US military casualties from the occupation of Iraq have been more than twice the number most Americans have been led to believe because of an extraordinarily high number of accidents, suicides and other non-combat deaths in the ranks that have gone largely unreported in the media.

It’s a certainty that the idea of “regime change” for Baghdad was first hustled in Zionist Israel. A 1996 paper concocted by Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser, entitled, “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Security the Realm,” called for, inter alia, “the removal of Saddam Hussein and the installation of a Hashemite monarchy in Baghdad.”
The “realm” Perle, Feith and Wurmser were seeking to secure, however, wasn’t America’s, but Israel’s! The study was intended as a blueprint for the then-upcoming Likud-dominated government of Netanyahu.

I feared my role with the reconstruction council was sliding from what I had originally envisioned - working with allies in a democratic fashion - to collaborating with occupying forces.”

And steadfast Bush holds firm, lecturing us about national security, while the former co-chair of the intelligence committee that released the report tells us that the 28-pages essentially do not compromise national security.

Asked by the Wall Street Journal to explain this surreal pronouncement, one member of the NBER's committee on economic cycles would say only that it had decided to "demote" unemployment as a factor in its calculations.

The Bush administration has suspended all military assistance to 35 countries because they refuse to pledge to give American citizens immunity before the International Criminal Courts.