When U.S. proconsul Paul Bremer left Baghdad with what one of his own assistants called “his tail between his legs,” he left behind a still-occupied country and a government completely reliant economically, militarily and politically on U.S. backing. The American taxpayers’ tab for this quagmire is steadily mounting, as are the many other human, environmental and other costs of this… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pagesI read the article ‘Counting the Costs’ on this site. I was attemping to find an archive where I can find evidence of polls taken. I want see that half of the military isn’t planning on reenlisting, and actual statistics for of things I keep hearing about. Such as: the idea that Selective Services is recruiting people to help them out at an abnormally high rate, what evidence there is for the idea that the US could have a draft--with EVIDENCE to prove it. I keep hearing these things, but can’t find anything about them except on partisan websites, and even articles like ‘Counting the Costs’ don’t properly cite their sources. My head is spinning.
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