't just my brother. He was our father's best friend, he was our

mother's baby boy. 



 Sister: My brother was a loving guy. A great brother, a great son, a great dad. 



 Mother: My angel was given to me on October 7, 1980. And he remains my angel to this

day. 



 Bill Moyers: The number of soldiers killed has reached 3,372 this week. 




 Medic: We'll just got some oxygen on you, okay? 



 Bill Moyers: The number wounded - over 25,000 - And the number of limbs blown off

and amputated - 1500 so far. And over five thousand head and brain injuries. 



 And we can never reckon the unseen scars that last a lifetime. 



 Sgt. Ty Ziegel suffered the loss of an eye, a fractured skull and burns over much of


his body from the attack of a suicide bomber. Over 30 operations later he returned to

civilian life and married his high school sweetheart, Renee. 



 As he gets on with his life, his unit is going back for a third tour of duty -

including his 21-year-old brother Zach. 



 As for Iraqis, it's been difficult to get an accurate count of the dead and wounded.





 Estimates range up to three-quarters of a million killed. 




 Caught in the cross-fire between Sunnis and Shiites, hunted down by death squads or

cut down on their way to school work or the market, many just disappear into the debris.





 Some two million have fled the country running for their lives. 



 Try to imagine what it's like to live with this. 



 Try to imagine what it's like to live in this. 




 Even when we catch a glimpse of their blackened bodies. 



 Even when their stricken eyes stare back. 



 They remain nameless to us - collateral damage - gone in a flash. 



 Forty years ago, we escalated the war in Vietnam again and again despite the absence

of a winning strategy. 




 We're doing it again. 



 President George W. Bush: America will change our strategy to help the Iraqis carry

out their campaign to put down sectarian violence - and bring security to the people of

Baghdad. This will require increasing American force levels. So I have committed more

than 20,000 additional American troops to Iraq. 



 Bill Moyers: The President is also calling up an additional 13,000 National


Guardsmen next year despite the hardships on their families, communities and jobs. Nor

will they be available during that time for emergency duty here at home. And the army

has extended the tour of troops in Iraq to 15 months. 



 As Democrats and Republicans in Washington wrangle over a strategy, there is

speculation that no matter what agreement they reach ... American troops will be in Iraq

at least a decade to come. 



 We are not finished with the costs of this war. 




 We'll be back next week. I'm Bill Moyers. 



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This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing critique of the

criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive Branch of the United States Government

to carry out operations which are clearly contrary to the wishes and values of the

American people. The ability to exercise this power with impunity is facilitated by the

National Security Act of 1947. The thrust of the exposé is the Iran-Contra arms and

drug-running operations which flooded the streets of our nation with crack cocaine. The

significance of the documentary is probably greater today in 2007 than it was when it


was made. We now have a situation in which these same forces have committed the most

egregious terrorist attack on US soil and have declared a fraudulent so-called "War on

Terror". The ruling regime in the US who have conducted the invasions of Afghanistan and

Iraq, are now banging the war drum against Iran. We have the PATRIOT act which has

stripped us of many of our basic civil rights justified by the terror of 9/11 which is

their own doing.



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This 1987 documentary by Bill Moyers tells the story of America's fraudulent "war on

terror" and reveals how subversion of the rule of law created and armed our own created


enemies. The staggering costs, as you will see, have been immeasurable*. The federal

insurrection continues to this day. *This much we can measure: Back when American kids

were being drafted to kill Vietnamese.…



 

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"The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral

Commission - founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bilderberger Group,

have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the

next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against

citizens." -- Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, Ph.D., former German defense ministry official

and advisor to former NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner



"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans

freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight." -- JFK




"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." Henry

Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in The Final Days, 1976 



The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. 

"[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most

significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force

the United States to change it's perceptions." -- Henry Kissenger, World Affairs Council

Press Conference, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel , April 19th 1994 




The individual is handicapped coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous, he

cannot believe it exists. -- J. Edgar Hoover



"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to

concentrate on." --- George W. Bush ..."Sarah, if the American people had ever known the

truth about what we Bushs have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the

streets and lynched." George Bush Sr. 1992



"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that

important. It's not our priority." - GW Bush, March 13, 2002 




It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid

those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are

compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy

and yours.- Dalai Lama 



 



I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And

because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.


What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do ~~

Edward Everett Hale



 



Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's Rape Of Iraq - At Least 655,000 + +

http://tinyurl.com/usq4x 



Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's Rape

Of Iraq 3,017


http://icasualties.org/oif/ 



The Rape of Iraq Costs and America lost its soul too besides going bankrupt,

financially and morally! !

$357,490,957,418



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