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A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.
For the first time, the extent to which some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding has been researched by the BBC's Panorama using US and Iraqi government sources.
A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.
The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies.
While George Bush remains in the White House, it is unlikely the gagging orders will be...
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PETer 1 year 16 days ago
Dick Cheney in a 1994 interview explaining how invading Iraq would lead to a "quagmire".
He makes several extremely salient and visionary points:
1. No one would support a US invasion, least of all important Arab allies. This would make it an unpopular American occupation;
2. In the absence of a strong central government, Iraq would essentially go to pieces, splintering along religious and ethnic lines; and
3. It would, to use his word, become a quagmire.
I guess someone could explain this away with some 9/11...
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President Bush would have ordered an invasion of Iraq even if the CIA had told him that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.
In the build-up to the U.S. invasion in 2003, Bush and other administration leaders argued that Saddam should be removed from power because he had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and was actively seeking to build a nuclear weapon.
Subsequent investigations concluded that he did not have such weapons, and in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the...
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