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Do you know this about Iraq & the Iraqi war?

Suicide in the US military: For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2010, 468 active duty and reserve troops committed suicide while 462 died in combat, marking the second year in a row that more US soldiers killed themselves than died at war. 1, 2, 3 & 4

Widespread Trafficking Of Iraqi Women And Girls Thanks To The Iraq War: “The US-led war and the chaos it has generated; the growing insecurity and lawlessness; corruption of authorities; the upsurge in religious extremism; economic hardship; marriage pressures; gender based violence and recurrent discrimination suffered by women; kidnappings of girls and women; the impunity of perpetrators of crimes, especially those against women; and the development of new technologies associated with the globalisation of the sex industry.” 1 & 2

The US Role in Iraq’s Sectarian Violence “Not only has the United States failed to bring a functional democracy to Iraq, neither U.S. forces nor the U.S.-backed Iraqi government in Baghdad have been able to provide the Iraqi people with basic security. This has led many ordinary citizens to turn to extremist sectarian groups for protection, further undermining the Bush administration’s insistence that American forces must remain in Iraq in order to prevent a civil war. Top analysts in the CIA and State Department, as well as large numbers of Middle East experts, warned that a U.S. invasion of Iraq could result in a violent ethnic and sectarian conflict. Even some of the war’s intellectual architects acknowledged as much: In a 1997 paper, prior to becoming major figures in the Bush foreign policy team, David Wurmser, Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith predicted that a post-Saddam Iraq would likely be “ripped apart” by sectarianism and other cleavages but called on the United States to “expedite” such a collapse anyway.As a result, the tendency in the United States to blame “sectarian conflict” and “long-simmering hatreds” for the Sunni-Shi’ite violence in Iraq is, in effect, blaming the victim.” 1

Why Did the US Invade Iraq? “The official reasons – the threat posed to the US and its allies by Saddam Hussein’s alleged programs of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the possibility that he would pass along those arms to al-Qaeda – have long since been discarded by the overwhelming weight of the evidence, or, more precisely, the lack of evidence that such a threat ever existed.” 1, 2, 3, But Iraq had no WMD! 4.

Also check this out How to Avoid a Return to Iraq, Casualties in Iraq , Iraq’s return to normality & 1 Million Dead in Iraq? 6 Reasons the Media Hide the True Human Toll of War — And Why We Let Them.

And for those who would like to think the war and occupation of Iraq is over… http://www.salon.com/2011/12/17/no_the_u_s_is_not_leaving_iraq/