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War on Terror: 62,006 People Killed, 4.5 Million Refugees

Tags: War on Terror + the Independent + 9/11 + George W. Bush + Iraq

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Posted by V 2 years 2 months ago; via truthout.org/docs_2006/09...

Five years later, according the British newspaper, the Independent, the Bush administration's Global War on Terror has resulted in, at a minimum, 20 times the deaths of 9/11; at a maximum, 60 times. It has "directly killed a minimum of 62,006 people, created 4.5 million refugees and cost the US more than then the sum needed to pay off the debts of every poor nation on earth. If estimates of other, unquantified, deaths -- of insurgents, the Iraq military during the 2003 invasion, those not recorded individually by Western media, and those dying...

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Bush setting up next terror speech

Tags: George W. Bush + war-on-terror + speech + terrorism + Islam

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Posted by V 2 years 3 months ago; via news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060...

The White House is bringing representatives from countries that have suffered terrorist attacks to populate the audience at
President Bush's next war-on-terror speech, to emphasize the global nature of the enemy.

Bush often ticks off a list of attacks from recent years, such as those in London, Madrid, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, to demonstrate that the world should be united against Islamic militants who share a purpose if not a common network.

In a speech Thursday that launched a new offensive to build support for the Iraq war...

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