"... My death list . The latest entry is my ex-girlfriend....Since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, I had kept a list of every relative or friend killed in violence. As of late 2006, I counted 124 deaths....No. 125 was my father."

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"5 reasons to be cynical: 1) Chilcot himself... 2) Recent history... 3) The composition of the committee... 4) The media... 5) Teflon Tony... the lies, cover-ups, war crimes, torture, etc ... never seem to stick to Tony Blair."

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Puppet Maliki speeches ignore threats, discharges, forced migration, mass kidnappings, assassinations of Iraqi academics, destruction of educational institutions & archaeological sites, the looting of Iraqi musea...

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The two most authoritative estimates of violent deaths because of the war are more than 600,000 through 2006 (according to the Lancet medical journal study) and more than one million through 2007 (ORB).

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PETITION for shoe-throwing, Iraqi journalist HERO

PETITIONS are circulating for the well-being of courageous Iraqi journalist HERO, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at George W Bush in Baghdad, Occupied Iraq. Please sign them.

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The article reports a recent lecture by US economics Nobel laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia) on the $3 trillion accrual cost of the Iraq War and the shattered lives of surviving US veterans.

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A legal brief peace from activists, lawyers, academics and politicians sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging former prime minister John Howard committed a war crime by sending troops to Iraq.

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5 years and 3 months after the coalition invasion began, Australia is withdrawing 550 combat troops from Iraq , leaving about 1000 Australian forces in the region with navy, air force and at US Green Zone HQ.

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